In The Moonstone opium removes some characters from conscious control over their actions.
Deepak Chopra, for example, keeps implying that quantum mechanics means that objective reality doesn't exist apart from conscious experience.
In that freedom from conscious anxiety, Greene found the freedom to do what he otherwise couldn't: write.
Few of cricket's issues are born from conscious malice, but they reflect systems that benefit men ahead of women.
As it is passed on from one person to another, it suffers changes from forgetting or from conscious additions or substitutions; in any case, the item changes continually.
If the idea is to free oneself from conscious will, Brown wondered, how can the composer issue decrees of right and wrong?
On another occasion, Einstein described the impulse to grapple with his problems as "a demoniac possession," needing no stimulation from conscious effort of the will.
These poems too inhabit a mezzanine world half a step removed from conscious emotions, with depictions of dreams and the natural world brimming with psychological tensions.
Noting that patients sometimes had difficulty in making free associations, Freud concluded that certain painful experiences were repressed, or held back from conscious awareness.
Conversely, when everything is working to maximum perfection, runners can't really be said to think, either, so blissfully loosed from conscious control are their thoughts.
According to that hypothesis, hysterical symptoms originate through the energy of a mental process being withheld from conscious influence and being diverted into bodily innervation ("Conversion").
