Deconstructing Someone Else's Dream

So I am standing outside an apartment building with Jason Segel while he is dreaming. A series of images ensue which I explain to him. First, there is his "sex symbol," a woman who I recognize from television or the big screen but whose name I can't recall at the moment. I explain to him, rather simply, "This is your sex symbol." Then a middle aged woman with short curly (dyed) blondish hair comes out a door of the building and before she says anything, I say: "This is your representation of a Scottish Presbyterian Maternal background." She proceeds to lecture him about how his sex symbol will interfere in plans for a future political career.

Segel, someone I can't remember, and I proceed inside his apartment, through a living room, and into the bedroom. As we are standing there, I say to him, "See the carpet in your room?" He obliges by looking down. The 'carpet' is grass. "The carpet in your room," I say, "is completely overgrown compared to the rest of your house. Is this the way you want your private space to be?" He looks at me a little flabbergasted. I feed no morale imperative to convince him that his private space is out of order, just a desire to provoke him into questioning the idea.

When one deconstructs someone else's dream, inside their own dream, they can rest assured that a semester of grad school has paid off...