I dreamed of words, brain damage, and me, myself and I.

Like many, I've long believed that dreams are a way our subconscious comunicates with our concious. Actually, I believe that everybody has about twenty personalities, even though we only show about seven at any given time (and that we wear different personalities

around different friends but three to five perosonalities rarely are expressed to anyone but those closest to us.

Well, none of this is very scientific, but there was a study done on patients who had their corpus collusom severed. (I've probably mentioned this study before.)

Anyway, if you think of the brain halves as two computers, each programed to do certain things, you can then equate the corpus collusom to a data transfer cable, allowing our brians to proccess information (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) without overloading our sysetm. Usually.

But when this data transfer cable is severed, information does not transfere from one hemisphere to the next. That means, we can only express verybally what we hear, but not what whe see. So, the patients were if they could do any job, what they wanted.  The participants verbally expressed jobs like banker, accounted, and CEO.

 Next, they were presented with pictures. They could not say what they saw and in fact, in fact most were unawre of the pictures (because the cable that transfers that data to the verbal side of brain was severed.) However, they still chose a job from among the pictures. Jobs such as pilot, circus clown and artist.

I've always found this study interensting and ever since reading, I've hypothesized that we are essentially two people and you can see this expressed in langaue when people talk about themselves in the plural. My, myself and I being a common joke, but one that is also very apt.Another one is, "I'm of two minds." 

Have you ever stood before a menu board, wanting multiple things at one time? Have you ever wanted opisite things? Maybe an unexciting vaccation and one that involves something like zip lining.  And of course, when it comes to love, our hearts want to feel loved and our rational minds want a successful partner -- because there's a lot to be said for being able to pay the bills.

I believe that competeing urges are an expression of are perhaps our two minds arguing over what they want. Our conscious mind will usually win, because it has verbal faculty while our none verbal mind can only dream.  But I mean this litterally.  When we dream, the non-verbal part of our brain has a chance to expressess it's desires and wories, night after night if nessisary, until we pay it some attention.

It expresses life through imagines, often disjointed and strange because it cannot speak in words and is not aware of time in the same way our concious mind is. Nor can it seperate easily organize things. And yet, it can speak to us. Dreams of falling and fear can indicate that you feel overwhelmed or out of control.

(Beyond this study I mentioned, patients who have this kind of brain damage are also known to do strange things, like slap people, for which they are conciously unaware. Yes, this is a real thing.)

Anyway, recuring dreams are important but so are singular dreams. Last night, I dreamed of words. Exactly, I dreamed that a writer was talking about the value of a book versus a movie. She said that books are costly for their entertainment value because they lack the pictures and sound of a movie. I've heard this expressed by writers over the years on blogs and what not. Usually, writers say that books are to expensive for what the reader gets.

To me, this idea is intrinsically flawed, because it's based on the precieved value of pictures over text.  While, I can understand that people who don't have mind movies would say this, I will never understand writers who do.

Because it's just not true.

Anyway, my subconcious wanted me to tell you all that so, I did.