Years ago I learned just how literal your subconscious can be. I had started experimenting with self-hypnosis and it was being very effective for me. I was young, and it was at a time when being popular was really important so I decided I wanted to direct my subconscious to make me “cool”. That was the word that indicated popularity at that time. I am sure that you can guess what came next. I was cold - I was cold all the time. No matter what I did - I couldn’t warm up. I didn’t know what the problem was - (didn’t remember that my subconscious was dutifully making me cool). When it dawned on me what I had done, it gave me a big laugh. Thankfully it was easily undone. It was a fairly painless lesson-learned.