Having read this article, the way that the mind works with different parts of consciousness makes me think of my own personal memories. My idea for this project was to create sound that reminds the listener of times when physically you are not awake but when the mind is. That feeling when you’re not quite conscious yet.
“The unconscious mind is the storehouse of all memories and past experiences, both those that have been repressed through trauma and those that have simply been consciously forgotten and no longer important to us”.
I’ve based this project off a memory of when I was younger. I was involved in a fairly serious car crash and the memories I have of this event are sounds. absolutely no visuals. Was this because I was in a state of unconsciousness or because I’ve blocked the visuals out? I remember the moments before the crash and those afterwards but the stages in-between are purely sounds. I remember feeling as if I’d just woken up and as if my alarm was ringing in my ears, as if this was an alarm bell ringing due to what had happened). I remember hearing a scream, whether this was mine or my mums, this lingered while I awoke from unconsciousness, and the last sound I remember was silence right at the end, as if everything had stopped and I wasn’t there, when really this was when I was surrounded by noise from people and ambulances.
Reading this article really made me think about whether I suppressed this memory from the beginning or whether those are the sounds I heard. I’m unclear on what really happened but those memories are clear as the day it happened.
http://themindunleashed.com/2014/03/conscious-subconscious-unconscious-mind-work.html