Insufficient Reality

Borges claims that the fact of dreams produces an anxiety towards the real itself; if the dream is real, then the real may as well be a dream; dreams and what we call reality are merely nested fractal moments of the larger cosmic dream. The other less metaphysical way to say this is that human consciousness is flimsy; composed of a material so fine that its very gauziness renders all in dream; we knit the world together by our senses five and this knitted thing called awareness is easily torn, swamped, sodden, tattered and deluded. An even more speculative way of saying this is that the real itself is flimsy, insufficient and ultimately unknowable; much like a dream. Buddhism, certain quantum theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Laruelle hold this position.