Conscious and Sub-Conscious
The Conscious Mind
Marie Callas says that our conscious mind is everything that we are known when we are awake and participating in our environment. Things like figures, data, knowledge, science, language, perception and etc...
The way this relates to dreaming is that unconscious, subconscious and conscious material will be expressed in dreams. I believe this is an effort of the self to integrate into a state of health and wholeness in much the same way as our biological body does. In the dreaming state we are presented with information that if acknowledged and processed, can help us become more emotionally, mentally and spiritually healthy. That is why I think it is important to develop an understanding of dreams that includes all of these elements.
The Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind is also largely unconscious in that we do not normally use it in our waking state but it can be accessed, and information gathered from it, in certain circumstances. An example of this is when hypnosis is used to remember a number plate that a witness could not consciously recall. On the same lines, information we didn't know we had absorbed comes out in our dreams very clearly. For instance picking up small cues from other people's body language that are not cnsciously recognised but are nonetheless noted in the mind.
