The Hypnogogic state

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on January 28, 2011 at 5:51pm

Hi Daryl,

 

You might check out this HT group for some thoughts and links...and add your own!

SInce learning more about the hypnogogic state, I have taught my clients to utilize it for changework. We usually find a word or symbol that represents the desired suggestions and I will give post hypnotic suggestion for that to come up just as they are drifting off... The results have been great!

 

Kelley

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Permalink Reply by Daryl Wilkinson on January 28, 2011 at 6:32pm

Thanks Kelley, 

I too am a big user of these states with clients, particularly the hypnopompic state. I just wonder why these states are never talked about in relation to hypnosis practice.

regards 

Daryl

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on January 29, 2011 at 5:47am

I think in this case, it is reasonable to look at the correct spelling of the word 'hypnagogic',

which comes from the same 'root' as hypnosis, but not by the same 'route'.   

 

James Braid, the person who first coined the word 'hypnosis' 

on the misundersatanding that it was a form of sleep, 

When he  realised  it had very little to do with sleep,

tried to change the name, it had already caught on.

Hypnagogia is related to the early stages of sleep

The current understanding of hypnosis is that it

has very little in  common with sleep.

Not sure if this answers your actual

question,but might go some way

towards clarifying the issue.

 

Love and hugs,

 

Fable

  Lawrie Shaw the Sunderland Hypnotherapist

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Permalink Reply by Antonio on January 29, 2011 at 1:43pm

I've thought that hypnosis and hypnogogia were related in the past.  Then I started to wonder about waking suggestion and conversational hypnosis.  I think it will take much more research to find out exactly what a hypnotic state consists of.

 

Antonio

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 29, 2011 at 2:42pm

Fable,

'the' current understanding?

Fable Goodman said:

The current understanding of hypnosis is that it

has very little in  common with sleep.

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Permalink Reply by Katherine Zimmerman on January 29, 2011 at 3:01pm

I was taught that we pass through the hypnogogic state as we go to sleep and through the hypnopompic state as we awaken. I believe that Randal Churchill mentions it, possibly in his book Regression Hypnotherapy. (He is quite the scholar and was my original instructor in 1989.) Beyond that, I don't see it mentioned in the literature. I teach my clients how to use the hypnogogic state effectively.

 

Katherine

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Permalink Reply by John Maclean on January 29, 2011 at 4:47pm

I too use the Hypnogogic and Hypnopompic states. I understand it as that time when the conscious and subconscious minds are "handing over" to each other and there is a period of menatl limbo where there is a certain "confusion" between the two states. Personally, I have experienced this and it explains why during the time between falling asleep or waking up I have the strangest "dreams". This is because the different parts of the mind are trying to make sense of the days input and are negotiating. I can deliberatley use this state to focus on problems I wish to solve during sleep ( as an ex-software programmer I have invoked this to solve many complex issues and have, many times, woken up with the problem solved!

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