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Message: [QUOTE="NineLions, post: 697683, member: 13483"] Odd to you, but even odder to someone who doesn't play poker I'll bet. :) The subconscious is capable of making all kinds of connections, identifying similarities, and re-interpreting things. For example a lot of dreams get based on one issue or situation that the dream replays but with substitute actors or locations. I'm not saying that's what happens in your dreams, but just that I think that my subconscious recognised a situation that I've faced before. A situation with interaction, a challenge, probably some low levels of aggression, and so it called up my programming for the situation; evaluate the situation, the risk/reward, the options, and a conscious choose to fold. It's more common in extreme trauma situations; the rape victim who becomes afraid of any underground parking lot, or the child of an alcoholic abusive parent who becomes afraid of any person who has been drinking. [/QUOTE]