Admittedly, the dream-ego and the waking-ego have a special “twin” relationship; they are shadows of each other, as Hades is the brother of Zeus. But the “I” in the dream is no secret stage director (Schopenhauer) who wrote the play he acts in, no self-portrait photographer taking his own snapshot from below, nor are the wants fulfilled in a dream the ego’s wishes. The dream is not “mine,” but the psyche’s, and the dream-ego merely plays one of the roles in the theater, subjected to what the “others” want, subject to the necessities staged by the dream."
A secret stage director would be nice.
There's a point in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow where Slothrop, the protagonist, realizes that, much worse than the paranoia he's been suffering, there is no one watching, that he's alone Out Here.
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