<1> When existing imaginatively within the dream space, the individual is immersed in the illusion of the dream, in believing in it "as if it were real," and the individual has no awareness of being in physical space in an awake or conscious manner. In the overlap between physical and dream space, the individual moves imaginatively between an awareness of being in physical space and a sense of dreaming, and merges and confuses these states at times. An interesting corollary to this merged state of awareness is when an individual exists imaginatively in a drug-induced state vis-a-vis physical space, and the individual conflates an awareness of being in physical space with the heightened and distinct consciousness which may accompany the effects of a drug.

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