Thread: What is the conscious ?

I think it's basically what you are aware of...

The separation between the conscious and subconscious becomes thin and vague when you start talking about lucid dreams.

I see it more as levels of consciousness and awareness.

When you are in theta and delta, these are usually considered semi subconscious and subconscious, However we know that we can be aware that we are in these states of mind and recall experiences from them.

Well Freud said there were two parts to your mind, the conscious part and the unconscious part.

The conscious part is being aware of your surroundings and having sensations and thought.

The unconscious part is like the back of the mind which refers to thoughts and feelings that a person is not directly or fully aware of. It usually shows up in dreams or freudian slips.

Ofcourse Freud was a self-obsessed heroin user so it may not be entirely accurate

Originally Posted by NeAvO

Well Freud said there were two parts to your mind, the conscious part and the unconscious part.

The conscious part is being aware of your surroundings and having sensations and thought.

The unconscious part is like the back of the mind which refers to thoughts and feelings that a person is not directly or fully aware of. It usually shows up in dreams or freudian slips.

Ofcourse Freud was a self-obsessed heroin user so it may not be entirely accurate

Most of Freud's logic on what they were was correct, though his findings were inaccurate due to such a small population. Basically, his data said we are all sex crazed lunatics because he was studying with people during the Victorian era, where sex was majorly suppressed.

I think simply put, the conscious is desires you control, the subconscious is desires you can't control.

Dreams are supposed to be subconscious, but in lucid dreams they become part of the conscious.

What about the sleep time other than REM dream time? What's the brain doing then?... the parts we don't usually remember or are even aware of.

In practicing dream recall, I've been able to learn to recall some of the non-dreaming sleep time thoughts and begin to hear my inner voice in full awareness,... while my body is asleep. Not that I always “understand” it, but,… the mind never rests...

They’ve tried to define it in terms of brain waves too, but it falls apart when contrasted to awareness.

I've heard it said that the heart is the second brain. I've heard it said that the body is the subconscious and I've heard it said that the spirit is the subconscious. I've heard it said that consciousness is what we see with AND what we see,… and that consciousness goes where it is directed.

It's a hard thing to define... an enigma.

It's all we really have...

I don't know if this will help or not but...

Laws of human consciousness:
http://www.lawsofwisdom.com/LawsofWisdom/chapter4.html

the conscious is our way to focus on one thing at a time so we dont do everything at once. You can only consciously focus on one thing at a time.

Our "frontal" consciousness can give it's "attention" to only one thing at a time, while our "subconscious" can divide it's attention to a wide variety of subjects simultaneously.

However, it is possible to keep an ear on the "subconscious" at all times.

You can focus your consciousness to a variety of subjects simultaneously, in full awareness. It’s not a “normal” state of mind, but the “Gurus and Masters”, have been doing it for a long time.

It goes back to caveman shamanism…

Originally Posted by Who I Am

In practicing dream recall, I've been able to learn to recall some of the non-dreaming sleep time thoughts and begin to hear my inner voice in full awareness,... while my body is asleep. Not that I always “understand” it, but,… the mind never rests...

I'm just guessing here but maybe the inner voice is the voice you hear out of the blue? like i sat at a computer with my headset on and heard some guy call my name. it was so low, yet enough to easily hear, yet sounded so far away. I'm guessing i heard my inner voice say my name or something? i've heard my name called like that a few times.

Dreams are supposed to be subconscious, but in lucid dreams they become part of the conscious.

So, it's an on off switch? weird how it works, like being aware you're dreaming somehow.....concsiousness going into subconcsiousness...shared consciousness.

I suck at typing that word.