What's the Difference Between Your Imagination and Unconscious Mind?
April 12th, 2023 at 5:05PMThink of everything you could possibly know that you're not thinking of right this moment, that's your subconscious. Imagination is merely consciously altering what you know. If dreams are subconscious imagination, they're random as fuck, especially when you consider everything you subconsciously know, so I don't see the significance of even making the distinction beyond the identification itself.
Recent or traumatic experience is the key to understanding dreams, I think. Personally, I've always considered them meaningless, however, because they've never corresponded to reality. I think of myself as a fiction writer, though, and I've honed my creative thinking skills accordingly since I was very young. Most people haven't, so I can understand -- quite easily -- how that shit can get out of one's control. Imagination without a purpose? Yikes.