Long practice enables experienced performers to encode a skill in implicit memory, and they are able to perform automatically, smoothly, almost subconsciously.

Implicit memory registers and responds to negative events almost immediately.

Terms related to semi-consciousness include: awakening, implicit memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogia, and hypnosis.

Implicit memory includes procedural memory, which influences our everyday behaviours, such as riding a bike or tying shoes.

Even though he forgot about the lists, he was still able to learn things through his implicit memory.