Locke- "Mind and Body I"

When I decided to work on the mind/body problem I wanted to first start off with the brain and the way it thinks. First, thinking occurs when the "mind turns its view inwards upon itself, and contemplates its own actions." The mind then thinks of different solutions, and then comes up with an idea by putting these solutions together. My favorite part Book II, Chapter XIX was how Locke describes how the mind works while it is dreaming. The definition of dreaming to Locke is, "having the ideas in the mind not suggested by any external objects." Alot of ideas are stimulated by your surroundings (external objects), which is why we use our senses to remember. Locke used an interesting example. He described a huge thunderstorm and how someone who is awake is feeling these senses. They see the lightning, hear the thunder and rain, and feel the house shaking. For someone who is sleeping, they still hear and feel, but they are in a incoherent state of thinking because they are dreaming.