Posted by finelinebob on August 18, 2006, at 18:47:07
In reply to Re: Confused and update on hypnotist, posted by Estella on August 18, 2006, at 14:54:23
Well, with your dreams or your imagination, you're more than likely alone for one.
Working with a hypnotherapist, there is somebody there with you.
I'm someone who is very susceptible to hypnosis and a lucid dreamer as well. I only saw the hypnotherapist maybe 4 times and I really don't recall what we "did", but part of the reason for going was for anxiety management and she taught me some self-hypnosis techniques that were really, really effective.
But I wonder how much how much HT would be like bringing someone along for the ride on a lucid dream. I had a funny one the other day -- put me back in my teens living with my family, and my parents decided to buy a full size elementary school building for a house. Don't ask me why, I was laughing too hard to think about it. All I really remember was being assigned one room for my bedroom and deciding I didn't want that room, so I decided to wander around the school and look for a cooler room than the empty one I was assigned.
Ooh! Lots of lovely imagery in there, especially since my dad was an elementary school principal. It would have been interesting to have someone along ask "Why do you think you got stuck with an empty room?" ... I was having too much fun warping the "reality" of the dream to be concerned with what it actually might mean.
I can't say that doing psych therapy with an HT would be anything at all like that. But THAT would be pretty cool....
oh, for ll:
> Lots of research shows that our memory is prone to filling in 'gaps' with plausible stories.el-oh-el!! And I bet most of that was based on online-dating experiences!!
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