The project is imperialistic, the incorporation of unconscious process into the conscious system, to radiate the light of consciousness into the blackness of the unconscious, until there is no blackness left, except in that tiny hole in the system. As the conscious body expands and the unconscious process shrinks, the hole of darkness draws the light into it with ever greater strength, until at that moment when the conscious system is at the apex of its power and the light goes out.

When the lights go out, when the curtain comes down, that's death, isn't it? When the light does not come back on the dreamer remains in the dream. There is no awakening, neither analyst nor analysand, neither suffering patient nor healing doctor; the disease has vanished. But the dream remains and implied within the dream process itself is the map maker, the creator of systems. Does the light go out, only to come back on again?

Our night-time dreams reveal the unconscious process to the day-time analyst. If the dreamer emerges from the dream, he/she can see the unconscious process as it appears within the light of the system. The awakened dreamer can see the unconscious process operating within the conscious system. The content of the night-time dream is from the system; it is what the dream process, the unconscious process, does to that content that is significant to an awakened dreamer. The dream process decomposes ideas into images.