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This past week of class has been particularly interesting for me. I found the topic of dreams fascinating because I tend to remember my dreams fairly clearly. Do my dreams have something to do with the unconscious? Well Freud may have argued that and it could very well be true. Maybe the dreams that I can make sense of are not a part of my unconscious, they are merely dreams, but those dreams I can't make sense of are a part of my unconscious...

Also, it was interesting to talk about Whitman trying to access the readers unconscious with his ambiguous writing. It is true that some psychological tests focused on learning more about the unconscious, involve ambiguous figures (such as the Rorschach tests). It is believed that if a figure has no apparent meaning, then the unconscious will answer the question of what is seen in the figure.

Walt Whitman's writing, at least to me, is so random or ambiguous, that the thoughts that come to my mind could be from my unconscious, or maybe not.