self-suggestion

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By self-suggestion before sleep Stevenson could secure a visual and dramatic intensity of dream-representation which furnished him with the motives for some of his most striking romances.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Any self-suggestion, conscious or unconscious, which places before the supraliminal intelligence visual images apparently matured elsewhere?

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

A man may even deny the very existence of spirit, and thus by a subtle but efficacious species of self-suggestion prevent its manifestation in himself.

From Spirit and Music by Hunt, H. Ernest

No recorded cases of self-suggestion, I think, are more instructive than those published by Dr. Hugh Wingfield in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. v. p.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep.

From A Fine Fix by Dongen, H. R. van