From netcom.com!csus.edu!decwrl!decwrl!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!CC.UMontreal.CA!cumin.telecom.uqam.ca!phoque!stef Fri Dec 31 07:17:09 1993 Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis Path: netcom.com!csus.edu!decwrl!decwrl!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!CC.UMontreal.CA!cumin.telecom.uqam.ca!phoque!stef From: stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca (Stephane Lussier) Subject: Re: The Trance Insitute Message-ID: <1993Dec23.055113.24015@cumin.telecom.uqam.ca> Sender: news@cumin.telecom.uqam.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: phoque.info.uqam.ca Organization: UQAM X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 05:51:13 GMT Lines: 35 Dennis Wier (drwier@pax2.eunet.ch) wrote: : It turns out that there are four types of trance. These four general : types of trance include the following which are given as examples of : the type: : 1. televison trance, which includes hypnosis. : 2. meditation : 3. addiction : 4. psychosis. ^^^^^^^^^ What exactly is meant here by psychosis? The matter of my asking is that about a year ago I had what was diagnosed as a psychosis (or "psychose" as it was called in french) and I still don't really understand what happened to me. My doctor told me that even psychiatrists don't know what it is and that some of them had psychosis themselves trying to understand what was describe to me in computer terms as "a bug in my brain". So much for scientific explanations... Anyway, not only I was thinking erratically but I was trying to maintain a control over myself. I was convinced I had to regain some unity with myself. It was all very strange and some people where amazed that I kept lucid through the experience and didn't have illusions or anything. I am neither a drug user or a schizophrenic and I don't know anything about hypnosis (I was just passing by this group). But would it be possible that I induced myself this psychosis, by hypnosis so to speak? I guess it would make sense. Sometimes I feel that if I just told myself "this is not happening", everything would have stopped. One other thing, since then I'm more doubtful about my own thoughts and I think I made it an habbit... Stephane Lussier __________________________________________________________ stef@phoque.info.uqam.ca "there is no ennemy to thinking so deadly mortel@chose.cam.org as a false simplicity" -- Bertrand Russell PS: See how sceptic I am getting? I'm even reading Bertrand Russell! :-)