I can tell you right off the bat, that the notion I have, though more than likely not original, is of such bizarre magnitude, that surely it must have sprung from years of heavy drug abuse, but I assure you, it was generated by a sober mind.

A while ago, I had a night full of dreams so wild and vivid, it really got me to think more deeply about the power of the human mind. In one, I clearly remember being in a lake I frequent in my life during the summer, and a shark I distinguished as being a Great White came out from the deep and into the shallows. I wrestled with the shark for a bit and then I grabbed a knife, or some kind of remotely sharp object, and carved something VERY cryptic, and VERY specific into this animal's head.

This is what it read: "C;i . i"
Only the dot between the i's was in the middle like a multiplication dot.

Now, this is where it gets interesting. What IF, this string of ASCII gibberish wasn't just that? What if this ACTUALLY meant something to my dream self, something vastly important to both of us only he's figured it out first and is trying to tell me something?...I mean, if you get a letter in the mail, big deal, but if you get yourself a god damn SHARK that has been carved into, something like that must be important!

Now, I consider myself a man of science, and I know that the subconscious mind is nothing more than the collage of memories and sensory input from an entire lifetime of living and observation. But what if these pieces of information were like pieces of a puzzle that could be put together in a different way, achieving a far different result? I don't think it sounds too far fetched given all kinds of other insane, organic things observed in this universe.

What do you think? Am I just looking too deep? Desperate to make something out of nothing? OR could there perhaps be something to this theory?