I believe a majority of people have a dream. Source: my decades in higher education working with families and students - literally everyone has a dream about their future.
Well, for one thing, most people don't go through higher education.
Also, I did a Bs+Ms in CS and never had a plan along the way. I just wanted to have fun before I have to go work at some job that I'm probably not going to be too happy about. I'd say majority of people I studied with were like that.
or support/supportive people around them - at best.
Instead, there are a lot of people who dont want to see others do better than them. From personal experience, directly & indirectly, some of the closest people that we are taught to trust are the very people who shut those dreams down, or at the very least, give support as long as it doesnt help raise anyone 'above' themselves. How many accept that and regret it at the end of life when those people have long since disappeared. Stepping outsides the norms of ones social bubble/society is far more risky than conforming to ones 'place' in the pecking order.
I would say actively have a dream. I'm talking about the parents of students and prospective students as well as parents and family of kids who had no intention of going into higher education at all.
All of the parents, once you got them to open up, had dreams about how their life would/could turn out.
Very few ever had a plan on how to make that, but more of a hopeful 'one day' sort of attitude.
I believe a majority of people have a dream. Source: my decades in higher education working with families and students - literally everyone has a dream about their future.
What they don't have is a plan.