Thread: Subconscious awareness in non-lucid dreams?

I have been wondering about the subconscious and how aware it is in non-lucid dreams.

What I mean by that:

in lucid dreams our conscious mind becomes aware that this is a dream, but I think even in some non-lucid dreams we get signs that indicate that some part of one's mind realizes it is a dream - it's just that it is not the part of one's mind where one's consciousness is focused.

For example, if a dream character tries to persuade one unsuccessfully that it is a dream, or if one sees a sign that says "this is a dream" but does not take the hint, or as another dreamviews member, Nerq, recently dreamed a voice saying "You need to wake up" which tells me that some part of him knew this is a dream.

Also I could swear that sometimes I get metaphorical dreams: and I am sure it is not just in the post-factum interpretation, because the pieces fit too well together to be just a coincidence. For example I had this elaborate dream about a murder at a company, and I knew in hindsight that it was all about the banning of my friend at the previous online forum I belonged to - all the pieces fit that interpretation including the murder weapon, the motive. Everything was a perfect metaphor and irony woven together into a new plot that stood for something else, but made perfect sense when interpreted. I really believe that some part of my subconscious orchestrated this dream, and it was so elaborate that it would take my conscious mind quite a while to come up with such good metaphors and irony.

So I think there are signs that some part of one's subconscious is very aware even in some non-lucid dreams. And that part is definitely not the part of our mind where our conscious identity is, that part sometimes is totally clueless while another part of the mind is aware.

I find that an intriguing possibility. What do you think?