Does the unconscious exist? It is a question that has beset the psychological community for years. Although some have argued that since consciousness is difficult, if not impossible, to measure, it is then difficult to study, I do not believe that this fact invalidates the existence of the unconscious itself. Just because the limitations of technology constrain our ability to measure the unconscious at this point in time, does not mean that it does not exist. If over time psychologists have been able to observe or record people describing experiences that have led them to create the terms consciousness and unconsciousness, then there must be some realities to it. An argument for the existence of the unconscious comes from a comparison to the