The Importance of Listening to a Story

i see my reading or my listening as an exercise in attentiveness and so ultimately yes i'm enjoying the story. Even though i don't want to drift away i do want to be close to the condition of daydreaming the unconscious mind because that is where we want to be with literature. That is where we understand symbolism and metaphor if we try to focus with all our power on a particular symbol very often meaning eludes us meaning is on the periphery of consciousness, he says.