The unconscious is hardly timeless, although its time may not be linear and one-dimensional. There is always something going on in its hidden life responsive to events that originate, that is are retrospectively recognisable as originating, in waking life and that either were or were not parts of conscious waking experience, and in addition it is responsive to events that seem to belong entirely within a sphere of experience that has not passed through conscious waking experience and which might range from continuous dream narratives through some sort of hidden collective experience to outer-dimensional and untranslatable experiences. On waking you are thrown not only into the waking world and its narratives but also into whatever mood, context and affinities are left to you by the retreating unconscious life. In a sense consciousness is radically centred on the mysteriously absent pure subject or 'I', while at the same time being radically decentred in relation to another and more powerful life, that of the unconscious, with its own even more mysterious and inscrutable centre.