…I think at first this was an attempt at convincing people there were other things going on in their minds they were unaware of that were not truly there. Generally if you for example, accidentally burn yourself on the stove, you are going to feel some pain and you are going to feel it immediately, That’s not unconscious, but let’s say you are a master chef and you are employed in a large restaurant in a hurry to prepare specialty meals and you burn yourself but you don’t have time to stop and attend to it. This incident might become repressed, put aside until a later time, say after you get home from work and your hand is throbbing with pain and you say oh yea I hit the blah, blah, blah. This is what I think Freud and other psychologists are calling the unconscious mind. I think this interpretation has been construed over time with regard to what is referred to as the unconscious. How do things become unconscious without repression and were they ever really unconscious?
I think the unconscious is the primitive parts of the brain, the parts that process information that we cannot see or hear before it gets to the cerebral cortex where it is mapped and when we want to recall something we think of one thing that triggers another and we put together whatever it is we choose to recall. It is only as smart as what we put into our brains. More than that I think the unconscious is also that which we passively take in from the environment while other things hold our immediate attention. This goes on a lot with the television and subliminal messages. A good example would be a personal experience I had several years ago just before crossing the street. As I was waiting to cross there was another lady waiting to cross from the opposite corner. The person who clearly worked at the hospital, stepped off the curb and was hit by a car moving into the intersection. I crossed the street unaware of the traffic I was crossing in front of and so absorbed all of the conversations that went on amongst many of the drivers about the accident. After the incident I repeatedly found myself about to commit the same act the woman from the hospital had, because of all the thoughts the drivers and I, were having at the time of the accident. I was unaware of this at the time and only became aware of the possibility of it later, but nonetheless, it was all unconscious material now part of my mind and I had no control over it simply because I was unaware of it and had no clue about it until I read Entangled Minds by Dean Radin, (not the best book on the subject) and Mind to Mind, by Warcollier (seems spawned from Mental Radio), and Dream Telepathy, by Ullman, Krippner (I wonder if he was the man who poisoned his wife?) and Vaughn and finally Mental Suggestion by Vasiliev. I am very fortunate to have safely crossed the street so many years after the incident. This is not to say that the drivers deliberately intended to hurt me, they may be as unaware as I had been. I read somewhere that the human brain thinks at something like 400 words per minute, that’s 6.6 words per second. That’s not the speed of light but that’s pretty darn fast. I think the unconscious might also be those thoughts we have in passing which we pay little attention to that construct the unconscious mind.
The unconscious is not subliminal information but is manipulated by subliminal information, which is information constructed in such a way that the unconscious mind will receive and process that information. Regardless of what it is, the brain will process it if one is exposed to it. It is only after one has processed it or one has “been programmed” and one acts on the programming, might one be able to identify the information programmed into one’s brain. Say one goes out and buys a salami, but one never eats salami because one has an ulcer and it upsets one’s stomach. After one gets home with the salami one wonders why one bought it. Then one recalls a friendly conversation with one’s neighbor Floyd who loves salami and one had a discussion with him several weeks ago about a new brand he tried that he just loves. You had been so busy that you forgot the conversation and found yourself grabbing up the salami by mistake. This is one example of how the unconscious mind gets programmed.
I also think it’s called the unconscious because we are realistically unable to recreate our origins with any accuracy. Hollywood has tried but even they cannot say for sure how things really were in the past. Anthropologists, Paleontologists and other scientists can reconstruct the past from relics and fossils uncovered from the earth and even then they are still guessing at how things might have been, in an effort to helps us understand who we are now.
One might think that being around others is a problem but without the involvement of other people we might not be able to discover the content of our unconscious minds. When you see a list of movies, this may be what you are looking at, some one’s unconscious thoughts and ideas, not all of them but many of them. Edward Scissorhands, comes to mind. It is easy to see the person was possibly labeled as one who might be a writer and was always cutting people with his words or that he was always hurting people with his hands in some way and doing it unconsciously. Over the years his destructiveness was sublimated to becoming a kind of topiary artist and then became a hairdresser, but to download that information into your brain is never going to free you of it, you become infected with it if you are intelligent enough to reason at all what is going on in the film.
http://www.yale.edu/acmelab/articles/Bargh_Morsella_Unconscious_Mind.pdf
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