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.