When the movie is switched off, all the lights go off, you think the screen is also gone. That's why you can't appreciate the screen. Waking and dreaming, there's no movie playing. Therefore neither the movie is screen seen, nor the screen is appreciated. What does athman consciousness do for experience? It manifests. It enables all experience withou. But what does experience of objects, those bjects, what do they do for pure consciousness? It manifests pure consciousness. Going on means anwe way of speaking, nothing's going on. It's there. In the background.
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.