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...?

Book fail

I had a book called "Structure of Mind" that I thought would help me with my topic but so far it really hasn't so I'm getting a new book. Thats why I haven't really been posting much. But I'll get on it and try to keep you posted on some stuff I find else where. I have also found that Freud is very well known for his works on the subconscious I'll also try to get a good book of his experiments and findings.

School all year?

School all year long? In class we discussed this after we all finished Outleirs. I believe that have school all year would reap children of many important life skills. For example how will you have a summer job if you dont have a summer? Summer jobs are important they teach about real life, which I believe is more important than the kind of "real life" school teaches us. Don't get me wrong I love school but my grandmother only went to school from 3rd to 6th grade and she is a very personable intelligent lady. You would never know she barely had an education because she learned everything she needed to know though working her whole life and really experiencing the things school is supposed to teach us to avoid. Her life was hard she moved here from another country with a small child and had to support her self. Not only this but it teaches you how to interact with people. So yeah you can see that I LOVE summer vacation! And that they shouldn't get rid of it.

While in class they made us write short journals i am now going to share those with you.

My birht date and how that applies to what the book said.
End of April
First born
I learned that i'm sort of at the middle-end of what is, by this book, considered the top range of performance. So I have exceded my expectations but not by that much. I am the oldest child in my family and have been in accelerated classes while my brother is the youngest in his class and he is not in accelerated classes. I do believe that this book states a pretty accurate representation of my experiences.

The 10,000 hours.
My Time
I think that I have spent most of my life reading or dancing. Of course I have spent more time reading than I have dancing. I have read every night for about an hour to a half hour ever since I was probably in third grade. However I started dancing at age two at about 2 hours of class a week and that grew periodically to now 6 hours a week.

My topic of choice and why.
My topic of choice has nothing to do with dancing, which is my passion. I think that this is okay because I dance for pleasure and enjoyment. I can dance for fun forever but I know that my intellectual self will not be satisfied with it as a career. Basicly everything involves reading so that is still going to be a part of my psychological aspiration.

That is some of the journals I've written in class have to how Outleirs relates to me and why I chose this subconcious project.

The subconcious controls our instincts. One of the examples I found most oftenly was the car driving one. Basicly it explains that when you are learning some thing you have to focus on it really hard and not have any other distractions, but after a while you no longer have to consciously think about it and it becomes instinctive. That is what the subconcious mind does it allows you to do things and yet still be able to be doing some thing else. One day when I was walking home from school (I was probably in fifth or sixth grade) I saw this tree that had grown into the sidewalk I had seen this tree hundreds of times and wondered if some one was walking and not paying attention if they would run into it. So I tried to distract myself and see if I walked directly into it, i didn't. I realized that with out thinking about it what so ever my body swirved around the tree, my steps nautaly moved along the curve of the sidewalk around the tree, even though I felt as if I was still walking in a perfectly straight line. This always puzzled and amazed me and now I know exacly why that happens. Our subconscious mind is a powerful thing that allows us to lead our lives the way we do.

So I was reading this article online and based on what it said I came to the conclution that our subconcious is basicly what controls how people percieve us and how we preceive them (or what makes you you). The subconcious mind holds all of our experiences and controls how we react to things, the way that you react to things and your experiences are what, I beleive, makes you you. Preceiving has a big part in how we act for example when your speaking to some one and you use a certain word that word could be a "trigger" to a specific experience, and everybody has different experiences linked to different "triggers" and different ways of percieving those triggers. So even if, for example, you say something and you mean it as a compliment that person may take it as an insult. So my studies on the subconscious mind are turning out to be useful in real life situations, I hope they are for you too!

In class we had to read this book called outliers, it was a great book I would recomend it, but moving on we are suppoesd to share what we larned. I learned that if I work really hard and get 10,000 hours on one single thing, and get the exact right opppertunities, oh and if I was born at the right time I can be really successful. This I think is a little ridiculous but in many cases the author proved it true. I honestly don't know what to beleive, I just think if I keep working hard and make opppertunities for myself i'll end up ok. Although I do hope I end up more than just ok.