Stream Of Consciousness Analysis

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The stream of consciousness writing exercise shows and tells a lot about the person writing it as well as the circumstances, emotions, moods, and overall feelings and beliefs held by the author. Although I feel as though my stream of consciousness is a very private matter, I have taken up the challenge to expose my thoughts in this essay in order to analyze and understand more fully how my brain works and the circumstances and factors that caused me to write what I did. Before I go into the analysis, I will say that the stream of consciousness is very personal to me. I know that the beliefs and wording are simply what I was thinking at that time, are not edited, and may be different from what I actually believe or consistently hold to be …show more content…
The first thing I notice is that the style of writing for streams of consciousness is very different from a polished piece as my thoughts tended to jumble together, either producing run on sentences without the proper syntax that is required for formal writing, or sentence fragments lacking form that are all emotion with no higher thinking involved. This tells me that at that time my mind was relatively unfocused and I didn’t start with a concrete place such as a particular memory or …show more content…
I began to observe myself observing my thoughts and described them as bats which flit is accurate in that both thoughts and bats flit about and are difficult to grasp completely their form when in motion. The imagery then switches to light and darkness which then transition back to God and the need to trust in Him. I then wrote about perfection in a fallen world, shedding more light on my Christian background and hope of salvation in Jesus Christ. I begin writing about the future and my hope for the future as rooted in the Scriptures. Oftentimes I go to the Scriptures for comfort and hope, especially when I am really struggling or in a tough place. It makes me step back and see that maybe my problems aren’t nearly as big as I thought they were, nor are they so hard to tackle. Mostly, I find that it is fear, fear of the unknown, of falling short or the fear of sacrificing myself entirely that sometimes freezes me in place and prevents me from looking and moving

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