What is the Unconscious of mind?

The Unconscious Mind is an immediate warehouse, the source of stored memory, insight, fantasy and dreams, and an information processing engine. Freud was the first to realize the unconscious' importance. However, his view that the unconscious mind is above all a dark reservoir of sexual drives and unreasonable impulses has given way to a more contemporary understanding. It is now recognized, for example, that many judgments and decisions by the unconscious mind are taken automatically.

Although what is in the unconscious is hard to measure, scientists know that even fleeting perceptions, which can be too quick to record consciousness, are permanently influenced by the unconscious mind. Consciousness requires attention. In the absence of direct attention, information may be recorded.

The behavioral and cognitive-conscious traditions historically in psychology did not emphasize unconscious processes that is when they did not disclose their existence or consider them irrelevant to the working of mankind. However, the unconscious is even thrown in the psychoanalysis: as conflictual, driven by sexual and aggressive drives, full of wishes and fantasy.

Today we know that these views are skewed and that we miss the normal, ubiquitous regular unconscious mechanisms that are part of how our minds function— mine and yours and even your worst neighbor or employee. So let's look at some of the qualities of the unconscious processes, which dispel the above-mentioned myths about their irrational, erratic, or excessively sexualized nature. Nor are their effects a sign that something has gone out of mind. Quite the contrary. They are normal and regulatory. In other words, the subconscious carries out unconscious operations when you have a brain. Sometimes, they may appear irrational because our brain is evolutionarily adapted to an era that has long gone away, but it follows certain rules of operation. For example, it makes sense to be afraid to drive over a bridge when we understand it as fear of heights, which was evolutionarily adaptable in the pre-wright era.

Implicit learning also makes sense in this connection; a greater knows that the barely perceptible movement of the leaves means that an intruder will threaten you and myself, even if we were brought up in a violent environment, may be afraid of a loved one's subtle expressive rage. A panic attack may not be adaptable as a result of either of these scenarios when you try to drive across a bridge when your partner is making an angry remark. It can even seem unreasonable, since you are a good driver or know you won't harm your friend. However, it's not an irrationality for your unconscious. 

The unconscious, as Freud suggested, seems to be far more rigid and associated than a seething chest of unpredictable wishes, fantasies and drives. As mentioned above, certain of those associations have an evolutionary basis, such as the mad jolt when you see a snake-like branch on your afternoon walk. Others are taught and committed over time to unconscious memory. For starters, you probably don't have to worry about what to do when inside a car if you're a driver in the USA. Click the ignition key, the pause key, the changing gear, foot on the accelerator, right lane push. The whole process takes place automatically as if it is dedicated to body storage (which it is). However if all of a sudden you have found yourself driving a stick shift in the UK, then your far more flexible conscious processes have to come into play and guide you on how to drive. Take, for example, how we learn unconsciously. Everything that is excellent and cavalries with the practice is correlated with that knowledge and taught. Contrary to conscious learning, in which we work hard to memorize associations (e.g. as adults, we learn languages through vocabulary repeated), the unconscious finds out what happens at the same time, without any knowledge that those associations exist or that you remember them.

This associative learning influences our perception of the experience and its reaction. Therefore, this answer is also automatic. It refers both to our worlds and to our relationships. So often we find ourselves in therapy exactly to destroy our unconscious learning and the behavioral patterns that we have committed to automaticity: to emotionally shut down while overcome, to ruminate about negative self-critical thinking if we feel disappointed by others and to experience impostor syndrome when we are celebrating.