I always thought the surreal writer was kind of like the prisoner, where none of the events taking place in the cell made any sense, but as a whole each item was a symbol. True the dream could be bad, but an enchantment fantasy could also be surreal. "Alice in Wonderland" was surreal, but the political overtones were the symbols that drove it not the subconscious, "Gulliver's Travels" was another political reflection of the surreal. The key is the symbolic language does it connect with the introverse or is it a reflection of outside events?