The Human Subconscious

1. The Human Subconscious

2. Motivation We were motivated to adopt this subject,because it is a very interesting one, and there are few people who think about it.

3. Schools which took part at the debate of this topic • School Mariengymnasium Jever, Germania • “Mihai Viteazul” National College Bucharest, Romania For this topic there are six messages.

4. The project • Personal opinions on this topic • A lot of information • Real stories and facts • Our image about the human subconscious • Conclusions

5. The Human Subconscious In our opinion the human subconscious is the second form of rational power.We think this is the side of our being that controls us when we are unconscious. Are dreams and hallucinations part of our subconscious ? What about deja-vu and telepathy ? Is hypnosis a way to look into our subconscious ? Adrian and Maria, Romania

6. The human subconscious-by Oana , Romania

7. The Human subconscious…..it's a complex, large thing, and people have only started exploring and discovering it. I think that the influence our subconscious has on us is bigger than most people expect. When I try to find a picture that describes the subconscious, I imagine a security centre in an important building: Lots of people watch thousands of monitors that show everything we see through our eyes. Only the important information is proceeded and reaches our conscious, warnings like 'Danger, tree in front of you' or 'No car in sight'. The other things are pushed away as long as the subconscious is busy with guiding us through our daily life; but when we lie down to sleep, the people working in the security centre get bored easily, and because they have nothing else to do, they fetch the "films" they have recorded over the day from the archive. Esther from Germany

8. I think this is where dreams come from: Our subconscious plays the film over and over again, looks deeper into certain situations, analyzes them, and maybe reveals reactions that you have suppressed during the day, because you had other things to do. For example, I remember that one day I went into the city with my family: I was about seven or eight, and we were walking down the mall, when there was this big dog, almost as large as a calf, walking by with his owner. Esther from Germany

9. Then, I wasn't scared at all, because it was sunny, I had ice cream, and I only saw the dog for about two or three seconds, but that night, I had a horrible dream about a big dog trying to eat me. • My conscious had already forgotten the dog I had seen in the city that day; but my subconscious had remembered at night and had thought about the dog and the danger it could have meant for me. I think that dreams reflect our fears, wishes and expectations, because they reflect on things we have already experienced. Esther from Germany

10. Which leads to my personal explanation of what a déjà-vu is: I think they come from the part of our dreams that deals with our expectations for the nearer future. Maybe there's a thought running through your head at night that says: "I'll go swimming with my friends tomorrow", and then your subconscious starts to imagine what it will be like tomorrow. And the next day, coincidentally, something happens just as you imagined it at night, and that's when you think: "I've done this before!" So I think that déjà-vu, dreams and subconscious are linked, and that it is partly the reflection of the past, partly a view on the future and partly our imagination dealing with things that happened to us. Esther from Germany

11. The Deja-vu • We have discussed the déjà-vu topic in our group, and we found out that everyone of us has had a déjà-vu already, but no idea where it came from. That's weird, isn't it? Finally, we thought that maybe our subconscious plays a situation that is about to happen over and over again, because we are afraid of this situation. Maybe it runs through all the possible endings for this situation, and if one of this endings really happens later on, we think: "Wait, I've had this before!" Or is it a malfunction of the brain? Could it be that our brain realizes that we are doing something, and instead of putting it into the "Now happening" part, it puts the impressions in the "Past" part - and that's why we think that we have done this or that already. Jessica, Hanna, Elisabeth and Rica, Jever

12. But then again, everyone in our group has had a déjà-vu, so if it means your brain is ill somehow, wouldn't that be stupid of Mother Nature, to give us a dysfunctional brain? As a last idea, we thought that déjà-vu might not be a real error, but something like a short circuit in the brain...You probably know the situation walking next to your dialogue partner and that person says something that makes you really angry and you are just thinking "fool", but also saying it unconsciously?! Oops!! Or did you know that chewing gum was invented accidentally by subconscious? Well, of course, there are diverse stories of who actually invented the chewing gum. It's said that people had been chewing tree resin in former times. Jessica, Hanna, Elisabeth and Rica, Jever

13. But in fact it was the American Thomas Adams who improved and brought the chewing gum to market, reasoned by his subconscious! Actually he wanted to produce bicycle tyre or any rubber-like material. But it didn't work. All his experiments were unsuccessful. He was standing in his experimental laboratory and was angry. There his hand slipped to the table, grabbed some of the mass and took it to his mouth unconsciously. He chewed. Then he realized: Well, that's a good idea! And so he began to produce chewing gum. Our subconscious is always there. Doing something without thinking about it. Sometimes it's really embarrassing or getting on you nerves, e.g. when you lost your latchkey, because your subconscious made you place the key in the fridge or you crumple your blue mauritius stamp, you flush down your pants in the toilet, you put your ketchup in your glass of black currant juice, whatever. Jessica, Hanna, Elisabeth and Rica, Jever

14. But sometimes it's really important, because the fact is that you don't think about it. It's some kind of intuitive acting. Imagine a dangerous situation: A child is falling down a wall. You don't have the time to think: "Hey, what can I do?" In this second the child is already on the ground. But therefore we have got our subconscious! Our normal consciousness is just checking all information in our brain. So I mean the thoughts, not the moves which are of course managed by our brain. But if there is a dangerous moment, our body will go into level two and switch on the subconscious for fast reaction. This makes it possible that you can catch the child and save its life, because you just act automatically. so in fact it's a great thing, isn't it?! Jessica, Hanna, Elisabeth and Rica, Jever

15. The déjà vu-by Oana, Romania

16. The Dreams • Through the thoroughness of the dreams, we can reach tothe knowledge of the soul.Several months before he died, Jung dreamed he was talking to a rabbleof people about his work "Man and his symbols", the people acceptingit, unlike the psychiatrists, who were not so convinced. Thepsychologists and Jung sustain that "They don't cheat, lie, makedistortions or put aback….They look to express something unknown andununderstandable for I", but Freud was against this idea. • We think dreams are a form of our fears or likes/dislikes; hallucinations are …in our opinion….some kind of mental diseases. Raluca, Adrian and Maria, Romania

17. The Dream-by Oana, Romania

18. Telepathy • It can be considered as a sixth human sense, which is connected to thehuman subconscious.Freud considered telepathy being a primitive faculty which was lost bythe human being along his evolution. The ones who can communicatetelepathically must have a very strong emotional connection.Jung gave it a bigger importance, considering that it is asynchronizing function and discovering through his experiences thatthis phenomenon influences our dreams Raluca, Bucharest

19. The conscious • It is the frontier to the infinite, it is above the humanbody. Each of us has two faces: the one we show, the one we feel, theone we believe it is true, and the true one. We are conscious for theone we feel, unconscious for the one we show, and the subconsciousworks for the real one. We didn't find a clear definition ofconsciousness yet, the term is still very confuse. Raluca, Bucharest

20. Insomnia • The main cause of insomnia is stress.The food which helps to prevent the insomnia and to obtaina serene sleep are: (warm) milk, cereals, fruits, rice, salad, lemon,green vegetables, fruit juice.The famous insomniacs are: Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, CharlesDickens, Marlene Dietrich, Amy Lowell, Theodore Roosevelt, NapoleonBonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Leonardo de Vinci (slept for 15 minutesat every 4 hours). Raluca, Bucharest

21. Mesmerism • It may be considered the way to your self knowledge. Alongthe time, many politicians have practiced the mesmerism in themultitude, a manipulation form which this people in order to gain someadvantages. The most famous mesmerism improvers with the multitudeare: Adolph Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, WinstonChurchill.Animals can be hypnotized too, the best tamers using this techniquemost of the times. They can be hypnotized through sensitive means,optical or acoustic ones. Raluca, Bucharest

22. Conclusions On the topic: • We have discovered new things about the human subconscious • We have revealed our personals experiences On the project: • We have discovered the others` opinions • We had the chance to work in a team