The idea of the dream is not so much that you might be dreaming as that you might wake up into an entirely different reality that is even more your own than the one you know. This has become part of common currency, so that any form of the sense of reality, must incorporate this as a possibility. It is in fact equivalent to the very sense of a sense of reality, one need not have any such thing at all. At any rate it is a peculiar distortion as if it is still 'you' that wakes up, as if it can be narrated. There is no persuasion out of this, it will have to be gone through even if there is nothing to go through and no one to go.