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Analysis Of When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday

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A good daydream every once in a while is a relaxing, borderline meditative phenomenon that allows the conscious mind to escape for a brief moment in time. Whether it happens when watching an interesting movie or when zoning out of a boring class, this process of the mind leaving reality occurs every day multiple times a day. The idea of severing or dissociating the mind from reality has both beneficial and detrimental effects. Martha Stout, a clinical psychologist and author of the text The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness provides examples and explanation from a passage in the text “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” of how the mind and dissociation can help and hurt the individual. Using terminology and models from “Immune to Reality”, a chapter from the book Stumbling on Happiness written by Harvard professor of social psychology Daniel Gilbert, we will support this. The brief disconnection with the conscious world is why the divided self can both protect and endanger the individual. Protection in the context of these two articles represents protecting the body, but more importantly, the mind. Both articles delve into under what circumstances the mind would begin to dissociate in order to protect the host. First, let us take an in depth look at what it means to dissociate. To separate or split, so in the context of the conscious mind represented in the text, one can infer that dissociation would be separating from the

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