Consciousness
The conscious mind is the part of your mind you
are aware of. The part of your mind that YOU control and can make your own thoughts,
actions and the things we do with absolute full intention, while the
unconscious mind is the part of your mind that do things automatically without
you thinking about it or controlling it, like breathing heart breath and
sometimes anticipation. What actually can happen is that these two “minds” can “overlap”
and actions and thoughts become automatic and just happens all by itself, it’s
like you’re not present, your thoughts just goes wandering off without you.
With this in your thoughts you can ask yourselves “Do we actually do anything
fully conscious?”
I think that we actually do
things fully conscious and aware of it. If you think about one action you would
like to perform like “Pick up that object”. And you perform that task. But not
every single task is done fully consciously. Because according to many studies previous
experiences can affect the choices your unconscious mind makes. If you have
done something many many times, it becomes a almost automatic thought or
action. For example if you are a football goalkeeper and you are used to catch
footballs, this can turn into an almost automatic action, for example if a ball
is flying towards you it can take milliseconds before you even realize that a
ball is flying towards you, but before you even think about blocking the ball
your unconscious mind has already started the movement to bring your hands up
and block the ball. So I think that to a certain degree your conscious actions
and thoughts are controlled and chosen by your conscious mind. Not always but
sometimes on a rare occasion it happens.
Another thing I think happens “by
itself” to a certain degree without your conscious mind influencing is who you
are and what makes you, you, like; your personality, the choices you make behavior
and thoughts. I think that who you really are can’t be influenced by your
conscious mind, you can pretend and occur as another person in front of others,
but I don’t think you can change your personality, it’s like it’s always there
but you are not aware of it, it’s in your unconscious mind all the time. But
one thing I think you actually can decide yourselves is the choices you make.
Some choices are harder than others to make, because of your personality. But
it’s still possible to make the choice with your “conscious mind” the part of
your mind that you are currently in control of, and I think you are directly in
control of. What I think is that your behavior is something that is a part of
both your conscious and unconscious mind, it’s like a crossover between these
two. You don’t always think about how you are behaving, your unconscious mind
does it for you, but sometimes when you need to you can control it yourselves.
The thoughts in your head is something I think also must be a crossover, for
example; you get the first impression of a new person you just met automatic
from your unconscious mind and you can also think about specific things that
you would like to think about.
So some thoughts and actions are made by your
unconscious mind, and some are made consciously. And some things can be “done” with
your unconscious mind purely trough earlier experiences, and some are a
crossover of both the conscious mind and the unconscious.
