Unconscious Person Mind

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An unconscious person mind is thought to still have drives, urges and instincts that we cannot control unless we are conscious. The unconscious mind is thought to motivate our words, actions and feelings without us knowing or understanding what we sometimes say, act or feel. Some psychologists think that dream, forgetfulness and a slip-of-the-tongue are explained by our unconsciousness. A preconscious mind can suppress some thoughts or behaviors but can recall the functions rapidly and become conscious thoughts and behavior. Some thoughts and behaviors may cause a person some discomfort and are suppressed into the unconscious as not to cause anxious feels when they are recalled to the conscious mind. We try not to dwell on thought that cause us anxiety or discomfort so we try to put unhealthy thoughts somewhere where we do not have to think about them. The conscious mind is where we are now. Awake, alert and communicating with others and we are aware of what we are doing and why. The two types of consciousness our text discusses; are the perceptual consciousness and the mental structure of our brain. The Perceptual consciousness is the sense that we have when we know what is going on around us and we can communicate and know what we are saying. The other state is when our minds has a suppressed thought or memory of an image in our unconscious that when it is recalled, passes through our preconscious, that filters the unpleasant parts and guards against anything that may cause anxious or anxiety feelings. This is important to understand this relationship between the three states of consciousness because it is necessary for us the understand how our brain functions and why we do the things we do when we are awake and to understand that if we can control our brain function better, we can better control our lives. (Feist & Feist,
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