“When the dream appears openly absurd, when it contains an obvious paradox in its content, it is so of purpose. ” -Sigmund Freud
Dreams are an unconscious trail mix composed of unconfronted issues established in the daytime. In a trail mix, all the ingredients are thrown together and mixed up into one body, thus creating an assortment of complementary flavors that are easily packaged and transported; dreams too follow this commingling process. In dreams, separate events of waking life are shuffled around to become new narratives that confront the issues and package them all into a single storyline. Although these narratives are relative to waking life and are only sensible in the unconscious, dreams allow a different sort of clarity to the…show more content… They show up in the cave Nitnit first climbs in, in the tunnel Nitnit journeys through to get to the sarah-esk creature after hours in the hive, and When Nitnit runs off to find the extra comic books. In the first appearance of skulls only a single head that holds the face of Nitnit himself. Obvious in its persona, the skull directly refers to Doug’s own fear of death and forces Doug to confront his Mortality from the very beginning. The next time the skulls show up is on the road on the way to retrieve comic books for the creature that resembles Sarah, Doug’s ex girlfriend and the source of much regret in Doug’s life. On this road Nitnit meets a vendor selling sugar skulls who is very adamant about Nitnit purchasing one. When Nitnit does give in and purchases a sugar skull, it reads “I was once you” on the forehead. Again this is directed toward Doug himself and his fear of repeating someone else’s death. Despite the Skull itself not being that of Nitnit’s, it is definitely that of a human and meant to be singularly for Doug as it also resembles that of this son’s Halloween mask. This ties Doug directly into the process of the life cycle by referring to his father’s death, Doug’s own mortality, and the continuation of this mortality spread throughout the generations through the reference to Doug’s son. In a more morbid scene, skulls line the pathway into the Sarah-esk creatures room when Doug sneaks in after dark. To reach the creature after dark, doug must travel through a room filled with skulls that line the walls. Unlike the other skulls, which were singular, this room has none that refer directly to Doug but rather a sort of mental journey he may have had to overcome when he was made aware of Sarah’s past abortions. None of the skulls look like Doug and none seem to really have a reaction connected to them besides Doug’s