These pressures can affect how people view themselves and their capabilities at a subconscious level.

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They creep into our minds, shaping our perceptions of the world on a subconscious level, tricking us into betraying our values.

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Everything is so full of intense color and I realized that, on a subconscious level at least, I've been influenced by Indian style ...

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Now, the emotional part of our brains, working on a subconscious level, is trying to protect us from what it perceives to be a potential danger.

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The second problem is that, while it is very unlikely that you will be caught, maintaining a complex story imposes a cognitive load that will make you, at least on a subconscious level, seem less genuine.

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Maybe the good idea was heard at a subconscious or subliminal level, not clearly at the conscious level.

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These are shown in the car park 14 floors below street level, accessible only by lift, as if buried in Mayfair's subconscious, and lit by five wall-size light boxes showing an enlarged detail of horses legs, taken from Piero della Francesca's Arezzo Fresco Cycle.

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