Yet all this needs to be taken under consideration keeping in mind that these are very small, young children. ... Eliot related the water, the sea to the subconscious in The Wasteland. ... Golding also makes use of the sea, the water to make reference to the subconscious. ... It is a thought process that infinitely goes on in the back of our minds while we are the exact moment perhaps speaking to someone else, doing something else consciously. ... Up till here, the beast is only existent in their minds. ...

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According to Descartes, the mind and the body can be separated. "Mind is conscious and non-spatial and body is spatial but not conscious."" Descartes asserts that the mind and body are separable and infinite by using his method of doubt to show that he could not doubt the existence of his mind. ... Somewhere deep down in your mind you must be thinking "breathe, breathe - "The Cartesian Dualism is still having problems of explaining how the mind and body interact or why the mind does not stay in body or mind control body."" ... Or perhaps there is NO actual world but only an infinite amount ...

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What do you think of when you consider the mind? ... My mind raced through confusion and darkness not seeing any light in existence. ... A world lost of color, hope and love, lost to the subconscious functions of the brain. ... I still am unsure whether I controlled my mind or it controlled me. ... My mind now is not given much freedom. ...

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The visual imagery of this scene improves our understanding of change as we can see that the growth of a child in the subconscious as he goes to bed and has a nightmare of his father. ... We can see that the boy puts up a resistance to the change but his mind is maturing and he must go with it. ...

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