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Your questions imply that the conscious is the dominant faculty and the unconscious is trying to communicate with it, which is backwards. The unconscious is driving and the conscious is a PR agent sitting in the passenger seat, making up a story about where the car is headed.

11:47 PM · Aug 25, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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Why does it imply dominance? Agree about conscious mind being more like a PR agent than the dominant force many think of it as. But seems to me that regardless of which part is dominant or subordinate they still need to communicate

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It depends what we mean by the terms we’re using. I think the premise—that the unconscious is trying to communicate with the conscious—is problematic. There’s no true separation, and the image of sending messages back and forth is, to me, a misconception, an illusion.

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Therefore, a dream is not a conversation, it’s epiphenomenal residue the conscious may or may not pick up on, like the faraway murmurs of a wild animal—just because you hear it doesn’t mean it’s trying to talk to you. That doesn’t, however, mean its murmurs are meaningless.