Unconscious thought Quotes

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Man knows much more than he understands.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

We control the content of our dreams.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.