Subconscious Mind Analysis

As Sigmund Freud’s (1915) theory stated, the conscious mind includes sensations, perceptions, memories and feeling inside of people’s current awareness. According to Martin, N. (2008), he stated out that the unconscious mind has impact on people’s behaviors and habits. People will be driven by their unconscious mind instead

As human beings, we are constructed with human emotions and mental capacity such as the unconscious and conscious state of being that facilitate our actions and decision, but can we control our mind or is it an inevitable action and thought? In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, he elaborates that it’s possible to discipline and restraint our unconscious and conscious. This book helps illustrate the complexity and serene our human minds and self-judgement that we conspire within the first seconds of any situation as we go through in our lives separately but use similar mental strategies without thinking about them.

The television series, Through the Wormhole had an episode that talked about the Subconscious of the human brain. The subconscious of the brain has long been thought of as the source of our primal fears and desires. Scientists have discovered how the subconscious makes snap decisions that protect us from harm, and that it can be trained to actually heal our bodies of disease. There was an example in the video where Morgan Freeman talked about when he was eight years old he had to memorize twelve line from a play but thought he would forget if he goes on stage in front of a big crowd. Once he got on stage, the nervousness of his body went away and recited every line in the play. This comes to show that the brain can memorize many things when it comes to reading or movement. Certain parts of the brain tend to turn off when we start on a task. Those regions of the brain become active

Our subconscious is up and running with functional instincts from the moment we are born. The conscious mind starts to develop later on and as we experience more things our belief systems start to form. Between these two parts of the mind exists the Conscious Critical Faculty. The CCF can be seen as a filter between the conscious and the

Psychodynamics is an umbrella term, specifically an approach to psychology which highlights personality through unconscious psychological processes. The underlying cause of psychodynamics is to understand why many people act in ways that may not make sense as well as to identify the relationship between unconscious motivation and conscious motivation. The psychodynamic approach is made up of different theories and therapies founded by various psychologists which focus closely on an individual’s unconscious drives, and see how these drives relate to one’s personality. The most prominent psychologists who have contributed to the psychodynamic approach include Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, and Karen Horney. Unlike the behavior approach to psychology which leans towards understanding the science behind behavior and how external factors help stimulate these behaviors, psychodynamics attempts to look into one’s mind and observe how they see the world from their unique point of view. The psychodynamic approach is the most influential approach in the field of psychology because it emphasizes how unconscious forces impact an individual’s present behavior, unlike other approaches to psychology which focus on one’s past behaviors influencing their present behavior.

Another example of our subconscious actions is implicit egotism, when people tend to like things resembling them. For instance, if somebody has the same birthday as you or the first couple letters as your name you might feel more comfortable or attracted to them. In addition, when you kick a ball in soccer it feels like a second nature to you. Your subconscious is the reason you don’t have to think about it, you can just rely on your reflexes and score a goal. As Eagleman declares in chapter one, “The conscious mind is

The classic stories “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll consist of dreamlike adventures in a crazy world of nonsense. However this nonsense can be deciphered into a complex new system of thinking. This way of thinking can be transferred and directly applied to the mind. How the mind works, its many varying functions, and lastly the unconscious mind can all be tied to Alice. The unconscious mind can be compared to Alice, as can a dreamlike state of mind.

Throughout my life I have always wondered about the conscious and unconscious mind and why humans act differently in different environments. The main theory that is used in the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel is the Freudian theory. The first reason why the Freudian mind has a major role in Life of Pi is because it shows that Pi will act differently upon various situations and environments. Secondly, the Freudian mind shows us that there is the id, ego and superego, which overcome Pi’s psyche and change his behavior. Lastly, Pi is consciously aware of all that is going on but the unconscious mind influences his personality and behavior without him even noticing. Although Pi is a human that is very

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explanation of where our minds, or consciousness, came from and how we are able to

The human brain is the common thread which ties these selections of literature together. Our mind controls our every action, thought, and dream, but do we shape our mind or does our mind shape us? We are one and the same, our mind and ourselves, but who has more control our conscious mind or our subconscious mind and how do we know what we know? in the required texts, “Mystical Experience,” “Numinous,” and  Making Up the Mind we discover unique perspectives on understanding the unknown parts of the complex human psyche with the information they provide.

Do you remember the old drug slogans geared towards teens in the eighties? Well, there was one of them that said, 'The mind is a terrible thing to waste.' While they're commercial was talking about frying your brain cells, we can translate the slogan into a conversation covering the subconscious mind. Your mind has lot more power than you might think; and the power of mind is indeed a terrible thing to waste. When you can access the power your mind contains, you can use it to change the world around you for the better.

In all of the above processes we were discussing the ways to receive the information from your subconscious mind but, there is a process which precedes that and it is sending the message. I have already told you that our subconscious mind is like a kid, it does whatever you want it to do, but the problem here is that most people are not aware of how to express their desire to it. The most simple, convenient and fun way to send your message to your inner mind is to do it using the creative visualization process. By creating an image of the end results which you want to get and holding it in your imagination, you allow the message to be conveyed to your subconscious mind.

A good way to look at your subconscious is like the gas in your car that you drive. You obviously know that there is gas in your car thanks to the fuel gauge and the fact that you physically pumped and paid for it at the gas station; but when you turn the key and start your car you cannot see the gas functioning to power the vehicle, and you don’t really think about everything that it does to make your car function while on your way down the road. A subliminal stimulus is found in this subconscious section of our mind because they operate below the invisible line of what you are presently aware of and are able to interpret by your subconscious (Biology Online, 2014).

The function of subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Its job is to