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You Are Suggestible Even When Awake

Here’s an uncomfortable truth:

Conscious, critical people are also suggestible.

Yes. And even more so when:

there is desire,

there is admiration,

there is eroticization,

there is social pressure.

This connects to something I’ve been working on for a long time:

Suggestion is not trance.

Suggestion exists all the time. The problem is that we often don’t even agree on what trance is — so everything gets mixed together.

Suggestion alone does not build trance. But it can push you into places where you need trained agency.