geordief
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I have a correspondent that I feel uncomfortable in requizzing on his/her reply. Is any one able to settle the (liguistic or semantic?) question?
I cannot decide whether his/her language is too unclear (loads of negatives and also a double negative) or is my understanding too limited to see the wood for the trees?
(Q 1) Secondly , does the dream state have its own unconscious?
I ask that question because I had a dream where I had forgotten the address of somebody and was (in this dream) walking through the town and hey presto I bumped into someone who said "oh by the way the number of that house is 27)
To me (when I awoke) it seemed that that was a little too convenient and I wonder did my dream invent that meeting just to elicit the address?
(A 1) The dreaming state is the unconscious; therefore, it isn't unlikely to be unconsciously aware of information that is not uppermost in our conscious memory.
(Q 2) did you slip in an extra negative into that sentence by mistake?
Was it meant to read "isn't likely " instead of "isn't unlikely" ?
Otherwise it breaks down to "is likely" doesn't it?
(A 2) It is likely that you are unconsciously aware of more information than your are consciously; therefore, to dream about information you have consciously forgotten is not unusual. I hope this helps.
It should be easy to Google this exchange if you need the rest of the context
I cannot decide whether his/her language is too unclear (loads of negatives and also a double negative) or is my understanding too limited to see the wood for the trees?
(Q 1) Secondly , does the dream state have its own unconscious?
I ask that question because I had a dream where I had forgotten the address of somebody and was (in this dream) walking through the town and hey presto I bumped into someone who said "oh by the way the number of that house is 27)
To me (when I awoke) it seemed that that was a little too convenient and I wonder did my dream invent that meeting just to elicit the address?
(A 1) The dreaming state is the unconscious; therefore, it isn't unlikely to be unconsciously aware of information that is not uppermost in our conscious memory.
(Q 2) did you slip in an extra negative into that sentence by mistake?
Was it meant to read "isn't likely " instead of "isn't unlikely" ?
Otherwise it breaks down to "is likely" doesn't it?
(A 2) It is likely that you are unconsciously aware of more information than your are consciously; therefore, to dream about information you have consciously forgotten is not unusual. I hope this helps.
It should be easy to Google this exchange if you need the rest of the context