The dreamer being so accepting of the strange logic of dreams shows that consciousness is fully at home in dreaming. This means that if consciousness is the basic fact out of which experience if built, it does not require memory beyond the shortest term, nor does it require reality-testing, or equivalently that its world be coherent relative to displacements of space, time and point of view, or other symmetries. The dreamer looms large but is not entirely indispensable, there can be self-effacing moments in dreams. That consciousness as freed of constraints in dreams almost always envelops a dreamer, or dream character, in self-consciousness seems to be a natural predilection, and these concomitant dreamers always have something stolidly infantile, or stubbornly naive, about them. From night-time dreams we can be left with the sense that the dream assembles itself out of scattered pieces of perceptual and kinaesthetic debris, that it arises from the action of the same mechanism, integral to consciousness, as that which leads us to discern pictures in random patterns. Again, in night-time dreaming, consciousness seem to be ignited out of a concentration of tension above a certain threshold in a way that lends credibility to the idea that the function of dreams is to keep us asleep. There is a different kind of dream experience that we can have when awake and fall into day-dreaming. Here the transition is sudden, the dream seems to have already been going on before we entered into it. Although the portal into the day-dream seemed to have been a coincidence of a waking thought and a dream image or event, the latter somehow symbolising or allegorising the former, the brief dream thread, if we can remember it as we suddenly "come to", bears no thematic relation to anything in waking life, seems utterly disconnected and nonsensical.  None of this should be any surprise, embodied consciousness for all its disingenuousness must be a highly complex and layered performance, and the obstacles to more than glimpsing all that goes on backstage is a part of its success.