PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Delta Wave, Aspirin, Diazepam
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The ironic monitor is a process of the mind that works outside of consciousness, making us sensitive to all the things that we do not want to think, feel, or do, so that we can notice and consciously take steps to regain control if these things come back to mind: as this unconscious monitoring whirs along in the background, it unfortunately increases the person"s sensitivity to the very thought that is unwanted. Freud believed that errors are not random and instead have some surplus meaning that may appear to have been created by an intelligent unconscious mind, even though the person consciously rejects them. The cognitive unconscious is at work when subliminal perception and unconscious decision processes. Time and experience stop, you are unconscious. Dreams come, and finally the glimmerings of waking consciousness return in a foggy and imprecise form as you enter post sleep consciousness (the hypnopompic state) and then awake.
