Quotes About Subconscious

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Most growth modalities—from nineteenth-century psychoanalysis to twentieth-century Scientology, and just about everything in between—share a common paradigm. It goes something like this: we store influences from the past in the subconscious, those influences inappropriately affect our behavior and perception in the present, and our job is to somehow remove those distorting influences.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

I couldn't tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of the heroines in my sleep.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal 'picture' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of 'will,' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

Oh, well. I'll just tuck it in my subconscious, and it'll wake me up in the middle of the night, probably.

Instinct doesn't always tell us to choose the easier path, but it will guide you towards the right one. Your subconscious intuition wants you to survive and to thrive. It isn't clouded by ego or others' opinions - those fickle things live in the conscious mind. Your instinct has a clearer purpose: to help you. Listen to it. Learn to recognize it. Acknowledge it when it speaks and have faith in it. Instinct is the nose of the mind. So trust it.

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what had appeared as if in a revelation.

Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.

For years I'd written down my dreams, believing, as I still do, that one of the purest sources of knowledge about our lives comes from the symbols and images deep within.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Night runs with its children, Sleep and Death, with its twins, the true dream and the false one.