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  • My subconscious had spared me for years, when, out of nowhere, I had the dream again a few weeks after I graduated from law school.  (source)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not fully aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • Sometimes it seemed an insane idea, just as it had on the night Hermione had proposed it, but at others, he had found himself thinking about the spells that had served him best in his various encounters with Dark creatures and Death Eaters — found himself, in fact, subconsciously planning lessons…  (source)
    subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not fully aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • The universe and my subconscious may be conspiring against me.  (source)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
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  • A subconscious desire for me to stop him from shooting himself?  (source)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • 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)
    subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • 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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness. Also note that many people use this as a synonym for unconsciousness; though experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
  • The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record.  (source)
    subconscious = the part of the mind of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • Even before I started jumping into the split, my hands were already subconsciously preparing to protect me.†  (source)
    subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • "Anyone else you want to see?" I started to say no, but again, my subconscious betrayed me. I thought of Trey.  (source)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware (She didn't try to think of someone and work her way up to Trey. He just popped into her mind)
  • 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)
    subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • "...and you can't even tell a subconscious suicide when you talk to one. ... He sounded just like the kind of guy who'd commit suicide by taking a cold shower and then leaving the windows open to die of pneumonia!"  (source)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • 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)
    subconsciously = of mental activity of which one is not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
  • 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)
    subconscious = mental activity of which we are not aware, but which can influence feelings and behavior
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