Quotes About Subconscious

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me?

But then in dreams we are always children.

Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.

the waves—the woods are dreaming

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there

We saw both of these things six times each during the night. We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

In fact, less than one percent of all the information the mind takes in actually reaches our awareness. Likewise, most of how we react to that information remains outside our awareness;

we are consciously aware of only a tiny portion of our perceptions and actions. To us, that small compartment appears to fill our whole mental cabinet.

Strong emotions are messages from the unconscious.

The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.