Dreaming may not be about integrating new memories or processing the day’s events; it is, rather, a necessary technique for ensuring a healthy waking consciousness, one that can navigate possible experiences. Dreams allow the traversal of unexplored or lesser known parts of the statespace, which refers to a vast abstract space wherein the different degrees of freedom are sensations: hot-to-cold, distant-to-close, bright-to-dark; and also proprioception, smells and tastes, and even representations. All manner of things which you can feel, classify, perceive. An entire life will unfold as an exploration of this space, moving through a cathedral so multitudinous in its dimensions it would require transfinite mathematics to even begin to define.