Waking consciousness is a continual interpreting, reading the word and the body and the self in other terms, with other goals, but always with a residue, with paths not taken, with alien possibilities left unexplored. The reality experienced is this infinite open-endedness and path-dependence - or say that experience is a reduction of a path that extends from and towards the unknown. Only in dreams and in fictions does there ever appear a perfect passage to a transformed state.