Mental Maps and My Instinctive, Subconscious Navigational Computer
A journey to the center of my brain
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Come, reader, on a journey deep into my psyche. Let us board this mental elevator and descend past the surface thoughts and feelings, below the planning and executive functioning, beneath the anxieties and fears, right on by the deepest contemplations and core memories. Ah, here we are: the Subconscious. Where things happen far beyond my knowledge that nonetheless influence my every thought and action. Where the slightest similarity in the tone of something innocent a friend says and something mean a random teenager said in 2004 causes me to, for some reason, eat ice cream and buy a new podcasting microphone.
It’s weird down here. A stream of songs stuck in my head, the smell of my middle school math classroom, my fear that all rats want to climb up the inside of my pants, and other ephemera loose in my brain.
