A speculative essay proposing that the human subconscious mind can understand language but, while it can communicate with the sleeping mind via images in dreams, it can only communicate to an individual’s awake mind via what appear to the individual as a random recall of a musical song in working memory. Remarkable lyrics of a given song can thus be used by the subconscious as a means to communicate to the awake mind. A theory of subconscious communication from Cormac McCarthy in his Kekule’ Problem essay and the research of Jeff Hawkins and Numenta Corporation showing the human brain storing sequences of patterns including songs, are used to support the proposal.
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