In a dream you live in Rishikesh and your name is Ramesh — memory is produced, not retrieved

So very often I take this example that suppose you went to sleep tonight and in the sleep you had a dream that you were living in Harizwar or Rishikesh or something. And you were an Indian man and somebody asked you your name. You see, you say, my name is Ramesh. You will not say, no, no, sorry, sir, my dream just started. I don't know what my name is. So although it just started, we are able to still refer to that which our mind calls memory from the apparent past and say, okay, have you always lived in Rishikesh? Yes, yes, I've always lived on this street. You see, so in consciousness, consciousness has the ability, even at the start, very beginning of the dream to have a full story about itself. And if it needs references in terms of what has actually happened, it has the ability to produce imagery which can convey that this is from the past. You see, what is memory? Memory never shows up from the past, it only appears in the future. And yet we call it the past, you see.