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Originally Posted by snowyowl
I can't tell if consciousness and subconsciousness are different places of mind with information passed between them; or the same place which undergoes a process of changing from subconscious to conscious.
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Indeed, memory is a bit of a mystery.
So I can consciously recall what I did yesterday but I have no conscious memory of what I might have been doing on a particular Tuesday in 1984. Yet no doubt that information is stored somewhere, which we may call the subconscious. But such subconscious memories may have little impact on my current life.
But then there are those subconscious memories which do affect our current life. For example, a child is startled by a barking dog. As an adult he or she has no conscious memory of this incident but they always feel uneasy around dogs without knowing why. This information may never be transferred from the subconscious to the conscious unless perhaps they undergo a form of therapy such as hypnosis.
We spend much of our lives having to deal with our subconscious processes.
Peace