I sent an email to Candace Pert and am now waiting on a reply. Cross your fingers!

Answer. I think.

I think I might have started to figuring out the whole thing with my dad. So the subconscious controls our instincts and it was instinctive that my dad found it a moment to be documented. Of course this instinct was brought on by every thing his subconscious has stored through out his life.

New book!

I started to read "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" it is split up into little sections and I read the "Conscious And Subconscious Terms differentiated". It is quite obvious what it was about, but it was written in a way that made it easy to understand. What it said was that the conscious mind is your reasoning mind, it tells you what must be right and what must be wrong. Your subconscious has no reasoning abilities it simply stores anything that you once believed as true no matter how false it may be. This made me understand a lot more about how we learn and understand things. Have you ever noticed that when you learn something it's almost impossible to unlearn? Like when one of your teachers teaches you something one way then another teaches you a different way it's really hard to follow the new way. I also believe this is why older people have a hard time being open minded and willing to change, their mind has been stuffed with "truth" their whole lives while younger generations are still learning all those "truths" so are more excepting of new ideas. Sorry to cut it short but I have to go I'll elaborate on this more later.

An Update

Yesterday I went to the library and got two new books; The Power of Your Subconcsious Mind by Joseph Murphy and The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. They seem to be more what I was looking for hopfully I'll find them more interesting than my original book. Sorry I wasn't able to start reading already, my brother broke his arm last night and I was at the hospital. I'll keep you posted on that, oh, and I'm currently trying to contact Candace Pert.

Hurray!

So I asked one of my friends to help me a little with my research, she's really good with that kind of stuff, and she found a neuroscientist named Candance Pert that looks pretty promising. From what I've seen she focuses on the science behind the subconcious, which is what I'm interested in, and has written a book called "Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind". Now i know there are people that have stubied the science behind the subconcious not just the new age stuff, bye-bye Nobel Prize.

Secret agent?

So I was so desperate for some clarity I looked in "The Complete Idiots Guide to Psychology" and found that it described our subconscious mind as sort of our "secret agent" which I found to be really interesting. In it the author explained what I have been talking about in the past few posts the whole subconscious stores every thing thing. It also gave an example of people being able to recall conversations doctors had while they were being worked on that they couldn't possibly have known. Of course the methods of getting this information can seem a little sketchy. Hypnosis, I mean, it sounds completely crazy but many people swear to its accomplishments and we must stay open minded so I say why not?

Daddy Dilemma

So today my Dad came home from work and asked my brother how he'd done at his cross country meet, my brother proceeded to turn around and show him his shirt that said "Invitational Champions". Of course my dad became very happy and was all "good job son"s and "I'm so proud of you"s etc. etc.   so then he asked my mother to take a picture of him and Preston, my brother, with the shirt on. I couldn't help but notice that he never took a picture of me with my Educational Award of Honor certificate signed by the freakin' president or any of the other awards I've gotten for being smart. I mean honestly its not like Preston actually won it himself he just got it because his TEAM could run fast. And I know my dad was proud of me for all of my stuff too, it just isn't celebrated as publicly as a physical victory. Some people may disagree but I think our society puts a higher honor an physical talents. Not many people I know sit down as a family to watch the national math bowl, but they do watch their local sports teams and the Olympics. Now I'm not saying that my father purposefully decided that my brother was more accomplished then I, in fact the opposite, I know my dad would rather have us both be intelligent than good at sports. However he has grown up in America where he has been effected by society and the media and he SUBCONSCIOUSLY found this moment to be a moment of honor and needing of documentation, which is exactly what is happening all around us all the time. So I'm not yet sure how this part of subconscious works but i'll figure it out soon, and that is also why this is labeled under Random thoughts.