I read a book and decided to try a kind of self-hypnosis.
The reticular activating system (RAS) is a little part of the brain that you use to tell the difference between truth and falsehood of what is inputted into your brain.
The goal of this particular technique is to deactivate it, without deactivating the rest. Once that happens, you absolutely believe anything you hear or tell yourself no matter how outlandish it is. (Naturally, you don't want to do it with other people around)
This doesn't happen all at once, and the more practice you have at it, the more the RAS will be 'asleep' and you'll be able to pass more unbelievable things over time.
This would be useless if it were not that what you absolutely believe can have surprising effects.
Things I have done with this:
-Gone to sleep on command
-Made myself unable to open my eyelids for 10 seconds (kinda scary, actually)
-Cure a cold within 2 days
The way I do it is to:
-Think of what I'm going to input into my mind (should include thinking: every time I do this, it will be easier than last time)
-Lie down
-Tense up a muscle while inhaling and thinking "tension comes up"
-relax that muscle wile thinking "tension goes away" or "I'm entering self-hypnosis" and imagining the tension flowing down out of my chest into the bed, like water.
-I repeat that for all the muscles under voluntary control; I end with the eye muscles, looking up, down, left, right, then cross-eyed.
-I then know I've been successful because I get a peculiar feeling. Floating in a black, lukewarm fog would be the best description, and I'm very unaware of everything around me and even myself.
-I then think to myself the things I decided to input until the odd feeling starts to weaken, then I command myself to snap out of it.
You won't be able to do much with it without practice, but once you have practice, you can do some weird stuff. The eyelid experiment was what convinced me: Try as hard as I might, I could not open my eyes until the designated time!
So, what do you think? Are you wanting to try it? Do you have something similar you know about?
The reticular activating system (RAS) is a little part of the brain that you use to tell the difference between truth and falsehood of what is inputted into your brain.
The goal of this particular technique is to deactivate it, without deactivating the rest. Once that happens, you absolutely believe anything you hear or tell yourself no matter how outlandish it is. (Naturally, you don't want to do it with other people around)
This doesn't happen all at once, and the more practice you have at it, the more the RAS will be 'asleep' and you'll be able to pass more unbelievable things over time.
This would be useless if it were not that what you absolutely believe can have surprising effects.
Things I have done with this:
-Gone to sleep on command
-Made myself unable to open my eyelids for 10 seconds (kinda scary, actually)
-Cure a cold within 2 days
The way I do it is to:
-Think of what I'm going to input into my mind (should include thinking: every time I do this, it will be easier than last time)
-Lie down
-Tense up a muscle while inhaling and thinking "tension comes up"
-relax that muscle wile thinking "tension goes away" or "I'm entering self-hypnosis" and imagining the tension flowing down out of my chest into the bed, like water.
-I repeat that for all the muscles under voluntary control; I end with the eye muscles, looking up, down, left, right, then cross-eyed.
-I then know I've been successful because I get a peculiar feeling. Floating in a black, lukewarm fog would be the best description, and I'm very unaware of everything around me and even myself.
-I then think to myself the things I decided to input until the odd feeling starts to weaken, then I command myself to snap out of it.
You won't be able to do much with it without practice, but once you have practice, you can do some weird stuff. The eyelid experiment was what convinced me: Try as hard as I might, I could not open my eyes until the designated time!
So, what do you think? Are you wanting to try it? Do you have something similar you know about?
