it's stupid to assume that what my conscious mind is aware of at this moment is representative of my *entire* experience at this moment.
well said, and completely true. The 'dreaming' is always going on, and I think it even plays a large role in causality, and we should all become more mindful of it. Normal consiousness seems to lack something by comparison. Actually I misspoke. It lacks a lot of somethings by comparison.
Awareness and perception have to grow across the entire collective mind for there to be major breakthroughs in how we percieve. Science is one tool, but there are many others. This is definitely one of them.