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The Role Of Dreams, Intuition, And Social Influences On Conscious Decision-Making Processes, Robert Bouffard
The Role Of Dreams, Intuition, And Social Influences On Conscious Decision-Making Processes, Robert Bouffard
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The average person makes approximately 35,000 conscious decisions per day, which, accounting for the daily amount of sleep a person gets, is equivalent to a decision madeevery two seconds. Upon realizing the frequency, I sought to find a distinctive connectionbetween the conscious and unconscious when it pertains to how people make decisions. I hypothesized that people make decisions regarding their personal relationships with the help of intuition, which I considered to be the ultimate link between our dreams and our conscious thought. I also believed the concept of intuition was entirely dependent on our processing and decoding of dreams. In …