Do you think that you have an unconscious?

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For those of you who think the unconcious is a real part of human psychology, do you think neurodiverse people have a different sort of unconscious? Or have one at all?

Yes and yes to the first two questions, and no to the third. One possible difference relates to memory capacity in ASD populations, which may function differently and have greater capacity.

The whole theory that there is such a thing as an "unconscious" was invented to explain NT behavior. So if it exists it must exist in NTs. And if that is the case, that it exists in NTs, I see no reason why it would not also exist in ASD folks.

Because of the fact that I dream, I KNOW that I have an "unconscious.'

Dreams are fascinating. They can, easily, break many laws of physics.

In some sense

No no. First you "know" memories of your dreams not dreams by themselves. There is probobility that they were quite different than your memory of them.
Secondly if you are conscious of unconscious phenomenons they can not be unconscious.

You're not conscious of your dreams while you're awake.

I find dreams to be a symbolic representation of the Unconscious seeping into your consciousness through dreams.

Dreams are your hopes and fears put into symbolic and (sometimes) narrative form.

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I would say maybe something more like dreams can occasionally display evidence of "the Unconscious" at work behind the curtain while nevertheless amidst our various memories, emotions and such of which we are otherwise consciously aware. But now setting the matter of dreams aside...

One of the ways I get answers and solve problems is by dismissing them from conscious memory altogether and then waiting for "the Unconscious" (or whatever that might be) to send something into conscious thought.

Im not conscious of any other events of my past most of the time.

Agree.

Brilliant idea

What if someone's unconsciousness affected yours

According to Carl Jung, there is something called the "Collective Unconscious."

You could be affected by someone else putting input into that "Collective Unconscious."

During my working years I built various custom devices and machinery in an industrial setting, and I often did my design work with my eyes closed and while "thinking in pictures" to make things work -- try explaining that to the boss -- before ever making an actual sketch and beginning the fabrication. It was during those days that I discovered my mind could occasionally come up with some things as long as I did not attempt to participate!

So, what would you consider someone's conscious state to be while they were lucid dreaming and participating in the process? If you are in rem sleep while dreaming, you are certainly not awake, yet you need to be conscious or aware at some level to participate in the process and manipulate events.

i believe that the 10% of our brains that we currently use is our conscious mind that we can manipulate (to an extent at least) and that the sub-conscious is the remaining 90% that can't normally be accessed but if we could access might open up many possibilities like super powers (bit cliché but i believe to be theoretically possible) and the capacity to hold our existence (soul) in another dimension which sounds very science fiction but then again there are things we cannot see because our eyes rely on light and other things.

The 10% thing has no basis in science AFAIK - it's a myth possibly started by "positive thinking" spruikers.