Brains work temporarily from real thought-question processes into dream thought-answer processes, so that consciousness develops successfully, so dreaming is a learning process about oneself. This is a pluralistic explanation of thought and consciousness in our nervous system. Thoughts, true or false, are continously present there, except for moments of no thought. Thoughts contain consciousness, that is the knowing part, which contain logic and feelings, of our nervous system. Logic prove what is true or false. Thoughts influence feelings, so there could be decisions dependent on if the feeling is good or bad, eg. lowered body temperature decreases entrophy, which means higher order, while hightened temperature increase entrophy, which means lowered order. (Second law of termodynamics is not applicable, since humans or animals are open systems.)
Monistically thoughts are emergent material order.