Quotes About Subconscious

The 'unconscious'...is simply the pre-objective, oneiric background of all perception.

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.

In expecting to grow "old" at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image for our Creative Mechanism to accomplish.

if you would picture the end result—see the ball going where you wanted it to go—and have the confidence to know that it was going to do what you wanted, your subconscious would take over and direct your muscles correctly.

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.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard.

that logic and reason, it turns out, are not at the center of our decision-making processes.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.

The Olo believe that's why we sleep in the first place—so we can listen to and deal with the other folks who're living in our heads.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Listening is not about simply hearing physical words or sounds, they are often a nuisance; listening is a surrender to the moment with a quiet mind and an open heart. We are almost never in this place. We live in the illusionary world of subconscious thoughts with a full and busy mind. And sadly, a heart that is all too often closed to self/Self. Honour yourself by learning to truly listen. Go to Contents

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

We bury what we don't want to know. And sometimes it comes out in odd ways

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

His fixation in the Oedipus phase also manifested in his selection of victims. They represented his sister. The female victims were mostly women in the prime of their lives, except for the little girl who happened to be present when Mhlengwa raped her mother. Only the last three victims were in their forties and fifties, indicating that subconsciously his anger had shifted from his sister to his mother.

The women represented his sister, whom he had adored and who had abandoned him. He was still subconsciously in love with her, as she fulfilled the mother-role in the Oedipus triangle.

to become a serial killer, a person must have fixated in one or more of the psychosexual developmental phases, which caused a fantasy to evolve in the subconscious.

But the urge is their own subconscious, which they can control, as proven by the sometimes long cooling-off periods during which they commit no murders, and by the fact that some of them refrain from murdering all their victims.

Satanists will commit murder in honour of the Devil, but serial killers commit murder for their own subconscious psychological gain. Satanists operate in cults, serial killers mainly work alone.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

The insight presumably occurs when a subconscious connection between ideas fits so well that it is forced to pop out into awareness, like a cork held underwater breaking out into the air after it is released.

Now I had to acquire the skill of how to forget things the easiest and the fastest. Dreams are forgotten as soon as you pass through the nearest door. What remains is only the frame. But how to forget the language you dream in and grew up with?