Amazing facts related to the subconscious mind
Mental spaces : How much information can your brain store at any given
time ? Well after movies like limitless and Lucy you might think your mind has
infinite possibilities. The human brain is often called one of the most complex
structures in the universe. Yet you still manage to lose your keys or forget
someone's name even after meeting them a dozen times. So what exactly is our
brain capable of. If it were a computer what would be your mental space. The
average brain has about100 billion neurons each one connects to about 10,000
other neurons resulting in10,000 synapses per cell. Every synapse passes
electrical signals around the brain which basically tells your body when to do
stuff. Now it might help to think of each synapse like one data point every
signal is basically a 1or a 0 in total that's about 1 quadrillion ones and
zeros, in other words your brain works as fast as a computer that processes 1
trillion bits per second and we haven't even talked about memory. A few years
ago neuro scientists figured out how many bytes your brains can actually hold.
It turns out it can contain up to 1000 terabytes of data that's a hundred times
the size of the US Library of Congress. Now of course most of that power is
hiding below the surface. About 95 percent of your brain activity is completely
subconscious so the next time you lose your sunglasses when they're sitting on
your head remember that you've got way more going on up there than you realize.
Absorbing data : Do we really need all that power ? How much of your brain
does it actually take to process the world around you. You've probably heard
that you only use 10% of your brain but is that really true? Any neuro
scientist will tell you it's not. We use the vast majority of our brains on a
daily basis. We're constantly jumping from hemisphere to hemisphere lobe to
lobe. Now of course that doesn't mean each part of our brain is always
performing at its best. Every second our subconscious takes in around 2 million
bits of data that sounds like a ton but remember that our subconscious is
capable of processing a million times more than that while our conscious is
usually working in over drive. Our subconscious can handle just about anything
you can throw at it.
Cognitive randomness : Have you ever been
sitting at home watching TV when some person that you hated years ago randomly
pops into your head. To your conscious mind these thoughts come out of nowhere
and sometimes they do. But not every random thought is completely
meaningless. Neuroscientists call these
intrusive thoughts they tend to infiltrate your mind when you're zoning out.
Some are weird and goofy like wondering how dogs would wear pants, others can
be dark and creepy. Even if some disturbing mental image shows upright before
you fall asleep it doesn't mean you're a terrible person. Everyone's mind
wanders to strange places but there's only one reason to take them seriously if
you find yourself having the same thoughts over and over again. Your
subconscious is trying to send you a message.
Your subconscious doesn't
like to ask questions : It isn't designed to
analyze or have opinions. It's often compared to a computer or robot because in
many ways it acts like one as important as our subconscious is. We would be an
absolute mess without our consciousness. We need that part of our brain to make
us rational, analytical and objective.
Subconscious symptoms : Sometimes your subconscious mind speaks through your body
when it's feeling frustrated or distressed. It stimulates all kinds of physical
symptoms you might notice a rash or pimples pop out of nowhere or maybe your
joints start randomly aching. These are some of the most commonly misdiagnosed
symptoms because there's no illness involved. It's all your subconscious
remember that your subconscious controls pretty much everything in your body.
So when it's stressed many of those automatic functions start going off the
rails for example your brain might subconsciously tighten your abdominal
muscles or stop producing digestive hormones. Both cause stress induced stomach
aches . Yet people are way more likely to blame something they ate.
Imaginary danger : Your subconscious has
a hard time distinguishing between what's real and what's imaginary. A study
from the late 90s tested this by asking two groups of people to play the piano.
The first group actually touched the instrument while the second just imagined
they were playing. After scanning the participants brains researchers
discovered that the subconscious couldn't tell the difference. It reacted the
same way to the imaginary notes as it did the real ones. But no one in the
second group actually believed they were playing the piano. So how do we tell
the difference ? This is where your conscious comes into play. It analyzes all
of the information your subconscious takes in and then decides what is and
isn't real. Now of course our conscious can't always make a clear distinction
which is where fear and anxiety come from. Imagine danger can be terrifying
because your subconscious reacts like it's really happening. When your
conscious brain sees your body freaking out it sometimes gets fooled into
thinking you're really in danger.
Unresolved fatigue : When life is moving a million miles an hour even eight hours
of sleep might not feel like enough. You might notice yourself being less
productive or having a harder time. Concentrating the quality of your work may
start to suffer try as hard as you want to fix it but no amount of conscious
effort can fix this subconscious issue. You feel drained like this when there's
a deeper unresolved problem while your conscious mind is trying to be
productive. Your conscious has been working over time. It's exhausted from
trying to keep that issue from affecting your daily life. The only solution is
to take a break and focus on your mental health. Our brains aren't designed to
work 24/7. Some of the most ambitious people work through the pain by stuffing
their problems deep down but those issues can and will leak back into your
conscious mind leaving you feeling cloudy and tired.
Subconscious
repetition : Your brain absorbs massive amounts of information every
single day to make sense of it. All it needs some way to differentiate between
things that are important and things that are extraneous. Repetition is one of
your brain's most useful tools when deciding what to pay attention to. It's
actually pretty simple the more you perceive something the more priority it
gets . This rule applies to everything from people to subjects in school.
Affirmations are one of the best examples. Now at first they don't do anything
because your subconscious doesn't really take them seriously but each
repetition reinforces the idea. Your brain starts to dedicate more and more
space until finally the affirmation is important enough to change your
behavior. But repetition isn't just for the healthy things in life. Repeated
fears are often way more terrifying because those negative emotions are
ingrained in your subconscious. You might tell yourself you're not scared but
your subconscious will quickly tell you otherwise.
Power hours : Unlike your conscious mind your subconscious doesn't go to
sleep. When you do in fact it does more work when you're sleep. For the count
your subconscious uses those eight hours to catch up on all the processing it
couldn't do during the day. So while you're lost in dream land your
subconscious is wide awake. This is one of the main reasons why our dreams tend
to contain memories and information stored in our subconscious. While you're
sleeping your subconscious mind has full control. So your dreams are often a
blend of automatic thoughts, most of the time they're just random slices of
your imagination. But sometimes you can new things about yourself that your
conscious mind would never discover.
Cognitive chunking : Since our subconscious is constantly handling huge volumes
of data it needs some way to organize everything because our conscious might
need it. At a moment's notice it isn't going to sit around waiting for our
subconscious to make sense of it all. So our subconscious uses a time-saving
strategy called chunking. Chunking is when you group similar pieces of
information together in your memory. The closer they are the easier they are to
remember. Think of it like any search
engine, when you start typing it shows all kinds of shortcuts to related
searches to speed up the process in other words your subconscious makes a habit
of telling you what to think before you think it.
Premature development : One of the biggest
reasons why children act so innocent is because they haven't developed the kind
of consciousness that adults use everyday. Instead they're primarily using
subconscious functions. This means they can't do things like distinguishing
between real and imaginary. You see most of our consciousness doesn't develop
until we're around 9 years old. But our subconscious grows the most from 2 to
7. In other words you spent the first decade of your life doing whatever your
subconscious told you.
Living in the
present : Your conscious has no
problem thinking back to the past or picturing the future. Your subconscious on
the other hand isn't nearly as flexible. It's constantly focused on living in
the present. It'll always lean toward actions that are going to help you right
here and now sometimes that can be a good thing but more often than not. You
need your conscious to give you some sense of perspective.
Speech deficiency : Your subconscious
doesn't communicate in the same way your conscious does. It can't really use
words because it doesn't have a verbal process or your subconscious relies on
images and feelings to get its message across. This is another reason why the
subconscious is easiest to understand when you're dreaming. After a dream you
often can't make much sense of what happened yet somehow the emotions seem
clear as day.
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