The unconscious mind is an inner wilderness hosting impersonal, dream-roaming presences

Evidence

There are more things in mind, in the imagination, than “you” can keep track of—thoughts, memories, images, angers, delights, rise unbidden. The depths of mind, the unconscious, are our inner wilderness areas, and that is where a bobcat is right now. I do not mean personal bobcats in personal psyches, but the bobcat that roams from dream to dream. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 439

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the chapter’s core metaphor: the unconscious as inner wilderness that escapes personal control—directly relevant to her attention-as-world-constitution argument.
• XREF: Echoes Deep Listening’s invitation to the vast unconscious/sonic totality and the bioregional idea of unbidden ecological presences. — connects to: The mind is constitutively active and reaches outward even while dreaming — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 153; A mountain can grow in the mind into a living personality — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 103