The main problem areas lie in the breakdown of communications, misinterpretation and poor, wrong or inadequate programming. Let us see if I can demonstrate.
Using, yet again, the three room analogy, let us see what happens during communication and why it breaks down and what are the results of those 'break downs.'
Conscious is sat there receiving and monitoring a vast amount of information. Remember anything up to half a million items of new information alone in one single day and scribbling everything down, as brief notes which go down the chute to Subconscious and drop on his ever increasing pile. Seen this, saw that, heard this, felt that, he said, she said and so on and on and never ending.
Subconscious grabs the nearest note with no sense of priority or planning and scans it. 'She said,' so formulate an answer and press the necessary controls to activate vocal response. New information; file it for future reference; too busy, need to respond; stuff it in the nearest cabinet; worry about it later. 'Seen food;' check the dials; not hungry, forget it. Dial says, 'Feeling tired;' close eyes: heard a noise: open eyes. All dials indicate on-set of fatigue; good; instigate actions in preparation for complete shut down of Conscious mind. Another note, 'Heard a whisper.' Damn, can't reach the sex drive button. Then, in among, to all this comes the all-important notes that require an emotive response. 'Seen a dog.' Which dog and where the hell is the note relating to it? Rummage, panic! That one, so how do we react to that? Where's the note that told us what happened last time? In the cabinet. Which cabinet? The brown one; the black one; the blue one; the green one; the yellow one; the top drawer; one of the middle drawers, the bottom one? There it is. It bit me. Press dozens of buttons to not only show fear but to take evasive action. Another dog. Same reaction, show fear. But that one doesn't bite. It's a nice dog. Who cares? Haven't got time to sort it all out and rummage in the cabinet every time a dog comes along. Anyhow you know what Higher Intelligence does when things are repeated often enough? It modifies the base programme so that it saves time and sends out an automatic response when just one button is pressed. It makes the rules, not me. So don't blame me, blame it, if when every time, from now on, you see a dog you feel unreasonable fear. It says it's OK, so as far as I am concerned you can like it or lump it.
Man in flat cap and supporting a moustache. Into cabinet to check. Checked. Press buttons for, 'Don't like him.' React accordingly. But I don't know him. So what, you had a bad enough experience, at one time, with a man in a flat cap and with a moustache and Higher Intelligence says that that was enough for it to dictate that every time now the two come together, no matter what the circumstances, the reaction will always be the same. You won't like him. It's not my fault; the guy upstairs does the automatic programming. See him. But I can't. Tough, live with it then.
(Not for much longer, for as soon as I understand how you all work I will be in the position where I will then follow the detailed instructions provided and will sort you all out.)
As you wish, but excuse me, I haven't the time to discuss it now. See; another few hundred notes or more have just come through from the other side.
(OK, so for now, you get on with it and I will live with my fears, diseases and discomforts; my unnatural likes and dislikes and all the other disagreeable reactions and responses that you put out every time you press your buttons and what have you.)
Why have you pressed that button now? To bring on a head cold. But why? The note says cold breeze. But everyone knows that a cold breeze does not automatically bring on a head cold? It does here according to the programming. If you say so, but let me ask you the big one. Why do you often get it wrong? I don't. It is the programming and the misconceptions and scanty information that Conscious sends in here, that are all wrong. Excuse me but I have just shut down the Conscious so I now need to operate the dream machine; so lets grab a whole handful of random experiences and emotional responses; mix them up and see what happens. I like to see a whole heap of fear in there, so that the nightmare is a good one. But I don't always dream, let alone have nightmares. Yes you do and the first time you don't, it upstairs has blown the whistle and I have knocked out all those switches, up there, and you are dead. Remembering a dream all depends on how I wake you and if I feel it is necessary to record them or how much I pass through to your Conscious mind when I do wake you and a lot more. That's interesting; so Subconscious handles dreams. Yes and that's not all, I also handle the creative and artistic side of you. (Often called your Right Brain activities). I handle and control all your learning skills and much more. I will remember that. Please don't, as that creates yet another piece of paper down the chute and then you wonder why I make mistakes. I don't do it on purpose but sometimes I just have to cut corners when the pressure and all the rubbish builds up. So forgive me when I hit the 'temper' button, when I know I shouldn't, and create an unnatural and unwarranted reaction in you and I do, sometimes, take calculated risks and guess reactions when I just do not have the time to rummage in all those cabinets. Cabinets which, do you know, contain every single experience, you have ever had, since the moment you were born and before that, and that amounts to billions and I am expected to find an appropriate response every time. What we need is a good clear out and all the old and outdated rubbish getting rid of.
Before I go, what's that for? It is a thermometer and tells me what you are feeling and indicates if I should make you shiver or sweat. Here's another one, off that pile of notes, 'Height'; automatic response to that, fear.
Even if it is not warranted? If that's the reaction it upstairs has decided upon, then yes. Even it gets it wrong but then that has nothing to do with me, has it?
So if I approach something that is Hot and you make me pull back so that I don't damage myself, that is the same as making me feel bad in some-ones company; of having a fear of shadows or dying a thousand times inside at the thought of having to do something I just assume is threatening or being frightened of the dark or going out or staying in or having a headache to avoid having to do something that I know is unreasonable to want to avoid? If it upstairs says 'yes' then who am I to argue? I just pull and push the levers; it determines the reactions that you will feel.
