Previously On: T-P-C-2
Welcome to the Thought Processing Center!
I am Charlie!
Now next door to the Conscious Data Highway is the Subconscious Data Highway.
Before we enter The Subconscious Data Highway please put on the hazmat looking suit hanging there. (Charlie gestures to the coat hooks on the wall.) Once you are suited head into the door, keep in mind you will float and where you float is dictated on thought alone. No speaking is allowed and I will communicate through a built in telepathic connection that seems to occur within the area. The Subconscious Highway is built with a similar construction to the Conscious Data Highway, but it is much smaller as the volume of data is lesser here. Think of this as a lazy river of ghost like thoughts. These are the faded remains of thoughts that entered the Conscious Data Highway and over their time as they fade the thoughts will either fade away to nothingness or float out of the Conscious and into the Subconscious Data Highway here. The transition is not visible by the naked eye, but if you reach into the only pocket of the jumpsuit you will find glasses. Put them on and you will see the thoughts chosen to come to the Subconscious Data Highway will simply float through the structures and walls of the other Department to become part of this data loop. Now due to the thought’s new spectral form the only way they can enter into consciousness is by passing requirements of the Highway itself.
Fun fact thoughts that fade into nothingness don’t always fade away forever. If a thought is of vital importance to the development of the Self it can be recycled into different context, but the lesson within the thought stays consistent.
See thoughts have been found to be not a product of the Self. Instead it seems that special types of lessons have their own awareness. They seem to operate individually with a common goal. Thoughts do jockey for integration and all have a special lesson of data in each. Our Scientists of the “Mind” have discovered that these thoughts not only come from outside experience; they also garner knowledge that will repeat in the Self’s life until the lesson is learned. We know this because there have been thoughts cataloged in either Highway that faded and then come back later on with a different situation as its catalyst to the Highway again.
Oooo Double Fun Fact! This Highway’s highest functioning time is when the Self is sleeping. The Subconscious Data Highway does the bulk of its work while the other functions are shut down for the night. Its peak efficiency is when the system is in a REM sleep cycle. In this cycle the Highway will dictate what is worthy of staying within the Highway itself or make it’s way back to Conscious thought. If the phantom thought is special the Subconscious Data Highway can fast track a spectral thought back to materialization and through the Filter to the Garden most likely via a Frog Man. The thoughts that are often fast tracked are those that are experienced as an awakening, enlightenment or life changing moment to The Self. These types of thoughts are rare and yet are the ones that facilitate the upgrades we see in all Departments.
To show you the Subconscious Data Highway at its peak we can simply request a nap from the Counsel and place the Self into a REM Cycle or two. The surroundings as you see will begin to become brighter in color and warmer in temperature. The ideal condition of the room the Self is in happens to be cold the work here is sped up. The converse can also happen. To hot means slower work. As this brighter transition happens you will see certain spectral thoughts go from a bluish gray into a warm gold. This means that the thoughts glowing are most likely chosen to return to the Conscious Highway.
Oh very good look above and you can see a shooting star like streak of light spiraling through the wall toward the Conscious Highway; that is a thought in transition. We can actually follow that thought to the Garden.
Now remember the shooting star of thought has gone back to the Conscious Data Highway where it will materialize and make its way to the Filter where once through will be eaten for certain by Frog Man shuttling it straight to the Garden. Special thoughts like this need more time in the Garden before going to the Development Department. The reason for this will be elaborated to in the next place in the System the Garden.
Next Time On…
T-P-C-4: The Garden
Mr. Sods 