Purposive action is very much a feature of dreams, to the degree that our memory of the purely sensory content in dreams is always as a component of some purposive action of the dreamer. Purposes are very simple, the scenes that make sense of them, that enable them to act, are complex. This is why dreams, even though they may be hard to recall, unpack into complex narratives. Intentions of the dreamer flow into each other without any rational order or feeling of a need for such an order, it is enough that the current of intention deflects. Writers of dream-like fiction, like Kafka and Kavan have seized upon the way that a minimal announcement of intended purpose suffices to create and elaborate a scene, and that the description of the corresponding action contains the entire scene. Another related characteristic of dream events is that they dissolve into nothing when the right sort of shock is applied to them, but until then they have a peculiar persistence, an ability to subsume accidents and random happenings, say, the noise in the brain, and to continue along their course with a strange fatality. This fatality is spun out of the self who is the dreamer, the core of the dreamer, but unlike the dreamer possesses an interior, an archaeology. And yet it is just this which pops when the dream ends. It is not that the chain of purposes runs out of new contents, but that the self which backs them up comes undone. This self is like a knot or a vortex. It can only bring forth a dream world which is consonant with its existence, which reinforces it. It evolves out of a conjunction of forces which takes on the character of a positive feedback loop, setting up a trompe l'oeil interiority. This bias towards positive feedback is a concomitant of the nature described as pure freedom, so that even dream fatality, dream constraint, feels free and self-chosen on some deeper level. Negative feedback, or active resistance would seem to imply the pre-existence of another self, a different vortex competing for the same energies. In the case of the dreamer this is perhaps no more than the waking self.