Though on the surface this is daydreaming, perhaps Chuang-tze did not mean that this vision be realized. Rather it is just the affirmation in traditional Chinese thought that man and beast both have life, and the hope to achieve "unconsciousness of the line between the world and myself."
表面看來這有些一廂情願，因為鳥兒沒見到人，大概就先嚇跑了；想與猛獸同遊，無異捋虎須。莊子可能也無意自己的「幻想」成真；這只是中國文人思想，確視動物與人是同具生命，而希望達到「物我合一」境界的表白。