out of boredom experience

[gurdonark]

When I was in high school, a mystical high school physics teacher in sandals (have you ever noticed that all great mystics teach physics?) at a science summer camp entertained the campers by hypnotizing kids and taking them through past lives. As my own theology allowed for at most one life, possibly two, I did not permit myself the joy of visiting my prior selves. But what visits my compadres experienced! One went to the great library of all knowledge in Atlantis, which was unfortunately closed (which, if you ask me, sounds like his past life and my present one are not that different). Another dual hypnosis yielded one prisoner and one camp guard (what an amazingly mystical coincidence). Hypnotized kids say the darnedest things.

I have been hypnotized a time or two, as part of some self-improvement process I'll detail another time, and discovered, to my disappointment, that I am not nearly as susceptible as I thought. I figured, hey, I love the Wizard of Oz, the Lord of the Rings, and the Dark Side of the Moon, not to mention more sci fi books than you can shake a stick at, so surely I, of all people, will be a good hypnosis subject. But alas, it was not to be. So I guess I'll never visit Atlantis, or find the past life in which I was really cool, or visit the angels pre-death, or anything. But now I must go to the bar association meeting, so I guess that's okay.

Comments

You're getting verrry sleepy ...

[scott-m.livejournal.com]

Someone tried to hypnotize me several years back,
without much success after a half hour or so of
trying (He said he thought I had achieved a "light
trance state"-- I was skeptical). He told me that
people of an analytical turn of mind were harder
to hypnotize.

I don't know-- I think hypnosis is like taking a
nap with your eyes open. I admit to have done
that during boring meetings a time or two.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think so, too. I know what hypnosis is because I have read great novels. I know what truly deep meditation is because I have listened to great music. I know effective ruminative thinking because I have been to the symphony. I know what mindfulness is because I have played chess.

I keep getting the "wrong" reaction in my pastimes, but I get them so fervently that I really don't mind.

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

when i was younger i could not be hypnotized

it was only in my late 30's that someone "successfully" hypnotized me to help me quit smoking (the second time was so much harder than the first!)

it was an unusual experience and i did for the most part know what was going on and i do believe that the "implanting" of thoughts that took place worked

now, that may have come from my meditational practices and from an open mind

i cannot say i've ever been completely unconscious through either of those techniques only due to sedation or an excess of alcohol a time or threee hee hee