# The subconscious is weird **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-subconscious-is-weird/492328 "2009-04-07T23:52:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-subconscious-is-weird/492328/1 "2009-04-07T23:52:16Z")
Case in point: A few weeks ago, I was trying to remember the name of a certain bigoted Fundy wackjob. I remembered that his was as crazy as Jack Chick, but less funny, and that he regularly got pitted here. A name floated up from the back of my mind: Mike. Or maybe Michael. Didn’t help. I was still completely blanking out. Then, later the name I’m looking for suddenly pops up: Fred Phelps. The God-Hates-Fags guy. So why was I thinking Mike… oh. _Michael_ Phelps is the swimmer. Phred is the nutjob with the signs. Somehow, even though I couldn’t remember the name, I still made a connection to the Phelps part. Case in point 2: So last night, I told a figment of my imagination that it had a dirty mind. I was dreaming, and in this dream, someone mentioned that a certain structure was rather phallic. I looked up. All right, I said to myself, it is long and tall, and it has a conical top. But really, it’s just a twelve-foot tall bright-orange inflatable tower, and you’d have to have sex on the mind to think of genitalia when you looked at it. Obviously, this other person was a pervert. It certaintly hadn’t occurred to me to see it that way before the other guy mentioned it. So basically, I was telling myself off for being disgusting, because _I_ would never have come up with that interpretation myself. The subconscious is weird.