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  • It's like he was cross-examining my subconscious, looking for some clue he might have missed the ninety-ninth time around.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she wondered if it was her horror of being married to someone she didn't love that had caused her, subconsciously, to shut herself off.†   (source)
  • A subconscious desire for me to stop him from shooting himself?†   (source)
  • "What" asked Montag of that other self, the subconscious idiot that ran babbling at times, quite independent of will, habit, and conscience.†   (source)
  • I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues.†   (source)
  • THE UNIVERSE AND my subconscious may be conspiring against me.†   (source)
  • Danny is doing subconsciously what these so-called mystics and mind readers do quite consciously and cynically.†   (source)
  • She sat beside me, and when I noticed she wasn't wearing her wedding ring, she subconsciously moved her hand.†   (source)
  • Cosmology, let's see …. what we believe, subconsciously, implicitly, or both, how the universe works—you want to add something?†   (source)
  • It sold because the mass subconscious was ready for it.†   (source)
  • My subconscious had dredged up exactly the images I'd been trying so desperately to avoid.†   (source)
  • When he published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he unlocked the sexual potential of the subconscious.†   (source)
  • I was good at math, I had the failure rate memorized, burnt into my subconscious.†   (source)
  • He argued against completely eliminating the golden arches, claiming they had great Freudian importance in the subconscious mind of consumers.†   (source)
  • Every time they build a city on the banks of a river, they remember their heritage, buried deep in their subconscious.†   (source)
  • Other people's optimism manifested itself, perhaps subconsciously, as opportunism: an inherent belief, in defiance of all logic, that although war was bound to come — that had been decided long ago — its actual outbreak would be delayed, so they could live life to the full a little longer.†   (source)
  • I think there's an incredible amount of subconscious energy.†   (source)
  • The cheating, that had been preemptive, a subconscious reaction to five years yoked to a madwoman: Of course I'd find myself attracted to an uncomplicated, good-natured hometown girl.†   (source)
  • I can imitate the father he's supposed to have, but subconsciously, at the Quality level, he sees through it and knows his real father isn't here.†   (source)
  • Below sea level—or below the threshold of the conscious—is the 'subconscious,' or the unconscious.†   (source)
  • His subconscious knew what his conscious mind did not guess—that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.†   (source)
  • This is what Blomkvist had noticed subconsciously and which suddenly rose to the surface when the bus passed the exact same spot.†   (source)
  • One half of my brain was keeping track of my conversation with Vee, but the other, more subconscious half had strayed.†   (source)
  • Subconsciously she has written it with the censor in mind, hoping to convey the idea that the Smith family is really a well-ordered unit: "Please do not judge all by Perry?†   (source)
  • He glanced down at the baby in his wife's arms, a blue-eyed, coffee-colored mixture of his own WASP genes and Selena's never-ending limbs and ebony skin, and he reached for the remote to turn down the volume, just in case his son was taking any of this in subconsciously.†   (source)
  • Moody was irritable, too, and I wondered if he was reacting subconsciously to my sinking spirits.†   (source)
  • How, even stuck in some sort of subconscious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart' in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love.†   (source)
  • Help yourself and your friends probe into the secrets of the subconscious.†   (source)
  • Like the first time I'd seen it, I couldn't help think that it was familiar, something pricking my subconscious, as weird as that sounded.†   (source)
  • Even before I started jumping into the split, my hands were already subconsciously preparing to protect me.†   (source)
  • But more than that, he was held back by a nagging in his subconscious; a sixth sense that was saying things to him in a still, small voice: Wait.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been Vlad's bad dreams at all, but Otis's r eality, reflected in Vlad's subconscious.†   (source)
  • Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness.†   (source)
  • It was the Thomas from his dreams-from his subconscious-that filled his mind now.†   (source)
  • Did you know about the subconscious?" he asked me, and when I somewhat hesitantly nodded, he said, "You see?†   (source)
  • No dreams, she ordered her subconscious.†   (source)
  • It's obsessed his conscious, which can only mean that it's inflamed his subconscious.†   (source)
  • You are simultaneously hearing, in your subconscious brain, these words and phrases translated into your native tongue.†   (source)
  • I don't know why—maybe my subconscious knew that I wanted to run the ball.†   (source)
  • You have a subconscious wish to be fired.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's subconscious now.†   (source)
  • Note to self: Give subconscious a pep talk re: better dreams.†   (source)
  • "What happened to Judge Narragansett?" she asked involuntarily, and wondered what subconscious connection had made her ask it.†   (source)
  • The motionless rain had been wonderful, so she might as well see what wonders her subconscious had cooked up this time.†   (source)
  • There's a mind that be workin' that's constant, that never sleep… it's yo subconscious mind, which never go to sleep on you.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, I think I subconsciously knew what was happening.†   (source)
  • That subconscious revelation added a lot of thicker lavers to the embarrassment.†   (source)
  • "I didn't realize," Alessandro said, continuing to graze upon flower petals, "that German was the language of my subconscious."†   (source)
  • But today it is as if Lincoln subconsciously knows what is about to happen.†   (source)
  • Crenshinibon, with its subconscious intrusions, had coached Kessell well.†   (source)
  • I supposed that deep down Ben knew this, and even if he didn't intend it to, it played in his subconscious and affected his decisions and behavior toward me.†   (source)
  • The ease with which Leila's story flowed from her subconscious to her conscious surprised her.†   (source)
  • And I don't think it's a subconscious plea for sympathy.†   (source)
  • I found myself calling her Angeline, although I have never been able to trace the origin of that name in the murky depths of my own subconscious.†   (source)
  • They say you can only dream about people you've seen—either in real life or on television—that we don't have the power to create new faces in our minds, but that we recycle the thousands and thousands of faces subconsciously stored in our memories.†   (source)
  • At nine o'clock Randy awoke, aware of a half-dozen problems accumulated in his subconscious.†   (source)
  • When we put our hands on the disc, even though we may try to avoid influencing its movements, our subconscious starts playing tricks.†   (source)
  • Sitting down, I lifted my gaze and looked out the window and was suddenly made aware of another element which must have worked on my subconscious and caused me to be drawn to this place.†   (source)
  • Subconscious twinges of jealousy had been tormenting her.†   (source)
  • "Luck," I said, "and subconscious sneakiness, I guess.†   (source)
  • "I took Mary to the park…… " "I am now cutting a captain's inspection…… " "Herbert is now trimming the barberry bushes…… " "Yesterday I sent you a two-pound box of candy for your birthday…… " A later generation, with hindsight's infallible judgment, found the atomic bombing easy to condemn as a crime in which we had all connived, if only subconsciously.†   (source)
  • But he was so earnest, so doggedly determined to sweat it out — he didn't have any aptitude but he kept on trying — that I must have done that, subconsciously.†   (source)
  • Or some subconscious perception of movement?†   (source)
  • You've forgotten you dreamed, or rather you only remember subconsciously.†   (source)
  • Destruction loomed up in the little peeper's subconscious and in that instant Powell realized that no Guild conditioning could ever have prevented Tate from destroying himself.†   (source)
  • The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record.†   (source)
  • It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does.†   (source)
  • Dr. Edmonds's patter about inductive reasoning and subconscious logic was just that: patter.†   (source)
  • -Sol hesitated, sensing a trap, trying to see where his subconscious interlocutor was heading.†   (source)
  • "Maybe the mass subconscious is ready for this," I said.†   (source)
  • If precognitive trances are possible, they're probably functions of the subconscious mind.†   (source)
  • But I believe my subconscious might be trying to tell me something.†   (source)
  • Freud said that the subconscious never speaks to us in literal language.†   (source)
  • The subconscious figure is pulling the strings.†   (source)
  • I believe your subconscious is letting these memories surface at its own pace.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Gaea was whispering in Octavian's ear, influencing his decisions subconsciously.†   (source)
  • There was something so familiar about this, it was like a tug on my subconscious.†   (source)
  • They must have subconsciously felt our presence.†   (source)
  • You can work with this haunting your subconscious.†   (source)
  • Like a subconscious garbage disposal running in reverse.†   (source)
  • Maybe subconsciously, he glanced at Annabeth.†   (source)
  • But her subconscious had been trained to hear this distant cry, day or night.†   (source)
  • In the back of his subconscious, he thought: Really?†   (source)
  • The only surprise was my subconscious interest.†   (source)
  • Her face contorts, a subconscious effort to make itself less beautiful.†   (source)
  • I don't ask for it (maybe subconsciously), do I?†   (source)
  • That must've triggered Leo's subconscious.†   (source)
  • Subconsciously there are many people you hate.†   (source)
  • My subconscious had stored Edward away in flawless detail, saving him for this final moment.†   (source)
  • Maybe I've hit the water and died, his subconscious said.†   (source)
  • That's what the subconscious is, 'geheimnisvoll.'†   (source)
  • But your subconscious mind is steady workin'.†   (source)
  • My subconscious had warned me before I'd known I was carrying her.†   (source)
  • Katie's eyelids fluttered as she dreamed, her subconscious working overtime.†   (source)
  • He realized that he was watching her as he said it and forced away the subconscious implications.†   (source)
  • "German is the language of my subconscious," the hallucination replied.†   (source)
  • What if I ask for it somehow, maybe subconsciously?†   (source)
  • Something in her subconscious, something obvious, something just out of reach.†   (source)
  • They kept on even after we'd fallen sleep, because Hema believed one could prime the subconscious.†   (source)
  • Lift the rug of your subconscious and sweep all the dirt under.†   (source)
  • Maybe not consciously, but subconsciously.†   (source)
  • Subconsciously, at least, she blamed me for Shiva.†   (source)
  • We none of us can entirely control our subconscious desires.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she'd influenced him subconsciously.†   (source)
  • Did you know that very often the subconscious expresses itself in dreams?†   (source)
  • Option two: My subconscious mind was giving me what it thought I wanted.†   (source)
  • Quivering, his subconscious "bush radar" at full power, Rod moved silently forward.†   (source)
  • Symbol of subconscious hopes and nightly dreams.†   (source)
  • His lips moved subconsciously, fighting hard to piece the proper sounds together.†   (source)
  • But Reich was subconsciously compelled to misunderstand the message.†   (source)
  • Moreau de Tours considers the dream to be the key to the knowledge of mental illness, and Maine de Biran held that conscious life was only a sort of island, floating upon a much vaster subconscious, and drawing thoughts up from it like fish.†   (source)
  • This simple knowledge, today's date — which was so obvious that I must have been subconsciously repressing it — made the deadline I'd been impatiently counting down toward feel like a date with the firing squad.†   (source)
  • Dreadful as all this news was, it could not disturb our animal pleasure in still being alive ourselves, and knowing that those» who had escaped death were no longer in any immediate danger, although the subconscious mind repressed these feelings out of shame.†   (source)
  • He noted that Las Vegas resorts were now experimenting with "signature scents" in their casinos, hoping the subtle aromas would subconsciously make people gamble more money.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the Garden of Eden [our minds] represents our subconscious and our conscious talking to each other.†   (source)
  • It's always present, a gigantic subconscious database of poetry (and fiction, since she's read that, too).†   (source)
  • Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people…what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.†   (source)
  • Not that he gives two hoots what day of the week it is: in Heaven, as in the subconscious — or so we're told — there is no time.†   (source)
  • Wang subconsciously thought of her as the long-obsolete DOS operating system: a blank, black screen, a bare "C:\>" prompt, a blinking cursor.†   (source)
  • …of Owen Meany's voice speaking out in the vestry office—not to mention the forceful revelation of my mother's "murder weapon," the "instrument of death"—was not so much a demonstration of the power of God as it was an indication of the power of the subconscious; namely, the Rev. Mr. Merrill thought that bath of us had been "subconsciously motivated"—in my case, to use Owen Meany's voice, or to make Mr. Merrill use it; and in Mr. Merrill's case, to confess to me that he was my father.†   (source)
  • We as humans have not yet awakened from the deep sleep and we have not become one with our inner woman [subconscious].†   (source)
  • We might add, if we're being generous, that they run amok because they are having direct, raw encounters with the subconscious.†   (source)
  • Consciously or subconsciously, he usually chose corners of the city that held some aspect of the wild: a dried lakebed in a park, the freshly turned soil of a construction site, a weed struggling out of cracks in cement.†   (source)
  • It comes in through people's rear windows, bounces off their rearview mirrors, projects a fiery mask across their eyes, reaches into their subconscious, and unearths terrible fears of being pinned, fully conscious, under a detonating gas tank, makes them want to pull over and let the Deiverator overtake them in his black chariot of pepperoni fire.†   (source)
  • Subconsciously, I had known from the first that the German fairytales, of camps for Jews where 'good working conditions' awaited them on resettlement were lies — that we could expect only death at the hands of the Germans.†   (source)
  • What Lawrence does, really, is employ geography as a metaphor for the psyche—when his characters go south, they are really digging deep into their subconscious, delving into that region of darkest fears and desires.†   (source)
  • So the woman [Eve in the garden, our subconscious] gave the apple [a new experience] to her husband [our subconscious, Adam].†   (source)
  • That's why he gave us a helper [our subconscious, our inner woman] to be with us through our journey of learning.†   (source)
  • At qst the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, out I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septera, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-stanclra-g freedom of the majority of the rooms.†   (source)
  • Conscious on one side of the net, subconscious on the other, serving some cockamamie image back and forth.†   (source)
  • She represents our subconscious.†   (source)
  • His subconscious is maybe visualizing whatever happened in a symbolic way … as a dead woman who's alive again, zombie, undead, ghoul, you pick your term.†   (source)
  • The walking dead woman as a symbol for dead emotions, dead lives, that just won't give up and go away … but because she's a subconscious figure, she's also him.†   (source)
  • Consciously or subconsciously, she'd stopped doing those things that would give her the opportunity to think about herself.†   (source)
  • Unless, of course, he was wondering if it was some sort of subconscious statement as to how she was feeling toward him.†   (source)
  • It's like the noise begins to trail behind the engine by a millisecond that the brain can pick up only subconsciously, and I knew we were in trouble.†   (source)
  • I wondered whether I had been naive, or whether, even subconsciously, I'd been trying to protect my daughter.†   (source)
  • Nothing is happening, yet the mind whirls with ever darkening images, subconsciously preparing for the worst.†   (source)
  • There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in their entirety.†   (source)
  • But she did believe in the power of the subconscious mind to put together pieces that the conscious mind might miss.†   (source)
  • Maybe, subconsciously, I hoped I would see something different without the glass of the windshield in the way.†   (source)
  • Consciously or subconsciously?†   (source)
  • It must have been a subconscious decision, one based on the fact that both his friends had a tendency to be irritating at times.†   (source)
  • She made a point to cross her arms as she said it, then subconsciously brought a hand to her ribs where a dull ache remained.†   (source)
  • Then I reached up, nonchalantly, and brushed at one of my teeth, hoping that somehow she would subconsciously pick up on this, like osmosis, and get the hint.†   (source)
  • It would be a subconscious compulsion.†   (source)
  • Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not at the subconscious level where savage things grow.†   (source)
  • But your subconscious hasn't forgotten.†   (source)
  • The subconscious was funny like that.†   (source)
  • "Look how the cars are all veering away from the Manhattan exits, like they're getting a subconscious message to turn back:' "I don't know:" Annabeth sounded really frustrated.†   (source)
  • Mark, Pig, and I had all placed our hands beneath the table, a subconscious gesture, because we did not want to taunt or hurt Bobby with our rings.†   (source)
  • Instinctively, so he presumed (though, in reality, it was another subconscious suggestion from Crenshinibon that guided him) Kessell understood his role in fulfilling his own request.†   (source)
  • Yes, with your talent, my friend, you could work subconscious miracles, soothe the aching id and heal the wounded superego.†   (source)
  • In my subconscious, I was making plans to join them; it was only when I was awake and alert and felt Claire kicking me from within that I realized I had to stay.†   (source)
  • The idea had been forming in my head for a long time, I guess, but my subconscious had been trying to suppress it.†   (source)
  • It's a kind of subconscious, schizophrenic fibbing, if you ask me, and if those parents don't have guilt complexes, I don't know who has.†   (source)
  • And suddenly the significance of the package hung over the mailbox door came to her, hit her like an arrow fired up from her subconscious mind, an idea she had not quite been able to get hold of before.†   (source)
  • He was not a stupid man, and while he would have been impatient with Andy Masen's point-to-point kind of logic (he had dealt with the horror of Frank Dodd and understood that sometimes there was no logic),he arrived at his own mostly solid conclusions in much the same way, if on a more subconscious level.†   (source)
  • Kessell's own subconscious recollections of Ten-Towns when he had spotted the column of smoke had stirred the relic's hunger, so it now used the same empathetic power of suggestion on Kessell.†   (source)
  • They were often the last sounds I heard before I fell asleep and they would register in my subconscious.†   (source)
  • You're always blabbing about the subconscious, and you can't even tell a subconscious suicide when you talk to one.†   (source)
  • Victor was a figment of his imagination, and Thibault knew that his subconscious had conjured up the image.†   (source)
  • She was glad they had decided to leave her alone, because she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply, lest she discover a jewel of selfishness glowing and winking at her from the black velvet of her subconscious.†   (source)
  • Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?†   (source)
  • On a subconscious level, they seemed to realize they craved structure in their lives, and Allison was exactly what they'd needed.†   (source)
  • There was no recoil to the elastic fabric now; in that instant of raw force, I saw that the backlash I'd felt before was of my own making—I had been clinging to that invisible part of me in self-defense, subconsciously unwilling to let it go.†   (source)
  • The anger was what I wanted to hear—false, fabricated evidence that he cared, a dubious gift from my subconscious.†   (source)
  • Like the subconscious kind.†   (source)
  • It was a stupid, churlish thing to say, a primitive and subconscious urge to wound her so as to assuage my pain and guilt.†   (source)
  • In that moment, he was thinking about poison and what it might mean; there wasn't room in his subconscious to process anything other than what he needed to do next.†   (source)
  • Some part of me, my subconscious maybe, never stopped believing that you still cared whether I lived or died.†   (source)
  • I could see no option three, so I hoped it was the second option and this was just my subconscious running amuck, rather than something I would need to be hospitalized for.†   (source)
  • I wasn't paying attention to the familiar road, letting the sound of the engine deaden my brain and silence the worries, when my subconscious delivered a verdict it must have been working on for some time without my knowledge.†   (source)
  • Without being aware of it, I subconsciously identified Miss Glover as being a prime enemy on the island.†   (source)
  • How often had she heard Rudolf Hoss order his aide Scheffler to put in a telephone call to Herr Durrfeld at the Buna factory without realizing (except in her subconscious) that the recipient of the call was her romantic fixation of long ago?†   (source)
  • My subconscious must be a watchdog.†   (source)
  • He had thick, strong hands, but the clasp was the same as that I'd encountered in many fighters and wrestlers or other very powerful men, either subconsciously afraid of hurting, or so conscious of their strength they have no need to impress.†   (source)
  • "Subconscious memory," murmured Rupert.†   (source)
  • The necessity for checking all cover for dangerous animals and keeping a tree near him always in mind gave his subconscious something familiar to chew on.†   (source)
  • JEAN: Subconsciously, me?†   (source)
  • He pretends to be open-minded and sceptical, but it's clear that he would never have spent so much time and effort in this field unless he had some subconscious faith.†   (source)
  • And there was something about the question itself, something ancient and primordial, something that disturbed the hidden and oft lost mythology of my own youth; I felt something stir as I thought about the wet witch, and knew that a feeling in my subconscious was rising like an air bubble to the surface.†   (source)
  • Her subconscious?†   (source)
  • I wanted to ask him to tell me in greater detail the circumstances of Maria's death—probably not knowing at the time, however, that my subconscious was already beginning to grapple with that death as the germinal idea for the novel so lamentably hanging fire on my writing table.†   (source)
  • Even in play, part of his attention had been subconsciously focused on the ever-present problem of survival, the never satisfied search for food.†   (source)
  • He had subconsciously assumed that the Overlords possessed all knowledge and all power-that they understood, and were probably responsible fbr, the things that had been happening to Jeff.†   (source)
  • Some inner logic persuaded us both that such moments of supreme intuition followed from perfectly natural "keys"—circumstances which had been buried in memory or had lain dormant in the subconscious.†   (source)
  • I realized, in a stunning rush of clarity, that I had banished her from my thoughts during that aborted foray into Virginia for the simple reason that my subconscious had forbidden me to foresee or to accept what my mind in its all too excruciating awareness now insisted upon: that something terrible was going to happen to her, and to Nathan, and that my desperate journey to Brooklyn could in no way alter the fate they had embraced.†   (source)
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