Would you say anything other that the atmosphere of those dreams seems potentially useful?

[Perfectly possible that the answer is no, he's sure - maybe everything there is just symbolism for the basic point they're already discussing. Then again, with such a large group to draw from, it's not impossible that someone's got something useful in there.

But even if he'd rather get the business of the day over with first -]

- ah, not to distract from your own question completely, of course, but business does come before pleasure.