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Quotes About Subconscious

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
~ Black Elk
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
~ Stan Laurel
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
~ Anne Dudley
I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
~ Gillian Armstrong
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
~ Tupac Shakur
There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
~ Justin Theroux
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
~ Laura Mvula
I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.
~ Steven Wright
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.
~ Rosemary Rogers
the unconscious is asking the conscious mind to make a plan.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 minim youre a sleap and the nex youre on your feet with a spear in your han. Wel it werent you put that spear in your han it wer that other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals. It aint you nor it dont even know your name. Its in us lorn and loan and sheltering how it can.
~ Russell Hoban
So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
~ Margaret Atwood
They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.
~ Mac Miller
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.
~ Robert Beverly Hale
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.
~ Tommy Bolin
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
~ Anne Lamott
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
~ Anne Rice
My mind said, Sleep. But more profoundly, my mind said, Dream.
~ Anne Rice
He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to figure out the world in which he lived. And
~ Anne Rice