Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rocksvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!dave From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Hypnosis: My experience Message-ID: <20000002@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 16:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: rocksvax.20000002 Posted: Tue Dec 11 16:33:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:42:56 EST References: <249@ssc-vax.UUCP> Lines: 34 Nf-ID: #R:ssc-vax:-24900:rocksvax:20000002:000:1687 Nf-From: rocksvax!dave Dec 11 16:33:00 1984 At RIT I took a psycholgy course entitled "Altered States of Consciousness". As part of the course we studied and performed a number of altered states experiements, non-drug induced. Hypnosis as we were taught is just a name for a normal psychological condition. It turned out that people generally experience this altered state of consciousness, one notable one being TV. There was a kind of a check list you could go through to see if you had experienced one of these altered states, and one of them was time distortion, much as the parent article described. The distortion works both ways, shorted or lengthened. For those interested some other factors of experiences to determine if you had an altered state are: length distortion, an inability to explain to others what you experienced, and some ability to view yourself in the experience. The explaination of the parent article to having the experience feel like nothing is consistant with my experiences. As we were taught your left mind (logical, rules..) runs at a constant level dominating the right mind(feelings, etc). This is normally a good thing because it keeps you from wandering into a car or something. Hypnosis is a technique that can allow your right mind to become dominate over your left or at least more active than normal. That is why you always hear that you could never do something under hypnosis that you wouldn't normally do. Chanting and many eastern religions use a lot of hypnotic techniques as part of their rituals. Sorry this got a bit long, but I expect it would be of general interest to people. Dave arpa: Sewhuk.HENR@Xerox.ARPA uucp: {allegra,rochester,sunybcs}!rocksvax!dave