Do we say subconscious or unconscious

subconscious 158 occurrences

That last wonderfully glad thought which had filled brain and heart when she sank down on her fir-boughs had persisted throughout her moments or hours of unconsciousness, pervading her subconscious self gloriously, flowering spontaneously in an awakening mind: Mark King had come back to her in her moment of peril; he had battled for her like the great-hearted hero that he was, he had saved her and had brought her home.

Lately, a competitor with these ancient and honorable terms has come upon the scene as the Subconscious.

The endocrine association stands out as at least the most important physical determinant of the states and processes of the subconscious.

The subconscious, of which the vegetative apparatus is the physical basis, leads back to the internal secretions for the profoundest springs of its secrets.

For centuries the Arab slaver had brought his slave caravans along this path: it may have been fever or the phantasies of disordered subconscious minds half awake in sleep, or the empty night thrilling to the music of crickets, that filled our minds with fancies in the darkness.

He tried vainly to rememberthe clean life, the iron constitution and youthaided perhaps by an indomitable subconscious will protesting against this something that had happened to himwere throwing off the effects of the drug hours before an ordinary man would have regained even a hint of sensibility.

Perhaps it was mental telepathy, thought vibration, subconscious soul communicationor a mere coincident, that caused Chuck, far out on the open range, to speak the thing Old Heck, sitting at supper with Carolyn June, Ophelia and Skinny, at the Quarter Circle KT was thinking.

To utilize these stored-up thoughts, you must express them to others; and to be able to express them well your soul has to soar into this subconscious realm where you have cached these net results of experience.

And some going a little deeper than others into this trance condition, and having no knowledge of the miraculous storing up of truth in the subconscious cells, jump to the conclusion that their intelligence is guided by a spirit not theirs.

When one reaches this conclusion he begins to wither at the top, for he relies on the dead, and ceases to feed the well-springs of his subconscious self.

And as few men ever cultivate the absorbed, reflective or semi-trance state, where the objective mind rests, they never really call on their subconscious treasury for its stores.

But what think you is necessary before a person can come into full possession of his subconscious treasures?

[Relating to intellect], mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic^, spiritual; ghostly; psychical^, psychological; cerebral; animastic^; brainy; hyperphysical^, superphysical^; subconscious, subliminal. immaterial &c 317; endowed with reason.

Though it was entirely subconscious, the real thought in her mind was: "Since he didn't choose to take the chance when he had it, now he shan't have it at all!"

Had this terrible vision of Mrs. Varick been an emanation of Helen Brabazon's own brainsome subconscious knowledge that she, Helen, was now the object of Varick's pursuit?

Without being conscious of the action of the sly, subconscious instinct which prompted it, she began to revolve her friend, Theresa Howland, whose house party Ross was honoring with such an extraordinarily long lingering.

It is a poor mind, or poorly served by its subconscious half, that is taken wholly by surprise by any blow.

There are always forewarnings; and while the surface mind habitually refuses to note them, though they be clear as sunset silhouettes, the subconscious mind is not so stupidso blind under the sweet spells of that arch-enchanter, vanity.

Each time they met and talked and looked on one another, it crept a little more out of their subconscious being towards recognition, that something more dear and wonderful than friendship was between them, and walked between them and drew their hands together.

The sitting-lying chair and its relation to the subconscious.

My present field of consciousness is a centre surrounded by a fringe that shades insensibly into a subconscious more.

What we conceptually identify ourselves with and say we are thinking of at any time is the centre; but our full self is the whole field, with all those indefinitely radiating subconscious possibilities of increase that we can only feel without conceiving, and can hardly begin to analyze.

By diving down into his subconscious region, already prepared by long spiritual training, he gradually succeeded in drawing out further details piece by piece, and finally by infinite practice and prayer welding them together into an intelligible system.

And in the awful stress of excitement there can be no question that Spinny acted out of that subconscious region of the mind which considers and weighs deeds before passing them on to the surface mind, translating them into physical expression and thinking itself responsible for the whole operation.

Of course Newman does not describe it sothat is all a part of his guilelessnesshe speaks of the shadow of a hand upon the wall: but I don't doubt that his subconscious mind thrilled with the sense of a possible escape that way.

unconscious 2769 occurrences

" Any chance incident or remark might turn his thought and speech, unconscious of the transition, from his favorite technicalities back to the past.

Did you, taking advantage of the unconscious and hence defenseless condition of my client, that is, of Mr. Martin Dyke, lean over him and deliberately imprint a" "No!

I went on, and out unconscious.

Surrounded by these apparitions, who lick his face and hands till he is unconscious, the traveller is carried awaywhere, history does not statenever to return.

Marius, still unconscious, was taken to his grandfather's house.

He lay there unconscious.

" Half unconscious, I stammered Lillian's name inquiringly.

It was a dangerous descent, but down went Tom without a moment's hesitation; sick and giddy, on he went until at last he dropped on the grass and lay there unconscious.

These obscure states of unconscious representation, which are present in the mind of man along with states of clear consciousness, make up, in the lowest grade of existence, the whole life of the monad.

Lowest stand the simple or naked monads, which never rise above obscure and unconscious perception and, so to speak, pass their lives in a swoon or sleep.

Hence it was an error when the Cartesians made thought or conscious activityby which, it is true, the spirit is differentiated from the lower beingsto such a degree the essence of spirit that they believed it necessary to deny to it all unconscious perceptions.

The delight of music depends, in his opinion, on an unconscious numbering and measuring of the harmonic and rhythmic relations of tones, aesthetic enjoyment of the beautiful in general, and even sensuous pleasure, on the confused perception of a perfection, order, or harmony.

If thought ceased in deep sleep, we could have no ideas on awakening, since every representation proceeds from a preceding one, even though it be unconscious.

If sensation is to be the mother of thought, and the latter at the same time to preserve its character as original, i.e., as something not obtained from without, sensation must, first, include an unconscious thinking in itself, and, secondly, must itself receive a title to originality and spontaneity.

The primal will is groundless, blind stress, unconscious impulse toward existence; it is one, the one and all, [Greek: en nai pan].

The highest rank, however, belongs to music, since it does not, like the other arts, represent single Ideas, butas an unconscious metaphysic, nay, a second, ideal world above the material worldthe will itself.

When John, after standing off and gazing wordless for a moment at this new son of his, this man he had never seen, in his captain's uniform with bits of ribbon on the breast of it,tried to say how proud he was and choked instead, it was for Mary that he reached out an unconscious, embracing arm, the emotion which would not go into words finding an outlet for itself that way.

Not because she meant toquite unconscious that she was doing any harm ("and of course she isn't, except to a cat like me")that was the maddening, and at the same time, endearing thing about her.

He was actually talking as one talks to a child;kindly, tolerantly, tenderly, but with an unconscious touch of patronage, like one trying to explain awaymisgivings about Santa Claus!

To both the sisters it seemed that they were passing an hour of supreme bitterness; but their strong young hearts, clinging with unconscious tenacity to their right to joy, were at that moment painfully opening and expanding beyond the narrow bounds of childhood.

Nana was simple herself in an amateurish, unconscious sort of way, and I expect she disliked Anonyma's professional rivalry in the matter of simplicity.

Out of the circle came a man bearing unconscious Estelle, blood upon her face, upon her bosom, blood dripping from her hands.

She lay there moaningthe cry of her tortured nerves alone, for her mind was unconscious.

I promised to look in on them in case they should fail to waken, and at the appointed time I put on my sweater and went down to find, as I had expected, both youths slumbering peacefully, blissfully unconscious of the time.

"Then don't say so out loud, as he's not yet unconscious.

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