When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.