Who Is The Real You?

Self-Therapy For People Who ENJOY Learning About Themselves

It’s the classic question of all time: “Who Am I?”

Am I the conscious me…
the guy who works and plays and thinks and is aware of himself?

Am I the subconscious me…
the person with deep, hidden desires I don’t even know about?

Am I the spiritual me…
driven by spiritual forces and universal realities I can only guess at?

Am I the person I wish I was, or the person I fear I am?

Am I the person my friends think they know?

Who Is The Real Me?

Let’s check out the possibilities.

AM I THE CONSCIOUS ME?

I know for sure that I’m not just the conscious me.

I can be aware of working and playing and thinking on a moment-by-moment basis but something deeper is driving me all the time too.

As I sit here writing this I’m aware of my thoughts about the topic and of the feeling of the keys on the keyboard and the look of the words on my computer screen. But I sure don’t know all of the motivations that made me sit here and do this.

Something subconscious definitely nudges me into deciding what I do.

AM I THE SUBCONSCIOUS ME?

I know there must be motives and desires that are unknown to me and that lead me toward the things I do. Sometimes these things just pop out and shock me.

How can we explain an urge to suddenly call an old friend or to take a drive alone or even to just cross our legs when we are sitting? Sometimes we can find “triggers” for our impulses, but usually we just move from one subconscious impulse to another without any real awareness of why we do what we do.

So I know there are two “parts” of me, conscious and subconscious. But I can’t know enough about them and how they work to form a good picture of who I am.

AM I THE SPIRITUAL ME?

Trying to discover the real me through speculation about historical and spiritual forces is futility to the infinite degree.

I can believe in this me but I can’t know this me.

AM I THE PERSON I WISH I WAS - OR THE PERSON I FEAR I AM?

Wishes and fears are just fantasies.

I’m more than a fantasy.

AM I THE PERSON MY FRIENDS THINK THEY KNOW?

No… but we’re getting closer now.

Our friends and acquaintances have a better look at us than we do! They aren’t confused by our fantasies about who we are. They don’t know what we fear we are, or what we hope we are.
They mainly know what they can see, hear, smell(!), taste, and feel about us.