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illusion in the mirror
Okay so stay with me here I know it may seem odd but just listen. Today in my math class my teacher was giving a class lecture and I literally couldn't stay awake I had to fight to stay awake. His monotone put me to sleep. When I got home I told that to my grandma and she suggested I look up techniques to use to stay awake when someone who has a monotone voice is talking. I didn't find anything but there was this video on YouTube about self hypnosis and they used a monotone voice. Being intrigued I clicked on it and started to listen to it and my grandma just watched over me I guess, but I wasn't doing it to hypnotize myself I just wanted to see if I could stay awake but the video was creepy and I ended it 4 mins into it(it was 10mins long) so after I felt dizzy because they had us look at those Spinny spiral things and played this music so I felt so dizzy I had to get up and walk around. Which then led to me remembering a couple of years ago, I was younger and I tried this thing I'm about to tell you twice. The first time I sat on the counter in the bathroom and just stared into my eyes for a period of time but once I started to sway from side to side and my face just pulled into a weird smile I stopped because it freaked me out. The second time was when I wanted to try it one last time but this time with someone watching me. I had my younger sister just watch the process and she witnessed the swaying and the smile that crept onto my face and she literally got so spooked she told me to stop. I've never done it again and I went ever again because it gave me a creepy and not so good feeling. So my question is has anyone else tried it ? Does anyone have any comments or advice to it because its quite interesting honestly and I'm curious to why it happened and etc... oh ! And any suggestions on how to stay awake in his class ???
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Best not to play around with self hypnosis. You never know what you may be opening yourself up to.
Watching the spiral things was one method of attempting to get you to a state of hypnotism.
Hypnotism is a technique of getting past your conscious mind and dealing with your subconscious mind. In meditation people are trained to learn how to stop the 'internal dialogue' the yak yak of all your thoughts going non stop. It takes lots of energy. You have only so much personal energy, with non left for your subconscious mind to have personal break through with something you're working on, in your case--falling asleep during a boring speech.
Everyone has a subconscious mind and with that subconscious mind, I have discovered there pretty much comes a total separate personality, almost like another person inside me. Some call it, our inner child, it handles all the stuff you don't have to think about doing like taking your next breath or blinking your eyes, it also handles your dream state and all feelings and emotions are stored in the best conscious. When I met my 2nd husband he began to ask me how well I knew my subconscious self. I had talked to myself all my life long, asking questions sometimes with the answer popping into my head. I believe it was my sub I was talking to. The problem comes when due to a bad habit, or a terrible or scary experience, our sub feels it needs to protect us or give us what we want. Its like the sub mind loves you so much it wants to give you things your conscious self wants even if its bad for you, or becomes overprotective and not allowing you to move on in life because of fears of the past. I hope this explains a bit. It really is like having two of me inside. Hubby gave a name to his sub identity as He read somewhere was a good step towards building a friendship and understanding between both your minds. When asked what the name of mine was, I got halfway through saying "i DON'T have a clue" when in an indignant tone i heard a name spoken in my mind. So believe me, the subconscious self is very real. You want it to be working together with you on same goals. Unfortunately, many people have their two minds at war with each other and live miserable lives full of disappointments and bad decisions because of it.
WHY I explain this is that I believe that focusing on your eyes or staring at yourself in a mirror was a way to put you into enough of a meditative state for your sub personality to come through and all she did was force you to smile without you giving conscious thought to doing so. I am no expert, it may not be the case, but this is what i Believe from my experiences and what I've read.
I have stared into a mirror too quite often for the purpose of learning how to see your own aura. It takes lots of time and training and a refocusing of your eyes. I never saw myself do a smile I hadn't planned. As for the swaying, I will sway when I am concentrating on doing an energy healing for someone, or just helping boost their energy level, like the Reiki practice although I dont use their symbols anymore. As the energy flows from my hands to the other person, I will often find myself swaying. I think its because i have my eyes closed and I am focused not on my yak yak thoughts but just on sending healing energy and that is enough for me to feel things I wouldn't otherwise.
I don't have any great hints for staying awake. I just know we tend to feel sleepier soon after eating or when we are too warm. So if the class is right after breakfast or lunch, try having a lighter meal? Dress in layers so you can take a layer off so instead of warm, you're just barely comfortable to feeling cool. That might help.
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