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Quotes About Subconscious

The orange light looks like a gasoline fire. It comes in through people's rear windows, bounces off their rearview mirrors, projects a fiery mask across their eyes, reaches into their subconscious, and unearths terrible fears of being pinned, fully conscious, under a detonating gas tank, makes them want to pull over and let the Deliverator overtake them in his black chariot of pepperoni fire.
~ Neal Stephenson
His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
~ Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett
He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.
~ Neil Strauss
They'd leave open loops (or unfinished metaphors and stories) in my mind that they'd close a week later. They'd play music designed to elicit specific psychological reactions. They'd put me into trances so deep that hours went by in the blink of an eye.
~ Neil Strauss
Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious
~ Neville Goddard
Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
~ Neville Goddard
There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in their entirety
~ Nicholas Sparks
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
~ Michael Zaslow
I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.
~ Lou Doillon
It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.
~ Jon Hopkins
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
~ Anthony Browne
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
~ Arthur Erickson
At the alpha level, your imagination acts powerfully on your subconsciousness mind and therefore your imaginings are powerfully effective in producing the desired result. It is believed that our subconscious mind represents nearly 90 percent of our mental capacity, which is why influencing your subconscious mind produces such powerful effects.
~ Chris Prentiss
A writer's unconscious is difficult to read, but the imagination is rooted in the unconscious.
~ Christopher Bram
I have kept this diary doggedly, day by day, because I believe a continuous record, no matter how full of trivialities, will always gradually reveal something of the subconscious mind behind it. I've never regretted keeping a diary yet. There are always a few nuggets of literary value under all that sand.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Think without thinking, so that you act as if out of instinct and not reason.
~ Christopher Paolini
This is because fears often partly originate from a subconscious reaction to a poor plan or a lack of a plan (this is also where procrastination comes from).
~ Tucker Max
Only later we learned that by fainting Peter was protecting himself from the awareness of his wish that the mother of his early childhood would die.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
Time worked unhurriedly, conscientiously. First the man was expelled from life, to reside instead in people's memories. Then he lost his right to residence in people's memories, sinking down into their subconscious minds and jumping out at someone only occasionally, like a jack-in-the-box, frightening them with the unexpectedness of his sudden, momentary appearances.
~ Vasily Grossman
le reve est l'aquarium de la nuit.
~ Victor Hugo
Le rêve est l'aquarium de la nuit
~ Victor Hugo
In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
~ Victor Hugo
Of course, the ways we carry dysfunction through our family lineage are not so funny. To break the chain, I must pause to ask myself: What dysfunctional behaviors do I practice by habits that come from my own subconscious psychological patterning because of my upbringing? Emotional patterns and ways of being are handed down from generation to generation like family heirlooms—and while many may be positive, many can also be oppressive.
~ Kristine Carlson
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch