Symbolism's

While we sleep at night our minds are organizing and stowing the information we gathered during the day.  I think everyone knows or has heard this much, however after having studied dream analysis as well as the science behind sleep and dreams I was somewhat surprised to find that those weird dreams we can remember are actually the visual manifestation of this information being stored.  Which means our computer or logical side of our brains (the brain untainted by emotion) sees and uses  these symbols to understand and categorize the world as we know it.
Knowing this it is no wonder why and how languages and speech is such an intricate part of our lives and the human condition.  It is in this thought and knowledge that has led me to become so interested in heraldry and symbolism and how they have been used over time.
 In Heraldry everything depicted whether it be a color, symbol, animal, shape, will all work in symbiosis to paint a picture of whom  the coat or arms or banner was originally made for basically telling a deeper story of the individual than anything some historian could tell you about that individual.  This using of small and seemingly insignificant symbols to cover and envelope large portions of knowledge fascinates me.  This in and of itself bears many similarities to my chosen profession of psychology which teaches techniques of reading what a person does, says, or acts as a symbol of themselves as a whole.  For instance the over use of the word "I" when talking to a friend or lover  can be an indicator of how committed the person is in the relationship, and or how selfish the individuals thoughts are underneath what they try to hide from others.  It is very cryptic in nature, and probably explains why I tend to be very cryptic in everything I write.  Peeling back looking at the pieces of anything can be very telling and is the basis or many professions, for example chemistry, science, and biology does this with the physical world, math does it with tendencies and patterns(though that would be a very shallow compared to what math can actually tell us), and the social sciences must do that with the mind, much like heraldry pulling apart the individual pieces and finding how they match together to make the person is as a whole.