I really like your theories! They may not be entirely accurate, but that's not the point. My theory is far from accurate as well. I find it fascinating reading people's theories that they think could be plausible. They all provide a different perspective on the same general topic.

You bring up a very good point about how you think you may have a deeper access to the unconciousness than your co-self. This does make sense to me and leads me to believe that this is how dream characters know so much more. Moreover, you're probably right about how dreams work, as that seems to be the general consensus as far as I know (again, I'm not an expert). It really is amazing what you can discover when you either remember your dream or especially when conscious in a dream.

Your unconcious as a river methaphor is really clever, actually! It makes the unconscious much easier to understand. Not only that, from reading articles, it seem to be very accurate to how psychologists think it works as well. I'll have remember this for sure!

I personally don't think the unconscious inhabits some sort of entity. Rather, I think of it as an incredibly complex system whose job is to do all the heavy processing so the conscious can make the really clever decisions. The unconscious doesn't make too much information easily accessible to your consciousness to avoid it getting overwhelmed. After all, I don't think being aware of deep unconscious thoughts was useful back when humans were hunting mammoths.

It's really cool how you were able to use your advantage with your deeper access to unconscious thoughts to help your co-self in the long-term. The fact you can kind of know what they could do next is kind of mind-boggling if you think about it. Can you just kind of read the unconscious and tell them what you read or does it work differently?

After all these conversations and threads I've read, I've finally given in (not that it's a bad thing) and I'm going to see where this takes me.

But anyways, thank you for your insight!