The Human Mind

The complexity of the human mind has always fascinated humankind. It is amazing how our brain is able to process thousands of things at the same time and still command motor functions. The study and hypothesizing about the human mind can be dated back as early as Plato. Plato is a well-known thinker and philosopher from ancient Greece. Being from such a privative time period, many of Plato's assumptions and believes are unreliable in modern science. One of these topics is the dependability of the senses. Senses are how we perceive the world around us, and we must rely on these senses to keep us safe; however, they often may deceive us. When it comes to praising the senses we are materialistic. However, we should avoid relying solely on the materialistic. We can do this by learning more about the science and history of things around us so that we rely more on knowledge instead of sight or hearing. If we can achieve this, we will be able to understand our world fully and understand more of why things are the way they seem and not just how they appear. A sense that would be helpful for this if it could be added as a 6th sense is clairvoyance. This sense would allow individuals would be able to understand and have knowledge of things that they have not yet seen or heard of.

Sigmund Freud is a more recent phycologist that mainly focused on the importance and means of dreams. Dreams are extremely helpful for us to understand many things that go on in our lives; however, the meanings can be hidden deep within the self-conscience. The most mystifying dreams tend to be those that allow the dreamer to feel as though they are interacting in this dream world they have entered. On the other hand, the most terrifying dreams take advantage of the individual's worst fears and, in some cases, allow the dreamer to believe they have died. A recent frightening dream I have experienced is one that I felt as if I was standing alone in a field that was void of any form of life. The reason that this was so frightening is because I do not enjoy being alone. While some dreams may stick with us for the rest of our lives, the majority of dreams are lost nearly as soon as they occur. This is because many of them never transfer into our long term memory and disappear deep into the short term memory. The origin of dreams have been debated by many sleep researchers. However, I believe dreaming is a mental activity that allows us to work through many of our everyday problems.