Reality Is Simply An Environment

Supercharging our ability to learn new things. Enhancing the fun things we do. As it turns out, most of these things are easily performed inside a hypnotic reality. If you’re wondering, a hypnotic reality is simply an environment in which you find yourself when you’re in deep hypnosis. It can be anything from a total void, to an entire universe filled with detail. And just like real reality, you can explore, learn, and do stuff there. That’s because the process you’ve learnt has significant amounts of time distortion built into it. The rule is that the more details you notice on all scales, the more time you will perceive. Conveniently, observing as many details as possible also drives you further into hypnosis. Instead, we’re going to cover a handful of processes that I’ve found to be universally useful. Before we move onto how to cause change, it’s important to have a tiny amount of understanding on exactly how the mind works. For our purposes here, all we need to know is that unconscious change doesn’t happen in a way that we’d normally perceive as being logical.

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Instead, the way that changes happen is that we have two or more states, and they mix together. In this context, states can be anything that can exist inside a mind. They could be memories, emotions, thoughts, or even our ongoing stream of experience. Usually a state is comprised of all of the above. For example, happiness is an emotion, but it’s also coupled to all of our happy memories. When we’re happy, we tend to think more thoughts about happy things. Because they’re part of the state, our happy memories become more accessible than our other memories. The same is true of other states like anger, sadness, joy, and so on. How do you get rid of sadness? Most people when faced with that problem will try to logic their way out of it. This doesn’t work, and will usually make the problem worse. Instead, what we have to do to get rid of sadness is fire up some happy memories. Since these happy memories are more difficult to access when we’re sad, it’s often useful to use an anchor to do this.

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An anchor is nothing more than something that reminds us of a certain state. The really nice thing about all of this is that even though we don’t necessarily know how any of this works, our brains implicitly do know. And because our brains implicitly know how this stuff works, a lot of the time, all we have to do to fix problems is get out of the way. At the core of our minds, we solve problems by mixing the problem and solution together, until the problem has gone away. And because of how the system works, we don’t even have to know what the solution might be. When we’re inside a hypnotic reality, these problems and their solutions are represented by unconscious symbols inside the reality. The symbols can be anything at all. They might appear to be related to the problem, or they might appear to be totally unrelated. Examples of symbols that might appear include objects, people, creatures, concepts, actual symbols, and in general terms, anything else that can be described with a noun. If it has a name, it can be a symbol. And just like nouns, symbols can be modified by adjectives. To illustrate this point, close your eyes for a moment, and imagine a fast car.

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Then imagine a slow car. Notice how they feel different. Even if it’s the same car. So a fast car and a slow car could potentially be different symbols inside your mind. Remember, at this level our brains don’t work on logic. It’s enough that there is some loose association between the symbol and whatever we’d like to change, even if we don’t know what that association is. The fact that the association exists is enough for our brains to sort things out for us. We do this before we take ourselves into hypnosis. The act of making this decision creates a framework for the unconscious symbols that our brain will inject into our hypnotic reality. I know it probably seems absurdly simple, and I could write about this for a very long time if I wanted to, but that really is all there is to it. The truth is, for our purposes here we don’t really need anything more than that. Hypnotize yourself and step inside your hypnotic reality. Look around for some symbols and allow them to move about so that they seem right. Practice whatever you’re here for at least three times. If you want, you can notice how your symbols shift and move while you’re practicing. They’re going to do that anyway, but sometimes it’s interesting to watch. Either bring yourself out of hypnosis, or drift off to sleep. If you’re wondering, the drifting off to sleep part is especially easy. All you have to do to fall asleep at that point is keep on exploring your hypnotic reality. That’s probably not quite clear yet, so let’s go over a couple of worked examples. A huge problem that a lot of people experience is social anxiety. Despite what it might seem like when we experience it, social anxiety is remarkably simple to fix. The solution for this is to expose ourselves to enough such situations that we can begin to dissolve the anxiety. But there’s a problem. If we try to do that in real life, we end up overwhelmed, and fire up the social anxiety patterns. We don’t necessarily have any internal resources big enough to deal with the entire problem at once. We can certainly deal with a little bit of it. The key is to move in tiny steps. We’re manipulating symbols inside a highly abstracted hypnotic reality, it feels totally safe to us. And at the same time, that safeness becomes attached to social situations out in real life.