How Does the Human Mind Work? Consciousness, Subconscious Mind, Memory, Dreams and Stress Explained!

 Consciousness: This conscious awareness of what I am seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, and understanding at this moment is a large part of consciousness.

   Example- I am looking at my mobile, I am reading Bengali words, I am trying to understand the topic, my attention is on this writing, I am thinking about a question.

Consciousness Mind: The conscious mind usually refers to those mental processes that we are aware of at the moment.

    Example: Thought - I will go on duty tomorrow.

                     Decision - Today I will learn this.

                     Attention- I will read the book with attention.

How Consciousness Works:  Imagine you are walking down the street and suddenly you see a car coming towards you. So your brain reacts immediately (1. Eye for looking>>>2.Brain receiving Information>>>3.Brain Processing>>>A car is coming towards you>>>Quick decision>>>Move away from there.)

Subconscious Mind: The term subconscious mind is used in general terms to refer to mental processes that are not always under our direct conscious attention. But our behavior, thoughts, feelings, or decisions can influence A part of these self-perpetuating mental processes is simply called the subconscious.

   Example: Suppose you have a mobile phone in your hand; you open WhatsApp and receive a message. This is happening in front of you. This is Consciousness. That same time when you read the message, but there are many things going on inside the phone that you can't see on the screen. Similarly, our brain also processes many things that we do not directly experience, which can be easily compared to subconscious/automatic processing.

   Now understand with memory: Suppose you used to listen to a song as a child, and then suddenly you hear that song 10 years later. I used to listen to this song when I was little, the song had a connection with the old memory in your brain, the song acted as a trigger.

    "Old Experience>>>Memory>>>new trigger>>>Remember memory"

    Understand more easily with Habit:  Learning to drive- first day driving the car: watch mirror, clutch, gear, brake, accelerator Everything has to be done consciously, after many years of driving, you can focus more on the road. Many parts of the gear change become automatic.                (Practice>>>Learning>>>Automatic skill)

   Dream: Dreams are experiences that occur during sleep, where we may experience things like images, events, people, sounds, feelings, or stories. Like you saw in your sleep, you were going on a train, suddenly you met a friend from school. you woke up wondering if the incident really happened.

  Why Dream Happen: It's not that the brain goes dormant during sleep, especially REM (Rapid Eye Movement). Brain activity is high during sleep and vivid dreams are common. Dreams can be related to various things, such as daily experiences, memories, emotions, thoughts, fears, desires, and recent events.

  Stress: Stress is a physical and mental response that can be caused by a demanding or challenging situation. When the brain or body thinks that extra effort is needed to cope with a situation, a stress response may be triggered.

     Example: If you can answer your interview correctly tomorrow, then you may experience increased heart rate, sweating, muscle discomfort, muscle tension, excessive worry.