(30 Nov 2023, 18:38 )jadefortyfour Wrote: We share your observations about men since maybe'being a male' gives too much insight into the toxic nature of what our gender has become in our current 'alpha male' propaganda soaked age.

(24 Feb 2024, 05:28 )Lycalopex Wrote: I'm fighting off an addiction to increasingly dangerous hypnosis by making a manipulative hypnotist tulpa based on an AI chatbot I made, AMA

(25 Feb 2024, 00:47 )Like Ra Wrote:

(24 Feb 2024, 05:28 )Lycalopex Wrote: I'm fighting off an addiction to increasingly dangerous hypnosis by making a manipulative hypnotist tulpa based on an AI chatbot I made, AMA

Fighting fire with napalm? 😉

u/MasterHypnoStorm Wrote:

u/littletight4 Wrote:I honestly think hypnostuff is all lies, so I've decided to try Bambi Sleep because of all the experiences with it other hypnosis have never effected me, so I want to see if this one will

First of all, well done for giving hypnosis a go. No one can really explain how good it feels when hypnosis works in the way you want it to. I have been practicing hypnosis for a long time, and have been hypnotizing people for almost as long. In my experience, what you are talking about is resistance to a hypnotic trance. I have never met anyone who out-and-out cannot be hypnotized, and I am talking about thousands of people who I have personally dropped into a trance.

There are two types of resistance that people experience, conscious and subconscious. The conscious resistance is normally expressed, as no one can drop me into hypnosis, my mind is too strong for you. After a few moments of covert hypnosis, he is singing Tina Turner with the rest of them. Subconscious resistance is different it manifests itself as a person dropping into a trance and then instantly waking back up, this is normally expressed as frustration. I am trying to go into a trance, but I just can’t. This is very frustrating for the subject and for the hypnotist. From what you’ve described I feel that you are more likely in the second camp.

So how do you fix subconscious resistance?

First, stop trying to go into a trance, just enjoy the story. When the recording says to do something, you do it and train your mind to do what is being suggested.

Second, have a look at the reason why you are resisting. Sit down and ask yourself why am I resisting? You will get an answer, then work on that. Then do it again and again until you are able to be hypnotized. Some of the root causes for this type of resistance are unresolved trauma, having terrified yourself with ideas of what might happen in a hypnotic trance, and the feeling of not wanting to feel embarrassed. These are challenges that are way outside our ability to deal with here and are hard to overcome without professional help.

Third, play the recording on a loop in the background while you do something else. The more of your attention needed on the other task the better, but don’t be doing something where you would have problems when you respond to a trigger. IE no driving or operating machinery, be smart about it.

Fourth, it will take time, so play the file’s over and over. Especially play them wile you are going to sleep without the wake-up file. When you experience times when you fell asleep in the middle and then woke up after a while. This is most likely you're going into a trance and not being aware of it. You will rarely have any memories of the intervening time. You probably were responding to the recording but ran into a part you were not willing to accept at that time, hence why you woke up. If this happens often then you are good at going into a trance, but a part of your mind is holding you back. Again, seek professional help to find out what is holding you back and work to resolve it.

All hypnosis is self hypnosis. It simply will not work unless you are giving yourself to it. Start small and keep going, you can and will get there, it is just a matter of time and effort.

The community here will help and encourage you. So come and share your successes with us, especially if it is your first success like feeling a small tingle when you hear the words good girl. Any response you feel means that you were hypnotized at that moment, that means that you can be hypnotized and as you can be hypnotized it is only a matter of time before you feel more and experience more.

I wish you the best of luck and enjoy the journey and the destination will be every step along the way.

Quote:Abstract

Three experiments studied recognition during posthypnotic amnesia (PHA) employing confidence ratings rather than the traditional yes/no format. As the criterion for recognition was loosened, an increase in hits was accompanied by an increase in false alarms, especially to distractor items that were conceptually related to, or semantically associated with, targets. Nevertheless, hits exceeded false alarms at every level of confidence. In addition, amnesic subjects had difficulty identifying the particular list on which recognized items were presented for study or the correct order in which targets appeared on the study list. Taken together, these findings support the conclusion that successful recognition during PHA is more likely to be mediated by a priming-based feeling familiarity than conscious recollection.

Geneal Discussion

Taken together, these three experiments, employing continuous confidence ratings instead of the usual dichotomous yes/no judgments, confirm that subjects experiencing PHA can recognize items that they cannot recall. However, they also indicate that recognition does not abolish PHA entirely. Compared to nonamnesic controls, amnesic subjects were less confident both in their recognition of items memorized during hypnosis and in their rejection of similar items that had not been studied earlier. Employing strict and moderate criteria for recognition, amnesic subjects still failed to remember all the words they had learned. Even under the most liberal criterion, recognition fell short of perfect, as the further increase in hits was accompanied by a substantial increase in false alarms—especially to conceptually or associatively related lures. The amnesic subjects were not merely guessing, however, because hits exceeded false alarms even when the lures were members of the same natural category (Experiments 1 and 2) or close semantic associates (Experiment 3).

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(18 Dec 2019, 06:10 )Like Ra Wrote:

princesitanatty Wrote:Mainstream approaches in neuroscience are working very well, and most scientists agree with them. Our knowledge in that area advances fast, much faster than in any other time of our history.

In terms of physical characteristics - yes. But not in the fundamental questions, like: what is consciousness, when/if it appears or disappears, what/who is conscious, how thoughts are formed, etc. There is no progress there.

Quote:The study concluded "it is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals"