INDEX:
1. your mind
2. affecting your mind
RELATED WORDS
I don’t mind : ↑ DON'T CARE
see also
↑ THINK
↑ MENTALLY ILL
↑ INTELLIGENT
↑ OPINION
↑ MENTALLY ILL
↑ IMAGINE
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1. your mind
▷ mind /maɪnd/ [countable noun]
what you use to think and imagine things :
▪ His mind was full of big ideas for developing the company.
▪ Dave struggled hard to push these worries out of his mind. try not to think about them
in your mind
▪ She had a picture of him in her mind - tall, blond and handsome.
at the back of your mind
when an idea is not very clear or certain
▪ At the back of my mind I had the funny feeling that I’d met her somewhere before.
go/run through your mind
▪ The same thoughts kept going through my mind and I couldn’t get to sleep.
turn something over in your mind
think about something carefully
▪ It was an interesting idea. Jeff turned it over in his mind on the way to work.
what’s going on in somebody’s mind
what somebody is thinking
▪ I never know what’s going on in her mind.
your mind wanders
you cannot make yourself concentrate on a particular subject , and you start thinking about other things
▪ The teacher talked on and on and my mind began to wander.
▷ brain /breɪn/ [countable noun]
your ability to think and the way that you think :
▪ My brain worked fast as I tried to decide what to do.
▪ Branson has an excellent business brain.
▷ head /hed/ [countable noun]
someone’s mind - use this especially when talking about the thoughts that are in someone’s mind :
▪ Dan’s head was full of big ideas.
what’s going on in somebody’s head
what somebody is thinking
▪ She’s so quiet - you never quite know what’s going on inside her head.
▷ subconscious /sʌbˈkɒnʃəsǁ-ˈkɑːn-/ [singular noun]
the part of your mind that influences the way you think or behave, even though you may not realize this is happening, and which makes you have dreams :
the subconscious
▪ When you go to sleep it is only the conscious mind that shuts down. The subconscious cannot do so.
somebody’s subconscious
▪ Our subconscious plays tricks with us sometimes and we may imagine that we are seeing things such as ghosts.
subconscious [adjective]
▪ the subconscious mind
▪ our subconscious desires
▷ psyche /ˈsaɪki/ [singular noun] formal
someone’s mind, especially their feelings and attitudes, and the way these influence their character :
▪ The need for love is deeply buried in our psyche.
▪ the fragile psyche of a teenager
the human/female/American etc psyche
the typical psyche of a human, female etc
▪ Freud has provided an account of the human psyche’s different stages of development.
2. affecting your mind
▷ mental /ˈmentl/ [adjective usually before noun]
affecting your mind or happening in your mind :
▪ After months of overworking, Briggs was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion.
▪ It takes a lot of mental effort to understand these ideas.
mental picture/image
a picture that you have in your mind
▪ I’d never met Jane’s boyfriend, but I had a clear mental picture of what he looked like.
mental illness/problem/breakdown
an illness, problem etc of your mind, not your body
▪ Rick had a complete mental breakdown after his family died in a car crash.
mentally [adverb]
▪ By the end of the day we were mentally and physically worn out.
▷ psychological /ˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪk ə l◂ǁ-ˈlɑː-/ [adjective]
affecting the mind - use this especially about mental problems that influence the way someone behaves :
▪ The cause of a physical illness can often be psychological.
a psychological problem
▪ She works with children who have psychological problems.
psychologically [adverb]
▪ psychologically disturbed children
▷ subconscious also unconscious /sʌbˈkɒnʃəsǁ-ˈkɑːn-, ʌnˈkɒnʃəsǁ-ˈkɑːn-/ [adjective]
subconscious feelings, desires, worries etc are hidden in your mind and you do not realize that you have them :
▪ People who come to me for counselling are very often suffering from unconscious feelings of guilt.
▪ a subconscious fear of failure
subconsciously [adverb]
▪ Fathers are often subconsciously jealous of their sons.
▷ subliminal /sʌbˈlɪmɪn ə l, sʌbˈlɪmən ə l/ [adjective]
subliminal messages and images are hidden in advertisements, pictures etc and can influence your mind without you realizing it :
▪ Any kind of subliminal advertising is illegal on British TV.
▪ Young people are receiving constant subliminal messages glorifying pop stars, their cars, their girlfriends.