#subconscious thought

[alexapdos]

Mementos: The Palace of the Public (horrifying, real)

[misslolasworld]

As my alarm went off this morning and ripped me from sleep, my final, stark, subconscious thought surfaced:

Walt Disney had himself cryogenically frozen to avoid coming face to face with his creations in hell.

I have no clue where this came from, but I’d love to have a drink with my subconscious sometime.

[notyouraverage007]

So I'm really big into dream interpretation,and dreams in general. Lemme tell you something: don't ever feel like dreams are just subconscious thought. Don't be embarrassed or bashful about your dreams, even if they sound crazy, straight-up weird, and don't make sense. They can terrify you, exhilarate you, make you question things you wouldn't consciously acknowledge, and give you answers to situations you've been struggling with. They can make you cry, make you lonely, make you angry, and they can make you smile.

Sometimes I find little bits of excitement and happiness just in the brief moments of a dream, things I am lacking in real life. And if that's what makes you stronger during the day, makes you smile to yourself, and helps you get through life, then so be it.

So, in the words of Aerosmith... Dream on.

[interstatic]

we're here to kill ourselves and love each other

[jcstitches]

Dream Theories

A friend of mine (Empyrisan) and I were discussing dreams and the contrast between our own. My dreams are generally very grounded in reality, linear, and well defined while hers tend to be very surreal. We were trying to think of reasons for the difference, since it isn’t a question of a creative and art-oriented mind vs. one that isn’t. We’re both artistic in out own ways. Eventually I reached this theory:

In dreams, mind cannot create a new face. Whatever and whoever you see is something you have seen while you were awake, even if it was only a glimpse in passing - though it is distorted by the subconscious.  So it could be that the closer a person is to having a  perfect photographic memory, the more concrete and grounded their dreams are because their memories have greater clarity. Conversely, someone with less acute visual recall has bigger gaps that the subconscious mind needs to fill in and blurred areas that the mind clarifies by adding details from other memories. Thus, you have a more surreal dream. 

Following that line of thought, we discussed how artists and writers often dream of their characters and/or stories. If you apply the previous theory, then a character a person draws or visualizes every day and is focused on would be firmly and clearly etched into that person’s memory. So not only would it be logical that they would appear, but that they could appear frequently to substitute for people in dreams pulled from a less clear memory - like a stand in actor of sorts. And for artists, the more often they draw that character during the day, the clearer that character will be in dreams because all the details have been gone over repetitively. When they dream and notice new details or new behaviors, it is because there was a gap in their memory for a particular thing or situation and their subconscious filled it in. Thus when they wake up, they add that detail and the character continues to evolve. 

Obviously there are many factors to dreams, but I do think this is an interesting angle to contemplate! 

[writingmythesis-blog]

As subconscious neural patterns, excuses can direct the course of events. As perceptions, they best predict actions you will take.

Dr. Athena Staik, in her August 2011 blog post for PsychCentral.com, titled Making Requests – 5 Reasons We Avoid Them (and 15 Excuses), explains why some people choose to complain or suffer in silence rather than coming right out and saying what it is that they want (from a relationship, from a work situation, from life in general).

The majority of the blog post holds no relevance to my thesis, but Dr. Staik's quote about excuses goes right to the heart of my personal journey writing a thesis.

I'm declaring a personal War Against Excuses in my life. At the moment, I'm none-too-confident that I'll prevail, but perhaps by "outing" every excuse my traitorous brain concocts, I can limit the amount of power these excuses may wield over my success or failure.

[illusory-correlation]

Everything I want is exactly what I can't have.

(just kiss me) I’ll prove to you what you don’t understand (don’t walk away without hearing this) you need everything I am (let’s make this work) fuck the past (open the door and welcome to life)

[subc0nsci0usth0ughts]

I had a dream last night about this really weird elevatoresque thing... Except it's not a normal elevator. A whole room is the elevator. And there were a bunch of people in this room-elevator thing, and instead of it going up & down slowly like a normal one, this one was going REALLY fast, and apparently the building we were in was like, the size of the CN tower or something. I've had dreams about it before too, which is weird.

The room/elevator always looks the same, but the building that it's in, is always different. Last night it was in my high school. But it wasn't actually my high school; it was supposed to be, but it just looked different.

There was something going on in the gym though. I don't exactly remember, but I was with friends that didn't even go to my high school, and I think we were watching a movie for the class we were in, but I have no idea what the movie was about.

An elevator or lift in a dream usually suggests how we deal with information. If the lift is going down, we may be going down into our unconscious for self-understanding

The dream is encouraging you to make more of your attributes and abilities, as unexplored potential and new ideas lie within you. This is especially true if you find yourself exploring unfamiliar rooms in a well-known house.