self-suggestion
Britishnoun
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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 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
These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
I passed out temporarily just as a result of self-suggestion.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
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)
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