#dormez

Philosophical Roots: Dormez! (Hypnosis)

By drmayers & drparr

Hypnosis is a state of hyper awareness which is a state of focused attention, heightened suggestibility, and vivid fantasies. People usually bring themselves to a hypnotic state, the other person just helps the person bring themselves to their own calm state of mind. The purpose of hypnosis is to help people cope with certain mood disorders, bring people into a positive mindset or bring people out of a negative one. Everyone has different feelings and effects while under hypnosis and is not susceptible to hypnosis. One of many theories about hypnosis is that people in a hypnotic state experience a split consciousness in which there are two different streams of mental activity.

Why Abbe assume to say a phrase can cause deep sleep? and What causes you to go into deep sleep aka lucid sleep?

Hypnosis is the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. Its use in therapy, typically to recover repressed memories or to allow modification of behavior by suggestion, has been revived but is still controversial. Hypnosis can also be used as an alternative therapy option.

Sleep Temples

-  A hospital for the spirit body

Animal (Psych)

- body’s natural magnetism

Mesmerized

- hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfixed them.

Lucid sleep

- The process of being aware that one is dreaming

Hypnos

- sleep

Hypnosis

- the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. Its use in therapy, typically to recover repressed memories or to allow modification of behavior by suggestion, has been revived but is still controversial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWMYNTnoEyQ (1:49 to 3:32)

Sigmund Freud, most we known for being the “Father of Psychology,” set the groundwork for most of the section. Freudian Psychology is a type of Psychology that  based on the work of Sigmund Freud. He was originally trained as a neurologist and is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, dreams, infantile sexuality, libido, repression, and transference. All of which continue to influence the field of psychology today. He practiced hypnosis but was unable to effectively get his patients into trance. Freud determined that since sleep is an altered state of consciousness like hypnosis, and dreams occur during sleep, one could gain access to the material of the unconscious mind through dreams.

Questions for You:

Who:

Who believed in the works of lucid sleep and taught it?

When:

When did lucid sleep become an actual practice of therapy?

Where:

Where did lucid sleep originate from besides Abbe?

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