Yeah, What He Said!

"You know you're in trouble when you're own imagination starts to punish you." -Eoin Colfer

Dreams are such an inspiration to me, and I've really gotten most of my stories and creativity from them. The subconscious is such an interesting thing. I might personally dispute the Iceberg model slightly, I believe we know ourselves (or at least that we can know) better than what they tell us, but I do believe that the subconscious is almost its own entity. That is, as much of an entity as it can be while still being you. It sounds confusing I know, fortunately that's not part of the point I'm trying to make.

I had an experience once where I guess you could say my imagination was beginning to punish me, or at least my subconscious. There was this girl I liked for a really long time, but we ended up just friends and we just ended up not talking as much as usual (yeah, I'll take responsibility there) but then I suddenly had this dream with her in it and me (because I am an intolerable flirt both in real life AND in my dreams) went to go talk to her and trying to pick it up as though it hadn't been a few months since we had spoken. Even though it was my subconscious voicing her, still, best line ever that totally left me speechless:

"Well, look who is all blue eyes and bright smiles."

This was proceeded by a little speech that really cut into me about how I hadn't said anything for a month and now I was acting like it was all fine. I would quote it word for word but I seem to have misplaced the paper with the original dream on it, but anyhow, this phrase really stuck out in my mind. First of all, I don't have blue eyes, but it was just such a funny line and when I woke up I was like "wow" because I really felt as though someone had just cut into me and let loose. I honestly cannot put it better than Eoin Colfer: "You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts to punish you."

Thank you Eoin Colfer, not only for your literary genius but for your very true words. This man is amazing people. But really, I just thought it was something fun to think about how important it is that our subconscious and our conscious line up. I'm only one person, but who I am and how I act can be entirely different. I want to line up the pieces and just be me. As such, I think there is something to learn from dreams. True sometimes it might just be the brain letting out its bottled up craziness in very strange ways, but sometimes its a message as well. I think there's still a lot I need to learn about me, and I'll listen if it'll make me a better person.