I believe that at any time and in any given situation in your life, you are in communication with your self.  Let's say for instance, you're involved in something you know you should not be doing.  In this situation, your conscious would be telling you it was wrong.  Here is my theory on what a conscious is:

    Whenever your conscious tells you something is wrong, OR right for that matter, it is your future self warning you about things it has already experienced.  Have you ever walked by the playground of the school you used to attend and memories came rushing back?  You could almost see ghosts of yourself playing on the swings?  And you think to yourself, 'enjoy it... it goes so quick'.  That, would be your conscious.  You would be the 'future self' in that situation warning the 'child you' to enjoy your youth.  And even in a bad situation where you think 'I really shouldn't be doing this.'  That thought comes from some form of your future self that knows something bad will come of it.
    Every person has a present, a future and a past.  These timelines run parallel to each other.  Even though you may have experienced bad consequences to an action taken as a child, if you ever think, 'I wish I hadn't done that', then you are warning yourself of what is to come and perhaps the you that is still in the 'past' will listen to it's conscious and not have to deal with those consequences.  In this way you change your own past and the you still in it lives a better life.  If this cycle is kept up, eventually one part of you will live a perfect life.  Which is how we reach the equivalent of 'heaven'.
 

Miranda Thomas
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Comments by Mark:

I'd like to say a big thank you to Miranda for sending me this theory (the first to do so), it is just the sort thing that I'm looking for.  I hope it gives others something to think about - it certainly gave me a few ideas.  Any comments, alternatives, etc., send them to me, I want to here them.