self-suggestion
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Dr Hugh Wingfield stated to the Society for Psychical Research that the case of one of his patients proved that hallucinations could be produced by self-suggestion.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
"It seems probable," says Dr. Wingfield, "that all phenomena capable of being produced by the suggestion of the hypnotiser can also be produced by self-suggestion in a self-suggestive subject."
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Hypnotic agencies, according to Myers, may be simplified into suggestion and self-suggestion.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
Either they somehow never reach the subliminal centres which we wish to affect, or they find those centres preoccupied with some self-suggestion hostile to our behest.
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)
