Everything depends on your perspective. One view is that desire is born from memory and this happens within, not beyond consciousness. Any sense of psychological or linear time, such as beginning and end, is also within consciousness. As such, dreams do not begin and end. They are in perpetual motion, connected with events in a continual flow. You are connected with all of this. You are also it.
Another view is that dreams are a state of mind in the 'here and now.' If you view the mind as a series of states in transition, then you detach from the notion of a localized dream. You realize states of mind invite you to merge experience with experiencer. Its all now.