{"id":627,"date":"2015-11-12T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:29:52","slug":"unonscious-vs-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/11\/unonscious-vs-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Unonscious vs. Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams\u201d (p. 183).<\/p>\n<p>This quote from <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World<\/em> takes place when the narrator from <em>The End of the World <\/em>chapters is talking to the Librarian about the process of dream reading. This quote stuck out to me because it really hints at one of the stories more prominent themes: the abilities of the unconscious mind. As the reader eventually learns, the Town that the narrator is in is actually a creation of the Calcutec\u2019s subconscious from the <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland <\/em>chapters. Throughout this semester, we have read other texts that deal with the unconscious mind, like <em>Neuromancer<\/em>. In <em>Neuromancer, <\/em>the protagonist also creates a an alternate world to live in by uploading his subconscious to the matrix. In <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World <\/em>and other texts alike, the subconscious is depicted as a means of escape from reality. In the quote above, the author uses the word \u201cprisoner\u201d to describe the conscious mind. Why? Because the conscious mind is limited by the confines of time and space, whereas the unconscious mind is not. The subconscious mind also seems to be related to knowledge, as if one can learn more through an unconscious mind frame than a conscious one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams\u201d (p. 183). This quote from Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World takes place when the narrator from The End &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/11\/unonscious-vs-conscious\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wonderland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}