Examples of everyday Hypnosis
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Just to prove to the skeptical musicians amongst you that we DO experience hypnotic effects every day, here are some examples that you may relate to:
- Having a cut on your finger which only starts to hurt after you have noticed that it is there. This is common if you do a lot of DIY or play the guitar too enthusiastically! You are experiencing anesthesia, which is an outward sign of a medium hypnotic trance.
- Not being able to find something that is in front of your nose! Car keys seem to be a particular problem! This is negative hallucination, a hypnotic trance phenomenon.
- Having your hand full of popcorn freezing halfway to your mouth during an exciting bit of the film. This is catalepsy, another trance sign.
- Having a conversation about gamalan music with someone and realizing that you were not paying the slightest attention to what they were saying. You snap yourself out of trance and say "Sorry, I was miles away...what were you saying?"
- Experiencing one of those gigs where the music seemed to play itself. Perfect performance trance. 'The Zone' some people call it.
- Having a vivid memory flash through your mind upon hearing a particular sound, or smelling a particular smell. I can not hear records by 'The Monkees' without thinking of the train set I had when I was 4 years old!
- Yawning when somebody else does! This is the power of suggestion.
- Buying something on impulse! This is the power of advertising!
- Have you ever been so focussed on a task that an hour feels like ten minutes? Or waited in a queue and felt ten minutes feel like an hour? Time distortion is a hypnotic effect and the CD helps us to condense our practice time.