While Zeizel's doppelgänger is an intentional reflection of himself, consciousness researcher Ryan Hurd believes that all elements of the dream are reflections of the dreamer.
Goldman described her speech to The Huffington Post as "a self-reflection" and "flow of consciousness".
"When you think of all these other cities, particularly L.A., where at the end of some of these games they go out and destroy the city, burn down buildings and turn over cars," Mr. Kerik said, in a stream-of-consciousness reflection.
But perhaps we should look at pop music less as a product of individual artistry than as a reflection of the collective consciousness of the audience.
While many of her books are individually hilarious, cumulatively they add up to something more: a fun-house-mirror reflection of the American consciousness industry, warts, blind spots and all.
Look at the transformation in the Middle East as a clear reflection of our collective consciousness.
The false ego... which is like a reflection of our true consciousness within matter, is the covering over the soul first supplied by material nature and is the juncture between our spiritual identity and our material existence.
One cannot discount the possibility however that Brazil might become more of a progressive player at some point in future: in the first round of the country's recent presidential election Green Party candidate Marina Silva garnered a whopping 19% of the vote, a clear reflection of rising environmental consciousness.
His new form of venting appears to be through stream-of-consciousness reflections that he jots in a notebook and that the Communist Party newspapers dutifully print on the front page as scoops.
The narrator's stream-of-consciousness reflections are searing and radical, and she slowly awakens to the realisation that she must shed relations with men and seek a woman-centred life.
