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• n  a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment

• But it can be "switched off" by unconsciousness from injury or anesthesia, more often by acute emotional shock or physical pain.
• Physician Winter, a Manhattan psychosomaticist, was impressed by Hubbard's theory that the mind can register impressions ("engrams") even during unconsciousness.
• My head was slammed against the wall until I collapsed into unconsciousness.

• consciousness

News & Articles

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• Winkeler: Good for Rose, bad for Americans
  Streams of unconsciousness from the world of sports:
  June 19, 2013 - The Southern Illinoisan
• Alleged girlfriend abuser begins trial
  A 57-year-old Burlingame man accused of strangling his live-in girlfriend into unconsciousness and smashing her cellphone with a fire extinguisher when she tried calling 911 began trial Tuesday on charges of domestic violence and assault.
  June 13, 2013 - San Mateo Daily Journal
• Rewards offered in two domestic violence cases
  SAN DIEGO – San Diego County Crime Stoppers Thursday dangled $1,000 rewards in hopes that the public will help located two men wanted in connection with separate domestic violence cases. Cristian Jose Dominguez, 21, choked his estranged wife into unconsciousness …
  June 13, 2013 - FOX 5 San Diego

Quotes

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• George Orwell in Prison Planet.com
  The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness,writes O'Donnell.
• Hubert Humphrey in Grand Forks Herald (subscription)
  Humphrey said this led to animals being "hammered into unconsciousness ...... The hammer knocks off horns, mashes noses, breaks jaws, pounds out eyes."
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor in Spiegel Online
  The head of the Greater Romania Party, Corneliu Vadim Tudor said in a letter to the parliament: "The unconsciousness of this lady who makes easily generalizations, leaving us to understand that all the Romanians are living like delinquents and are...