Did you just say "sausage"? This week, every word counts in our concluding adventure in the unconscious forest of terrible things. You wanted some dream talk, and as the great philosopher Gabrielle noted, dreams can come true. Before exploring what seems like the utterly feral subjectivity of dream interpretation, we explore Carl Rogers' theory that all science is subjective, and then Freud's theory that all words freely associated with dreams are to some degree objective facts about the unconscious. In this light, dream interpretation is no more subjective than the theory of gravity. I, for one, have no idea if there are evil spirits in the core of the Earth, sucking things away from me, but I choose not to believe this because I want to seem wonderfully clever. Freud and Jung had different perspectives on the significance of dreams, and for once we give Freud the spotlight, starting with his patient who carried a giant pair of testicles on her head.

What are the differences between simple and complex dreams? How do we perceive the world through value judgments? How many words does a picture paint? That's a trick question since there are no words in the unconscious. Don't bother doing your hair for this episode, we'll be turning your world upside down regardless. This is the deepest, darkest part of the forest, and yet just on the other side is the light of consciousness; WAKE UP!

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