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Mentioned in last week’s class was that in general, our subconscious sees things in different ways, yet culturally we make an effort to see things in the same way. This is an especially interesting thought, because it’s so completely ingrained in our outlook on life, that I’ve never realized it until now. But could there possibly be so many more subconscious ways of seeing things than cultural? What if instead of skin color or birthplace, people were grouped by their subconscious ways of looking at things? But then, can our subconscious continue to change and eventually truly look at things in the same way as our culture does? Do people who have similar subconscious ways of looking at things understand each other more? I have had an experience with someone (cousin, five years my senior) who grew up having a completely different lifestyle and life experiences, but we’ve since ended up at the exact same outlook on life. It was an empowering feeling, of not being so alone, and also a feeling of being less special/original. Would this have anything to do with our subconscious’s being similar? And back to the original text, if we culturally try to see things in the same way, is this a form of suppression that has yet to become recognized?

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“Einstein showed that time does not exist. There is no way to know if two things happened at the same time.” This thought, although I knew Paul would say it, is a very difficult one to swallow. Futuristically, could it be possible to prove that two things happened at the same time? What if one thing causes another – like force being applied to a ball, energy transferring and the ball rolling – is there a moment there/can time be applied?

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And then from Tuesday’s class, while discussing subconscious/brain activity during sleep/dreaming/fugues/etc. we briefly mentioned coma. I thought it would be interesting to look at this more closely. So people don’t remember anything while they’re in a coma, and they are in a very vegetable-like state. But is their brain still working? I know that often people respond to others who talk to them. I know of a case where a person in a coma started crying when a visitor mentioned his family.

Something else that I want to learn more about is migraines and headaches. So brains have no nerves and therefore cannot feel pain (is this right?), so where are we feeling headaches? Can you tell us more about migraines and its causes?