Quotes About Subconscious

Three elements which balance out: a rural unconscious, an urban subconscious and a cosmopolitan consciousness.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

What is unconscious does not speak and that includes the hidden parts of himself.

The psyche is much smarter than consciousness allows. We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

Once I had a dream that I was sleeping.

Yea, I have dreams. Usually at night when I'm asleep. Why?

I sometimes wonder how people like Bart, who no longer believe in the grace of God, handle their guilt. Perhaps, as Sigmund Freud suggested, they repress it by burying the memories of past sins deep within themselves. But Freud went on to explain that such repression doesn't really work in the long run, and that guilt always emerges from the subconscious, sometimes as phobias and sometimes as neurotic behavior.

Old loves turn up in dreams, still livid at every slight.

You can even invoke dreams, nourish them, and regulate their quantity. For example, to stimulate dreaming, before you go to sleep tell yourself: "I want to remember my dreams," or address the dream directly, "Dreaming Self, send me a dream," or use whatever phrase feels comfortable to you. If you invoke dreams for three nights in a row, generally you will recall a dream by the fourth night. I repeat my phrase three times just to make