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What is a stream of consciousness?

What is a stream of consciousness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.
  2. A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
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It makes one think it was a kind of stream of consciousness, a dream writing.
Byatt's account of the jinx's stream of consciousness during her ritual killing ventures beyond the limits of verisimilitude.
Bleached of punctuation, the words flow freely in a stream of consciousness manner reminiscent of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
I have an occasional experience in which I can see the subliminal at work in my own stream of consciousness.
I swallowed hard as the visions began to fade from my stream of consciousness and I became aware once more of my mother's presence.
Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm.

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