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I have two thoughts today, one about dreams and one about the subconscious. What is the use of dreams? For me dreams reflect on my recent conscious or subconscious concerns. For example, my sister and I share a car, so lately I've been hoping that when I am a senior and she is a freshman I will get the car. I also recently had a dream that she got a new car and gave me the old one. It is pretty clear where that dream came from. What is the academic use of dreams? I'm not sure that there is one. Everybody's dreams are different and have different personal meanings. Apart from a few disciplines such as creative writing and psychology, I don't really think our dreams are useful in an academic context.

What is the use of the subconscious? The subconscious is more than just dreams and I think it is very helpful in thinking about cultural evolution. So much of culture is part of the subconscious and so thinking about the subconscious could be very helpful when thinking about cultural evolution.