Had a really weird dream earlier in which I became lucid. I decided to (re)try a method I read about where you ask to speak to your subconscious. Someone, anyone, please tell me if this makes any sense to you.

I'm not going to post the whole dream because.. reasons. The setting and characters shifted a lot and I can't remember it all very well. But anyway. At one point, I was in a school, and I ended up in the school library with my little sister. I realized I was dreaming, everything became really clear all of the sudden and I just knew I had control and would keep it this time. A lot of times I have problems with losing lucidity, in a different lucid dream I'd had months before I tried asking my subconscious why I was having so much trouble staying lucid/gaining complete control. It had told me "Because you're not ready". So this time I knew I wanted to ask about that. I turned to my sister, smiled, and announced that it was a dream. The library was very busy, I said out loud something like "I would like to speak with my subconscious" and started looking around, wondering which of the people would start talking to me. An African American woman began to turn around and I just knew it would be her. We made eye contact and I asked "Are you my subconscious?". She told me yes. I then said something along the lines of "Before I had asked about why I've been having such trouble gaining control over my dreams, and I was told it's because I'm not ready. Can you tell me why that is?".
Now, this is where it gets weird. The lady started to answer me, but then it got very noisy in the library and I couldn't hear the full answer! (The library wasn't exactly quiet before fyi but as she was speaking, the noise picked up) She was saying "It is because you have a spirit-" and then I couldn't hear, I think someone closeby started using an electric pencil sharpener lol. When the noise died down a moment later, I asked "A spirit what?". She started to speak again, but still I couldn't hear what she said after the word spirit. Then my sister, who was next to me the whole time, told me "She said spirit tomato".
Of course, I'd never heard of such a thing, I was very confused and asked "What is a spirit tomato?". At that point, I could feel the dream.. I don't know how to explain it. It wasn't like it was getting hazy (that's usually what happens), but the colors were going dull? I felt half awake and not fully in the dream. I said "Oh no, I'm waking up! I don't want to wake up yet" hoping I could regain the clarity, but I ended up waking up anyway, I think the setting shifted again before I woke up though. Grr!

Does anybody have insight for me? Ever experienced anything like this or heard of a "spirit tomato"? =| I kind of get the feeling that tomato wasn't the last part of what my subconscious was supposedly saying. It all just felt like something was trying to keep me from communicating with my subconscious, and since my "sister" was the one that told me that's what was said, perhaps that wasn't the real message.

Why can't I exchange more than a couple of sentences with my subconscious? D= It's very frustrating.