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From: [e-mail] (Stan Friesen)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Hypnosis and Repression (was Ritual Abuse Taskforce....)
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Date: 31 Dec 92 22:57:34 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (James F. Tims) writes:
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|> Part of the role which we define as a hypnotized subject we have (to
|> my mind, at least) borrowed from the archetypical religious trance, and
|> to play the role we give cultural/normative evidence of the trance-like
|> state to tell those watching what to expect of us -- i.e., we act
|> hypnotized.  Though I agree that much testimony for hypnosis exists,
|> that evidence seems circular at best:  We are going to hypnotize you --
|> you know what that means, right? -- ok, here we go.  Are you doing it yet?
|> There.  See?  He's hypnotized.

It goes a little beyond that.  I have been hypnotized.  I was most certainly
in a *real* trance state.  Now, objectively I cannot distinguish the resulting
state from the standard alpha-state of pre-sleep, so I would say that it is
probably just a fairly normal alpha-state trance (similar to that produced
by most other methods, from biofeedback to meditation).

The 'memories' I got in the hypnotic state were essentially identical to the
"lucid dreams" that heve been discussed here previously.

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