ABSTRACT

Attempting to solve a mystery promises an encounter with the unknown and the unexpected. A crime of passion executed with imagination and violence is emotionally compelling. The unexpected death, however grotesque, is spellbinding. Dreams are so vital to survival that almost all of us create them in clusters, four or five times every night. The deep unconscious mental system, which dominates dream expressions, has its own way of processing information. The dream is primarily a product of the deep unconscious system. The problem is that conscious waking thought and experience do not allow the dream's realm of experience to enter its own accustomed domain. When perceptions and fantasies are highly charged and unbearable, the conscious mind doesn't register them at all. Such information is relegated mentally for processing in a deeply buried unconscious system to which the conscious mind has no access.