Unconscious Mind facts
While investigating facts about Unconscious Mind, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.
There is actually a term for that creepy feeling when you drive somewhere and have no recollection—it's a form of automaticity called "highway hypnosis" and is a product of the conscious and unconscious minds focusing on different things.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Unconscious Mind I managed to collect.
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Your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.
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Science recognises Ouija Boards users are "moving the planchette involuntarily" and a when answering "yes or no questions, ouija use was significantly more accurate than guesswork, suggesting that it might draw on the unconscious mind" and the users enter a "dissociative state".
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A 2012 study found that when answering yes or no questions, use of an Ouija board was significantly more accurate than guesswork, suggesting that it might draw on the unconscious mind.
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Asian scholars were proposing the unconscious mind 15 centuries before Freud was born.
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When you think you are making a conscious decision, your unconsciousness mind made that decision 10 seconds earlier for you!
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No known language has been connected to speaking in tongues (while praying or so), but that it's the unconscious mind communicating in it's own language and speaking gibberish.
