self-suggestion

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Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.

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

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

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)

If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.

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