If consciousness and unconsciousness are so easy to slip in and out of, then how are we ever to know, truthfully, which is which? Dreams sometimes feel so vivid and real, it's difficult to comprehend that they weren't, in fact, reality.
Although, if this is the case, how are we to know that the dream is truly a dream and not reality?
I've been reading 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' and it has triggered some thoughts. If a writer constructs a scene so that when a character enters a room and instantly 'knows' something they couldn't have possibly known from simply looking, (the scene in which this thought occurred to me being when Alice enters the room full of doors and knows before trying to open them, that they are all locked.)
This, without making it too explicit so as to cause obviousness or a jolting break in the otherwise melodious flow of the writing, provides the reader with the idea of a dream sequence- perhaps without their even realising it.
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