So it turns out that you can discover things in your subconscious. Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading at work on Opera revenues and attendance trends, etc. and it literally bores me to death. After about 20 seconds I'll lose focus and just stare blankly at the screen. The surprising thing, however, is that I'll suddenly see a word out of the corner of my eye that really doesn't fit with the article that I'm reading.
For instance, the word "joker" jumped out at me. I scanned the article regarding personnel expenses to make sure I wasn't seeing things, and it turned out that, in fact, i was. there was no "joker" to be found. No juxtaposed words in combination even resemble said word. Sometimes it's different words, names of people, names of places. Most of the stuff that I find are often obvious and easily interpreted, ie. joker = me wanting to watch dark knight. but other things are less obvious and I have to struggle to understand where they come from. Like one time, I found "haemophiliac". WERID, HUH?
of course I don't look very much into this. I believe that the stuff i see mirrors (to an extent) the things that dwell in my subconscious, but it's more fun and games than anything. It's sad though, when I see some words that don't want to be seeing because they're things that I don't want to be thinking about. Jerk words. But then I'll get something like "candycane" and it makes everything better. haha.
