Literary notes about subliminal (AI summary)
The term “subliminal” appears in literary discourse as a means to evoke the hidden, often inexplicable forces operating beneath conscious awareness. It is deployed to describe an inner realm—from an elusive “Subliminal Self” that guides artistic creativity and emotional responses [1], [2] to the subtle cues and impulses that shape dreams, memories, and even supernatural experiences [3], [4], [5]. Authors use it both in a metaphorical sense, as when they hint at an undetected renewal of spirit or a quiet messenger from deep within [6], [7], and in a more analytical framework, discussing its role in phenomena like hypnotism, telepathy, or unexplained cognitive processes [8], [9]. This layered usage enriches narratives by suggesting that beneath the veneer of conscious thought lies a dynamic, restless world with its own power to influence the human condition [10], [11].
- Myers’s theories, including that of the Subliminal Self, embody all the preceding ones and agree in details with them.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz - The result is to make me feel that we all have potentially a 'subliminal' self, which may make at any time irruption into our ordinary lives.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - If she was unhappy, her unhappiness lay too deep in subliminal abysses to struggle to the surface of her consciousness.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King - At one end of the scale we find dreams ,—a normal subliminal product, but of less practical value than any form of sane supraliminal thought.
— from Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers - When subliminal operations change the apparent phase of personality from the state of waking in the direction of trance, we have hypnotism .
— from Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers - She felt within her some shy subliminal renewal, as silent yet as implacable as the insidious first workings of spring.
— from The Silver Poppy by Arthur Stringer - We get past the normal consciousness, and can give our orders to the “subconscious” or “subliminal”—which means “below the threshold”.
— from Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Hill - These studies and experiments relate to telepathy, automatism, and the action of the subliminal self.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason - This subliminal (below the threshold) mind is swifter than the conscious mind and over-reaches it in a flash.
— from Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Victor Mapes - Our subliminal self, or the subconscious mind, is the storehouse of all the impressions that we gather through our experiences during our lifetime.
— from Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Swami Abhedananda - We must, however, be on our guard against the too facile use of words such as "telepathy" and "subliminal consciousness" as a cloak to our ignorance.
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond
