Which I do think is what might happen, in the recollection of a dream — or rather in the attempt to recollect a dream. Strictly speaking there might not be any recollection, but rather a sort of gathering of associated images into a retroactive coherence; which itself represents an instinct or effort, on the part of the dreamer, to ‘understand’, or make meaning out of, that which may be, ultimately, an inexplicable and random neurological event.