The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / [Louis Waldstein].

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / [Louis Waldstein]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abnormal sensations, as Tissie and others have pointed out, disturb the unconscious conditions of sleep and create dreams, those splanchnic stimuli, which are too slight to lead to per- ceptions during the waking hours, induce corresponding mental activity. u We are not conscious of such sensations ” means that our attention is not concentrated in that direction, — that we have not learnt to appreciate these slight constantly present and constantly recur- ring impressions, — and, moreover, the fact that attention is directed into other channels pre- vents their action upon the mind. There are, however, individuals who suffer acutely from the continued presence of these sensations, which need not be violent or pronounced. Every physician meets with such cases frequently among the large class of nervous patients. And now, returning to the impressions that come from without, that are received by our sensory organs, properly so called, we can divide these into two classes, which some- times, it is true, merge into each other.