Sublime, Subliminal, Subconscious

The peculiarity of the common use of the word 'sublime' can be easily gleaned from comparing it with the nearly identical 'subliminal'.  For, while the latter accurately parses as 'beneath the threshold of consciousness', the former, including Kant's use of it, means 'above the threshold of consciousness', for no obvious good reason.  Now, Nietzsche's Dionysian principle is the precursor of Freud's Id, and, hence, of the Subconscious.  So, insofar as the Dionysian experience can be characterized as "sublime", the latter is more etymologically accurate than is Kant's and the common use of the term.