self-suggestion

NOUN

suggestion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

indication notion suspicion thought

STRONG

allusion association autosuggestion breath clue connotation cue inkling innuendo insinuation intimation overtone reminder shade signification smack symbol symbolism symbolization symbology telltale tinge trace undertone vein whisper wind

WEAK

soupçon

Antonyms

STRONG

information

WEAK

declaration demand order telling

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Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.

From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.

From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert

It is a dream of the hypnotic stratum;—an incoherent self-suggestion starting from and affecting a region below the reach of conscious will.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

A dream-figure may indeed seem to conform to optical laws; but that will be the result of self-suggestion, or of organised memories, and will vary according to the dreamer's visualising power.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

self-suggestion

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