subliminal self
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Wells's fables were a kind of automatic writing – messages from his subliminal self that his conscious mind dismissed.
From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2011
O this subliminal self of ours, how it bends us hither and thither, as the solid hemisphere does the little human figure upon it, posing with a seeming will of his own!
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Deyer, they are all simply methods of securing such a condition by gazing fixedly at a bright object, as best to facilitate communication between the ordinary or primary self, and the secondary or subliminal self.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood
X. is asleep, but his subliminal self is on the alert—like the second self of the somnambulist or subject in the hypnotic trance—it sees that unless checked there will be a destructive conflagration.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood