stream of consciousness

Noun

Meaning

The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.

A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
Synonym: interior monologue

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Examples

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. Haruki Murakami

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness. Robert Lanza

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. Dan Harmon

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time. Roland Joffe

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. Gary Oldman

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness. António Damásio

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