title: Exhuming the Unconscious: Deciphering Between Dreams and Reality
author: Liz R Proctor
description: Liz grew up on a small farm in Upstate, NY. She is the youngest of 5 siblings. She enjoys writing, art, hiking, bodybuilding, cooking, dancing, and music. She likes EBM, Synthpop, 80's, and other genres of music including bagpipes and Classical music. Her inspiration to write came from her father who encouraged her to be the best of who she could be. Her Grandfather on her father's side was also a writer and a couple songs put to music in the early 1900's. Liz hopes to travel to Europe (Scotland and Britain) one day to find out more about her heritage.
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  “We are only falsehood, duplicity, and contradiction; we both conceal and
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  ## ELIZA
  
  
  I’M SCREAMING AS I wake up. The sound is sucked away as soon as I open my
  eyes, but it leaves a mark on my brain, a quickly fading handprint in wet
  sand. My throat is raw. My head is pounding. I struggle to look around, but
  all