what exactly is your subconcious?

Answer 1

The subconscious is often mistaken for the reactive mind.
If there ever was a devil, he designed the reactive mind.

This functional mechanism managed to bury itself from view so thoroughly that only inductive1 philosophy, traveling from effect back to cause, served to uncover it. The detective work which was invested in the location of this archcriminal of the human psyche occupied many years.

The reactive mind is possessed by everyone. No human being examined anywhere was discovered to be without one or without aberrative content in his engram2 bank, the reservoir of data which serves the reactive mind.

What does this mind do? It shuts off hearing recall. It places vocal circuits in the mind. It makes people tone-deaf. It makes people stutter. It does anything and everything that can be found in any list of mental ills: psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions.

What can it do? It can give a man arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure and so on, down the whole catalog of psychosomatic ills, adding a few more which were never specifically classifies as psychosomatic, such as the common cold.

And it is the only thing in the human being which can produce these effects. It is the thing which uniformly brings them about.

This is the mind which made Socrates think he had a "demon" that gave him answers. This is the mind that made Caligula appoint his horse to a government post. This is the mind which made Caesar cut the right hands form thousands of Gauls, which made Napoleon reduce the height of Frenchmen one inch.

This is the ;mind which keeps war a thing of alarm, which makes politics irrational, which makes superior officers snarl, which makes children cry in fear of the dark. This is the mind which makes a man suppress his hopes, which holds his apathies, which gives him irresolution when he should act and kills him before he has begun to live.

If there ever was a devil, he invented it.

Discharge the content of this mind’s bank and the arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of ills goes away and stays away.

Discharge the reactive engram bank and the schizophrenic faces reality at last, the manic-depressive sets forth to accomplish things, the neurotic stops clinging to books which tell him how much he needs his neuroses and begins to live, the woman stops snapping at her children, and the dipsomaniac3 can drink when he likes and stop.

These are scientific facts. They compare invariably with observed experience.

The reactive mind is the entire source of aberration. It can be proved and has been repeatedly proven that here is no other, for when that engram bank is discharged, all undesirable symptoms vanish and a man begins to operate on his optimum pattern.

-- L. Ron Hubbard

Answer 2

The concious part of you is what you are aware of the subconcious. At the present stage, there are still fundamental disagreements within psychology about the nature of the subconscious mind, whereas outside formal psychology a whole world of pop-psychological speculation has grown up in which the unconscious mind is held to have any number of properties and abilities, from animalistic and innocent, child-like aspects to savant-like, all-perceiving, mystical and occult properties. This ‘big struggle’ is exactly what subconscious is all about. It is not possible to understand it outof conscious mind (a little balloon within a bigger balloon -like situation) only, because first ‘internal doors’ must be opened to let intuition bring understandings out of subconscious.

Answer 3

Well, your "working" memory can only handle so much, so some information is stored further in.
The stuff you use day to day, is your conscious or working memory.

there is also stuff you store but don't neccessarily use or need at the moment, it could be minor details about anything, or something you needed to know at one time but have no use for any more. Still, it is right there in your brain, in storage. That is your subconscious. If you need the information, sometimes something you see, hear, or smell will create a trigger and you will recall something that was deep in the subconscious. Also, dreams can also help you recall things.
I wouldn't trust anyone that claimed to be able to help me recall old memories, because this is stuff you need to do on your own.

Answer 4

No one knows for sure, but just about everyone has their own pet theory. Take each theory with a large grain of salt.

Answer 5

It's the brain's archive of things and events that your conscious mind wasn't able to absorb.

Answer 6

That would be dillusional. Maybe scizophrenia. Whatever it is, the person could not function normally and would need intense psychiatric care.

Answer 7

it's the pop culture created term for the unconscious mind