The Unconcious Mind

The unconscious mind is what we are not aware of, what we don't really know of. It is like a treasure box buried deep deep inside our minds. In our unconscious mind most of our memories are found, in the unconscious part most of it is stored. Things like our hidden desires, sexual urges,  secrets, forgotten memory and those foolish things we do, for example is just hitting someone we hate without even thinking, and our reaction to things are also under the unconscious mind.


Every action we do and thought we have are not by chance, it is somewhat affected by our unconscious mind. Our unconscious mind are mostly are revealed through slip of tongue in our actions or body movements. According to the article about Sigmund Freud's Theories about the unconscious mind from the website www.dreammoods.com. The article also tackles about the Sigmund Freud's theory about id , ego and superego where he stated that the id is the one that is centered around primal pulses, pleasures, desires, unchecked urges and wish fulfillment. and ego is concerened about the moral, the rational, self aware of mind and what is right and super-ego is the one one that blocks the id and it is also the one that reinforces the moral codes of ego.

"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go."
From New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1932.

In Sigmund Freud's Theory this is how it works and the road or signages maybe can be related as the super-ego because that says if you are going the wrong way and it leads you to where you want to go. I agree about this quote of New Introductory Lectures. Many of us are just acting without thinking of what may happen next, we put our dreams in priority and our ego are just following us to where our id wants to take us. Most of the time it is wrong because the id will only tell us to get what we want and do not care of what will happen, and not caring if you will be hurting anybody.

The unconscious mind is still a great mystery of how it works, but how does the unconscious mind affect our dreams or how does one dream affects the unconscious mind? Our unconscious mind becomes active when we are asleep, it sometimes shows us what we really want, want we miss, what we are looking for. In a dream, our subconscious mind is not so taken literally, we must first interpret it to know what is the message behind it.

Inception Myths

I need to watch inception again for this blog because I already forgot everything that happened in the film. But, I was really surprised. The first time I watched the film, it was just okay for me, nothing special and I thought that its just another normal film from Hollywood. But when I watched it again
the film became more interesting for me, maybe because I was able to get the details more about the film and understand what Christoper Nolan is trying to say in this film.

If what I remember was right, in the film inception they never really mentioned anything about lucid dreaming, astral projection or anything. Maybe thats because it is his own version of lucid dreaming and not the one that really happens. Christoper Nolan made a whole new concept in the world of lucid dreaming and there are some mythologies in this film that he created.

As I was browsing trough the internet I found a blog entitled Lucid Dreaming myths in Inception by Rebecca Turner from the website www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com. It was exactly what I was looking. The blog post is about Christopher Nolan's myths about the film Inception.

First Lucid dreaming myth in the film inception is: There are two ways to wake up on a dream, first is to die in that dream and second is to wait for a kick. A kick is when something will distract your physical body or you will fall in a water, but the problem with the kick is when the dream goes deeper it becomes harder for you to wake up.

Second must not die in a dream with a level 2 dream or higher or else you'll fall into a limbo. A limbo is a dream where you think of it as your reality. It may take yo 50 years or higher in dream-time to realize that it was just a dream or maybe never.

Third is you can share a dream with someone. This is as of the moment impossible in real life, whats only possible is to create a projection of someone you know or create a projection of someone out of your mind.

                         "Your mind is the scene of the crime" - Inception

This is the line that intrigues me the most when I was watching the trailer. After watching the film I aggreed with it because in the world of lucid dreaming, it really is. Because all you do in reality is limited and all the suppressed feelings goes into our subconscious mind and it at some times became our dream, the things that we long for, what we really want to do in reality and what we dream of. It is really amazing how our minds works to the fact that everything that we hide will eventually come out in our dreams, and it is possible that our dreams may make us more aware of who we are and what we really want.

Cristopher Nolan's version of lucid dreaming is one of a kind, he managed to make his own version and mythodologies in lucid dreaming that is not far from reality, who knows? maybe some of his myths will be available in the future like one of his myths; that you can share your dream with other people. with our technology now, it may soon be possible.

Post 1 : Lucid Dreaming inspired Films

Lucid Dreaming occurs when the dreamer suddenly realizes that whats happening is far from reality. Some can control their dreams like in a movie where you control everything, in a sense that you create your world. Lucid Dreaming can be mastered by an individual,there are few website that teaches a person on how to do a lucid dreaming and how to control it. everyone can experience it, even those people who are unaware of it.


 I have experienced lucid dreaming once, it was like 10 years ago where I suddenly realize that whats happening seems to be far from reality but I got lost and panicked, I did not know what to do so I tried to wake up. It's weird, because waking up is also a dream, then I didn't realize that its just a dream until I "really wake up". I have read an article about people having lucid dreams and their experiences on it. And there are also some films that is lucid dream inspired.


As I look through the internet I found this website that focuses on what I am looking for, it is "World of Lucid Dreaming" and there is an article there by Rebecca Turner about "Lucid Dreaming Movie Reviews". The article is about Films and animations that are produced which has the idea of lucid dreaming, movies which resonate with the concept of dream control and consciousness inside an alternate reality world. and the approach they made to the film.

Most of us all knows this already, as one of the most popular lucid dream inspired film, "Inception". Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind’s vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. In inception they can share dreams where in real world it is not yet possible to share a dream with another person, but maybe in the future we can. In lucid dreaming we can create a character in our dream that acts on its own, that character can either be our company or just a passerby.

Another film that's also good is the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" major roles are played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. This film is about Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) who undergo into an operation to erase his memory of his ex-girlfriend  Clementine (Kate Winslet). As his memory fades away, he is starting to regret having his memories removed and wanting to save it so he tried to save Clementing from being erased in his dreams.

It was such fun to watch films that gives us idea of what we can do in our body, like in lucid dreaming. Many people would not be aware of this if they didn't watch these films for example. We should look around more, and appreciate this things, many of the films we watch are actually telling us something that we don't know. Example is this two films, where they are suggesting that we can control our dreams.