If the top is convinced, the bottom level of data will be overruled.
The top being your higher sensory ability, the bottom being the raw input data coming in from your nerves.
When I was a kid I bought a book from the How to do Hypnosis genre, and really liked it. I taught myself self-hypnosis, which is really just meditation, I never tried to hypnotize anyone else. For awhile I did a bit of hypnosis/meditation each night before bed, in fact it got to be the only way for me to get to sleep.
I still do it every once in a while, but not as often as I’d like. I use breathing calming techniques to get to the point that I can use visualization to further relax myself, and once I start to feel relaxed enough I climb down some stairs into my room, which surprisingly hasn’t changed a bit in the five or so years I’ve played with it.
Sometimes I go off into spectacular dreams, sometimes I just sit and think, and being that I most often did it before going to bed lots of times I’d fall asleep before I got into any real sort of hypnosis. But no doubt something goes on up there.
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