Is There Any Experiential Component to Memory Consolidation?

I want to go back to the distinction you made quite naturally t the beginning, whether there the dream experience itself is doing something. And that that, i don't think we know. There's a remaining question, why should there be any experiential component to this memory consolidation? It seems like the brain should be able to consolidate memories in the dark without there being any experience of it. Most of what it does in the dark, or certainly seems to, is to sayha, you're not conscious at any point of the maintenance it's doing. O or any of the other things it's doing. So why we should have these bizarre experiences every night, and whether whether that is