She must have been southern? That's something my mom would say too

So imagine watching tv. If there's no sound you only have half the experience. You can sort of deduce what is going on, but you might miss some of the meaning. When you have sound, but no picture it is the same. You can hear generally what's going on, but you miss the nuances of what comes from seeing it play out.

The messages our subconscious gives us in dreams or psychosis are like that. Its like we can hear them, but we can't really understand what they mean because our perception is not right when we are in that state. If we take them literally, we might do ourselves or someone else damage.

When we are stable, we don't really get the kinds of inspired messages that come through when we are psychotic. So we can see more clearly, but it doesn't have that same magical quality. Some of the data is missing.

So... When we are psychotic, we can hear clearly, but we need to carry insight with us because we cannot see clearly. When we try to interpret what we experience, we get confused and dork it up.... So if we instead just write it down, wait for it to pass, we can then interpret what we receive or think while psychotic later when we are stable. We can 'see' better then and figure out what it meant.

You don't analyze a dream while in it. You do that when you wake up. Same concept.