subconscious
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"It's better to get out of that environment. Negative things are happening in the subconscious and you have to change to get into a better state."
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
And then there are the rectangular prisms jutting out of the floor, standing 20 feet apart from the last, with LED screens blasting clips from the movie into viewers’ subconscious.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
"If we tell ourselves that the machine will do it for us, we never make the mistakes that allow us to access our subconscious" where true creativity lies, he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
Given the dynamic, subconscious and autonomic nature of interpersonal synchrony, we should all probably give ourselves a break if, unlike Will Rogers, we cannot claim to like everyone we meet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
“What?” asked Montag of that other self, the subconscious idiot that ran babbling at times, quite independent of will, habit, and conscience.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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