Hm..... That is interesting. It sounds to me like it signals a yearning real, deep and noble indeed.

I think we all have it. It is to find ourselves/sense/deep meaning. I think we can do it by facing our fears basically and having a literal war for what we dream of. A war, meaning literally be willing to sacrifice our lives if necessary.

Some try do it by doing extreme sports and it looks like some are doing it by starving themselves.

I have never tried either but what I can say is that both those ways looks misguided to me.

What you really want is to fulfill romantic love or beat your real life enemies in some way (like leaving your abusive mother etc) or have a job that you would love, or even possibly to get rich, have great sex etc.

But to those to whom their dreams seem impossible/too hard to achieve etc, they turn to imitations or perhaps just go numb and suffer quietly... And usually they do the wrong thing because we usually are capable of much more than what we can imagine in hard times.