self-suggestion
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
The records of spontaneous somnambulism are full of predictions made by the subject as to his own case, and accomplished, presumably by self-suggestion, but without help from clocks, at the precise minute foretold.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
