The Subconscious

Since sleep learning is based largely on the capacity of the subconscious to absorb and retain information, let us investigate the knowledge and theories existing about this less familiar area of the brain. It should be noted that the term subconscious is used in sleep learning and in literature about hypnosis, but the term is not recognized in psychoanalysis.

The term used in the latter is the unconscious. When referred to in sleep learning, however, it is the subconscious. Remember, there is no area of difference between the terms.

In Freud's imagery, the unconscious was a kind of anteroom to the conscious mind, from which excitations are frequently barred by a censorious doorman. This censor is referred to as repression. But, sometimes, these excitations from the unconscious pass the censor without becoming conscious. That is, they are held back by further resistance.