self-suggestion
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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)
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)
To the readers of this chapter, however, there will be nothing surprising in my own inclination to include all these efforts at health under the general category of schemes of self-suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.
From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
I pass on to cases of the production by suggestion or self-suggestion of hyper�sthesia,—of a degree of sensory delicacy which overpasses the ordinary level, and the previous level of the subject himself.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
