“Metaphorically, the unconscious is like one of our inner organs, your slippery liver or a beet-purple kidney: it’s there, you know it exists because, well, you’re alive, but you can’t see it directly.”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“I’ll watch for you as best I can, but things get muddy out there in the vast subconscious. Remember, it’s not real unless you make it real.”— Nathaniel Halpern, Oliver Bird, Jemaine Clement, imdb.com
“Dreams are supposed to represent your subconscious wishes and conflicts. It's sort of a private movie you write, produce and direct. Only you can't hide your eyes in your dreams, even when they are scaring you to death.”— Donald P. Bellisario, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com
“I need one of those baby monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.”— Steven Wright, imdb.com
“Sometimes I talk to myself fluently in languages I'm unfamiliar with…just to screw with my subconscious.”— Steven Wright, imdb.com
“How does it happen that this subconscious self is such an unconscionable, persistent, consistent, and abnormal liar about itself? Why does it not now and then by some sort of accident tell the truth?”— Minot Savage, ascsi.org
“As Felitti spoke to the 183 people in the program, he found 55 percent had been sexually abused. One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because 'overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.' It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconsc…”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com
“Well, I think I've always been a searcher. But right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called ‘Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.’ I’d never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, n…”— Ellen Degeneres, oprah.com
“You know what’s really weird? You notice that the phone always rings when you’re crying. And what’s really strange is you answer it. You answer it. Even if you don’t want the world to know you’re crying, you still pick up the phone. And I think it’s because subconsciously, you’re reaching out. You w…”— Dane Cook, youtube.com
“No one in art has yet penetrated as far as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and e…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.com
“A very good subconscious sign to look for is if he’s mirroring your actions back at you. This is often an unconscious tell that people have that they’re interested in someone – he won’t even know he’s doing it.”— Rebecca Mercy, vixendaily.com
“It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com