So I Wikipedia-ed Subconscious, after my teacher told me it was ok to use as a starting point, because I was pretty lost and confused. Basically every thing I found about the subconcious was theoretical and very "new age" "hippie" kinda stuff, which I'm really not interested in. I'm a science kinda girl and enjoy hard facts. Of course good old Wikipedia explained why, in the very first sentence "The term subconscious is used in many different contexts and has no single or precise definition. This greatly limits its significance as a definition-bearing concept, and in consequence the word tends to be avoided in academic and scientific settings." I was a little disappointed to see this but that just means that I can be the one to make it scientific fact and well known, heck it can get me the Noble Prize. Ok so maybe not, but I can still learn a lot and actually discover something new, which would be amazing!

Now moving onto some more serious stuff,  I am also pretty confused on the whole Subconcious vs. Unconscious thing. What this article says is that when people say the word "subconscious" they really just mean Unconscious. I have no idea how to move forward on an area of study that doesn't technically exist. Yet, which is confusing me more than any thing, I have found some actual information on the subconscious, or is it all wrong? I honestly don't know.
 So then I scrolled down the article and it talked about how the subconscious is our instincts. I thought it didn't exist? well anyway I really like what this is sections saying. It explains that our subconscious stores information from every thing we see and saves it, then when we need it to survive (or even for solving puzzles and other things like that) it sends it to our conscious minds (this is the subconscious I though I was studying). There are even special people called Psychoanalysts who work on retrieving the information stored in your subconscious, which usually is stuff we cant really process or understand very quickly. The article even explains a book called "The Gift of Fear" where the author speaks of the phenomena of that feeling we get when we know something bad is about to happen. This feeling is behind your subconscious using clues from your past and forming in the present what it beleives will happen causing that feeling in your gut that tells you somethings wrong. Basically its just your subconscious talking to your conscious. Of course in society everyone says your crazy when this happens to you, how could you know, right? we aren't mind readers and we can't see the future. Most people when they get this feeling just shrug it off, but why would you, we all get that feeling don't we? Well yeah we do, wether we want to believe it or not we are animals and animals have instincts. How do animals like pigeons fly thousands of miles back to their homes (my uncle races pigeons, yeah I know, weird, but almost all of them come back every single time), or some how all the animals in an area evacuating before a natural disaster? They have instincts and they follow them. There apparently is some pretty cool stuff that our subconscious minds do even though they don't exist...?