The unconscious process does not reveal any knowledge of objects in a world outside the dream; nor does it reveal any knowledge of an interior dreamer, somewhere behind the scene. The construct of a dreamer and a world in which he awakens is a construction of the conscious process. The latent thoughts upon which the dream process works are products of a secondary process; they can only be discovered upon awakening.

Freud refers to the dream itself, the manifest dream, as wish- fulfillment. The dream process fulfills a wish that could not be fulfilled during the preceeding day, out in the bright light of thought. There are wishes that are fobidden in reality, but fulfilled in the dream; the proof lies sleeping in a bed of thought. A sleeping thinker is inundated by the waters of the unconscious process and even in his/her waking there are breaches in the dike.

Thought is preoccupied with defense, with protecting the home-land, the borders. Thought depends upon certain wishes remaining perpetually unfulfilled. The body which is the immune system depends upon its distinction from the unconscious process. As human experience, the distinction is continuously subject to being swamped in wish-fulfillment. Prepare yourself, gird your loins, against the fulfillment of your desire.