Thread: (Prove Me Wrong) No One Has Literally Ever Talked to Their Subconscious. Ever.

Originally Posted by Screen

Since dreams are nothing more than environments made by your mind, and the subconscious is this largely unexplored part of your mind which plays a vital role to the creation of your dreams, doesn't it make sense to try and learn more about your subconscious? It's not like you have to debate whether it exists, and communicating with it is very possible. And yet, there's so little information on it regarding personal experiences in communicating with it.

This is why people keep a dream journal and record the symbols, associations and signs.

Originally Posted by Screen

So, please, if you can prove me wrong, please do. Or if you know a story I managed to miss, please share it. What little stories I found were far from enlightening, and frankly, just plain boring.

I'm not here to prove anybody wrong but there is plenty of inspiration out there.
Check out Ewold, Ewoid, Surrealism, etc...

If you find that 'boring' then...?

Originally Posted by Screen

I not only browsed this site, but also the Internet, and cannot--for the life of me--find one person's account of ever talking to their subconscious. What little I could find, I can condense into a few points.

Maybe it was because the Shaman, the Yogi, Nikola Tesla, Franz Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Salvador Dalí, etc. etc. never used the Internet?


The Shaman relied on Psychedelic plants to communicate with the ancestors and to bring back knowledge.

The Yogi via meditation in the attempt to reach enlightenment.

Freud and his work as a psychoanalyst, inc. free association, sexual symbolism, repression, libido, ego, etc.

Jung on the collective unconscious, archetypes, extraversion and intraversion, etc.

Red Book

In 1913, at the age of thirty-eight, Jung experienced a horrible "confrontation with the unconscious". He saw visions and heard voices. He worried at times that he was "menaced by a psychosis" or was "doing a schizophrenia". He decided that it was valuable experience and, in private, he induced hallucinations or, in his words, "active imaginations". He recorded everything he felt in small journals. Jung began to transcribe his notes into a large red leather-bound book, on which he worked intermittently for sixteen years.[13]

[13] ^ Jump up to: a b c d Corbett, Sara (16 September 2009). "The Holy Grail of the Unconscious". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-20.


Dalí - The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images. (Source: via Wikipedia.)


The subconscious language is symbolic, as in made up of pictures and metaphor. That's how the unconscious 'talks' to us.
We are all prone to using left-brain language methods and descriptions (I.e. words!)
Dreaming (and specifically) lucid dreaming gives us all a chance to interact with our inner-selves which is normally occluded.

TL;DR: I don't think your method is anything 'new.'