Marauding Nettles

How fast and furious our brain process the physical world is amazing, the tiny details in a story that register in our consciousness, like the talking trees of the deep woods in the Chronicles of Narnia. I've been listening to the audio recording of "The Silver Chair" in my car and been enjoying the enchanted joy ride to the workplace.

And then i question: are our dreams a product of a make-believe world? As reality gets filtered by the unconscious, our imagination create and weave a fantastic version that more or less falls on our favor. These associations can be very baffling but there seems to be a conscious effort or cause that makes us part of the experience, as if we can command and control the tilt of the balance to our side.

"Marauding Nettles" - for me to actually remember these words after i woke up and for them to stick in my memory like a gum in one's hair i can readily attribute to the Narnia recording.

However, i'm not sure for a fact that said words have "per se" been mentioned by C.S. lewis in the series, but i've been wondering, ever since i open my eyes that morning, how the colors (or black/white) and motions of the dream were left out and the only thing that stuck are those words.

I've heard of people dreaming magic numbers and winning the lottery. Where do numbers, letters and words, cryptic or obvious, fall in the category of dream interpretation?

I imagine this is one of Jung's archetype where there is an alternate story behind it and is waiting to be told.

Marauding Nettles - i will never forget those words.