Lance Morrow's 'Daydreams Of What You' D Rather Be

In the article Daydreams of What You’d Rather Be by Lance Morrow; a Harvard graduate who is a contributor to Time, proposes the idea that there is a distinct relationship in-between the self and the “anti-self”. He exposes this idea throughout by using different examples that involve numerous people, and also by using different comparisons to make his writing more relatable and more easily understood. The methods that Morrow uses to support the claims that he is making and to help uncover that message that is being emphasized in the article are essential to the meaning and the understanding. In Daydreams of What You’d Rather Be, Lance Morrow validates his main idea that underneath every person there is an “anti-self” that is just begging to be let out; by using examples of different people and situations, but also by using different comparisons and going as far as to explaining his true thoughts on this person that everyone has inside of them.

The very first word of the entire article is the name of a person, and this is a

common theme throughout. Various different people who all had one thing in common, they were all experts and at the top in whatever field that they were involved in. Kierkegaard is the first of the many mentioned, Morrow uses him to show that even though Kierkegaard was a famous philosopher of his time, he once confided in his journal that he wished to be to be a police spy, to be something else (Morrow par. 10). He always brings up Richard Nixon who was a president of the United States of America and switches what he would have like to have been with what Kierkegaard had wished he had been. Morrow goes on to explain that this inner us stays hidden most of our lives and often do not appear until after we have passed like Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (Morrow par.6). Morrow later on says that inner working and the inner thoughts inside of us have been thought to predict the soul of person next life and the person that they will become.
Another item that lance Morrow uses in his writing to convey the main message is the use of comparisons throughout his writing.

An example of this would be when he compared the man who shot Ronald Reagan, who was John W. Hinckley Jr. with his inner self. The inner self over took Hinckley Jr. and he could not even control himself against the monster, the “anti-self” (Morrow par.8). Another example that is used to express the meaning of the work is when both the bad and the good inner self are explained, by saying, “Daydreams of possibility enlarge the mind. They are also haunting.” (Morrow par. 9). This comparison basically is saying that, the imaginary person inside of us changes just like we do, varying from good daydreams and good happy thoughts to awful nightmares and terrible thoughts as well. The comparison of humans to their inner selves is a common comparison that is exemplified multiple times in order to uncover the author’s

message.
Finally when we are young the person inside of us is stronger and more daring, but as humans age they become wiser and the little voice in their head slowly begins to fade a little bit more and more with each and every passing moment.