I'd expand that storytelling is not only sharing dreams, but also acts in a way as a collective psychotherapy. You let go of the events of the past day and re-a

I'd expand that storytelling is not only sharing dreams, but also acts in a way as a collective psychotherapy. You let go of the events of the past day and re-align with the hero of the story. Whatever you experienced that day, the hero (mostly) has it worse. The bad guys in stories are punished, or will be punished in the afterlife. The evening sitcoms are so popular exactly because they are safe in their predictability but offer slight variations to cover a variety of topics. At the same time, if the narrative is incomplete or stirs up emotions, it will not let you sleep well and will leave an imprint over time. If the bad guys in the stories are not punished, it remains up to you, the individual, to punish them. If you are born in a society that suffers war and you see that your people were not able to protect themselves, it would feel natural to you as a child to step in and punish the bad guys. If you hear stories of unmitigated injustice carried out against your people, you will find yourself preparing to fight. This is how radicalization works, through stories of unmitigated injustice. This is why echo chambers are so dangerous – they never offer stories of protection and redress for the perceived injustices, but only heighten the sense of danger and defenselessness, up to the point where conspiracy theories begin to seem plausible. This is why we should be mindful of what information and 'news' we consume. And this why we need stories of justice, of 'evil' being punished, now more than ever.