Posted by Dinah on November 18, 2004, at 17:43:34
In reply to Re: Maybe it's the dolls, posted by Susan47 on November 16, 2004, at 21:22:21
Funny you should say that. There definitely seems to be a trance state involved. I scared myself silly by recognizing that when I quit doing the remembering, it felt the same way as when I move from being emotional me to rational me. I was terrified that there was another ego state involved.
It wasn't until I had left therapy and was driving home that I realized that it was the "how" that was the same, not the "what". Accessing my emotional self involves self hypnotic trance. So does having this sort of memory. It feels the same in both cases when I move a step up out of trance.
But the "what" is different. These are clearly memories. I'm looking at places that aren't here anymore. I'm not seeing what's in the present at all. That's not what another ego state would do.
It's just that I relax most thoroughly and so am able to get in a better self hypnotic state when I'm with my therapist.
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