Are you sure that you aren't being subconsciously manipulated into making decisions that you wouldn't normally make? ... Now that I've established that there is a conscious and subconscious mind, I will explain both. The conscious mind has the privilege of accepting, rejecting or modifying perceptions. ... However, if it is the subconscious mind that listens to this statement, then it just accepts it and believes that it is stupid. ... Advertisers" subliminal messages often concentrate on the taboos of society to stimulate the mind. ...

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Of freedom of the mind. ... Finding truth (and thus everything that it is) is the ultimate subconscious goal of all struggling. ... When these things are reacted to and conformed to by behavior in some way, it indicates a mind in a limited bubble, bound by the illusion of duality -- and in this way, not privy to ultimate truth; and in this way, not free, subconsciously lonely, and in the dark -- all, obviously, to varying degrees with each person, depending on how much, for whatever reason, he focuses on his duality and reacts to it. ... In this way, people have control of and react t...

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However, Jim's subconscious picked up on the images and triggered his sensation of hunger. The theater also released the scent of popcorn throughout the room in an extremely small dose to stimulate Jim subconsciously. ... Once again, these signals were only picked up by Jim's subconscious senses. ... "Mind Writer" is a well-known subliminal series by Dr. ... Subliminal messages are words or images with the intent of going beneath the level of consciousness and causing a subconscious effect on the perceiver (Myer 141). ...

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The entire story is told from the mind of the disturbed wife, the narrator. ... It dwells in the mind so!" ... As the narrator's mind continues to wander uncontrollably, she leads us to this next quote, which moves us further into her disturbed mind. ... It also shows subconscious signs of resentment towards her role as a wife. ... I am sympathetic to the woman (disturbed wife) in this story because she is definitely a prisoner, struggling within her own mind, and reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" through her mind clearly enhances our insight and interpretation of the story. ...

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Something abstract that looms about her mind. ... Garner clearly shows her sense of consideration for her state of mind. ... Whether intentional or subconscious, Garner places a keyhole on the head of the mannequin. ... This keyhole is not for locking Garner out of her mind. ... The lock keeps Garner from freeing her mind of this recession and keeps her struggling on alone. ...

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The Id, the irrational, emotional, and unconscious part of one's mind, is obviously represented by Jack. ... Freud's main idea of the Id was the seeking of pleasure; it is the primitive mind. ... Lastly, the face-painted masks that Jack and the others wear symbolically remove any personality or emotion from the boys, placing them in a subconscious state as they lose all sight of themselves; with the masks, by definition, they become the Id. ... Freud's theory says that the Ego is the rational component of the mind. ... This serves as the moral part of the mind. ...

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There are certain ways our mind interprets things we encounter in the world. Our mind can fundamentally follow one of two approaches: bottom-up or top down processing. ... Our mind has the ability to distinguish the two and, based on the object, apply the correct process. ... Because we have past knowledge in our minds, we know that a bird is a small creature with feathers that can fly. ... I wonder how these processes transfer over into the subconscious dream world. ...

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An observer receives these specific subliminal messages subconsciously without realizing he or she even noticed it. However, there is no information that proves that people are able to learn new ideas through their subconscious state of mind. ... The plan of the experiment was for the messages to reach the audience subconsciously. ... In response to Key's analogy, Walter Weir, a writer in Advertising Age, answered Key with the following response, "Keep in mind also that Kent cigarettes were named after Herbert Kent, a president of Lorillard at the time the cigarettes were introduced." ...

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Only now does the reader realise that the assumed reality was in fact part of the protagonist's subconsciousness. ... This discovery encourages the audience to have open minds and can transform our opinions and beliefs on the situation of asylum seekers which can ultimate change our view of the world. ...

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The idea of mood regulatory function of dreams is supported by Hartmann (2002) who argues that dreaming makes connections guided by emotional concerns with the mind. ... TST suggests that to increasing reproductive success entails experiencing and responding repeatedly to a variety of threat simulation in dreams over time, one becomes better prepared to appraise and cope with threats (p. 897) subconsciously on a neurological and cognitive level and even consciously on a behavioural level. ... Cartwright and her colleagues' (2003) study of depression found that those who reported to hav...

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