I am not a very visual person. My brain is just not wired that way. It should translate into me taking more pictures but that’s a different story for another day. Everyone’s brain is wired differently but across all those different configurations no one is wired to access 100% of their brains. If someone was wired that way the possibilities would be limitless (anyone see that movie?).

Since I am not a visual person I rarely dream and when I do I only remember clips and phases with many details overlooked. I don’t always see faces, images are not completely processed, the background is not flushed out, etc. On the rare occasion that I do dream and it is one that I retain a good portion of I am always amazed at the power of the subconscious.

For example the other night I dreamt I was buying a birthday card for my grandmother’s 50^th birthday party. Now I was not alive when either of my grandmother’s turned 50 but here I was in the store attempting to buy a card. I can still see the aisle (a few more days and I won’t) and there were tons of people in the store buying cards. I saw faces and even almost got into an altercation with another guy buying cards. Now being the sentimental person that I am I wanted the perfect card to make her laugh and cry. I searched through at least six cards. Each card I picked up had a distinct design on the front and distinct words contained within. Two of the cards I picked up didn’t have enough words or I didn’t like the first couple lines so I put them back. The two in the middle said Nana or Grandma on them and I never called her that. The last two were lengthy. My memory fails me now on what they exactly said but they were my feelings in some poetry form.

Where in the hell did all of that come from? I can barely describe places I have been or describe someone but my subconscious is able to create an entire aisle of cards and people shopping. It takes me hours to write a blog entry but my subconscious can whip up beautiful poetry? What the hell, we should be more conscious of our subconscious.

With that being said, I am a firm believer in “sleeping on it.” There have been several times in my life when I have slept on something and in my dream answered a question or was guided in the right direction. I’ve read that the subconscious is a vast library of all your experiences and emotions. We use experiences and emotions when faced with decisions; it is just not fair that we only have access to a limited portion of those tools.

If we had access to more of them I think the possibilities would be limitless. I am not talking about telepathy or being able to do crazy math problems I am just talking about being able to remember where you saw something before or how you felt at a similar time in your life; access to information that could help you when faced with a problem. I love to be informed and it irritates me that I am only able to access my subconscious through uncontrollable dreaming. Someone needs to get me a library card to my subconscious because my dreams just aren’t cutting it.