Question: We make a fundamental mistake when we analyze dreams; we start with the assumption that dreams are a proactive action or perhaps even a reaction. In other words, we believe that dreams are either the result of us creating them or an external stimuli creating them. We have never contemplated that dreams are what one is left with when there is thought in the absence of consciousness and external input (such as sight, sound, smell, etc). That’s why when we gradually introduce those external stimuli or even the conscious thought, the more normal the dreams get.
Something similar happens when we close our eyelids, we dont stop seeing, if we concentrate, we see abstract lucid things, because all the faculties are still working minus the valid input.