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Chapter 5 The Subconsciousness Surfaces——Hypnosis and Dreams (2)
So far, although we have known that the subconscious mind has a huge influence on us and has unlimited potential, the subconscious mind has still not been developed and utilized.The subconscious includes the most important instincts for human survival, the functions of the autonomic nervous system and the laws of the universe, that is, all the most important survival information obtained by human beings in the past is hidden in the human subconscious.Therefore, as long as we master the method of developing and using this inherent mysterious power, human beings will surpass themselves and step into a higher level of existence.

Studies have shown that geniuses like Einstein and Edison used less than 2% of their subconscious energy in their lives.It can be seen that the potential of the subconscious mind is very huge.However, due to the very limited technology we humans currently possess to develop our brains, we can only get in touch with our subconscious mind through hypnosis.

In fact, dreaming is also one of the ways for people to get in touch with the subconscious mind, but in dreams, we appear to be very passive, as if we are completely controlled by the subconscious mind.Moreover, many people will forget their dreams after waking up.This is the case with Wang Yu. Although she remembers that she always had some horrible dreams, when she was asked to describe the dreams in detail, she couldn't remember anything.This is very detrimental to the solution of her psychological problems.

In the primitive society, people's understanding of dreams stayed at the stage of the dream-soul concept, that is, they linked dreams and souls together.Later, it gradually developed into an interpretation of dreams, which means that dreams have a certain predictive effect.Until later, Freud proposed that dreams are the embodiment of the subconscious mind of the human brain and a reliable way to the subconscious mind.In other words, dreams are repressed subconscious impulses and wishes that come to our minds in another form.

[-]. Is hypnosis equal to dream?
Dom Cobb is a seasoned thief.However, he does not steal people's money, but when people's spirits are most vulnerable, he takes the opportunity to sneak into other people's dreams and steal valuable information and secrets in people's subconscious—you know, people who are in a sleeping state The conscious defense mechanism is the weakest.

Cobb's rare ability makes him the hottest "commodity" and player in the espionage world full of intrigue and betrayal.However, it also sent him fleeing the world and causing him to give up everything he ever loved.Cobb's wife couldn't extricate herself because of being addicted to dreams, and finally chose to commit suicide.

In one mission, Cobb and his companion Arthur were betrayed by another of their companions to Saito, the person they had stolen the dream from before.

Saito finds Cobb and Arthur, hoping that they can serve him, that is, find Fisher, the son of the global monopoly giant, and plant the idea of ​​disbanding the company in Fisher's brain through dreams, thereby eliminating his own competition opponent.If Cobb succeeds, Saito promises her to return him safely to his country.

Since Cobb wanted to go home to see his children very much, he agreed to Saito's request.He made full preparations for this operation. Cobb found "Pretender" Eames, "Pharmacist" Yusif, and "Dreammaker" Ariadne; Schell's private jet broke down to repair it, and Fisher was en route to Los Angeles to implement the plan.It was a watertight plan, and if Cobb could pull it off, it would be the perfect crime.But no matter how well planned and how skilled the team is, there will always be some surprises.

With the help of drugs, the six members of Cobb and his team brought Fisher into their prepared dream. They originally planned to implant the idea of ​​disbanding the company in Fisher's brain, but Fisher Strong resistance from your subconscious defense mechanism.It turned out that Fisher had previously received professional training in preventing surprise attacks in his dreams.Moreover, under the onslaught of Fisher's subconscious defense team, Saito was injured.People who die in dreams will never be able to wake up in real life, and will always be addicted to dreams.Therefore, Cobb decided not to bring Saito into the dream of the dream.

What's more frightening is that an extremely dangerous enemy is following Cobb closely, knowing every move of him, and among them, only Cobb seems to be able to feel the existence of this person, and everything is hidden. It began to develop uncontrollably in the wrong direction.This person is Cobb's dead wife Mel.

During this period, Cobb was obstructed by his beloved wife Mel, but in the end Cobb got rid of the fascination about his beloved wife Mel in his mind and defeated himself.In the end, they succeeded in implanting the idea of ​​disbanding the company into Fisher's brain.However, this also resolved the conflict between Fisher and his father.

However, Saito was lost in the dream.Because Saito is too yearning for the feeling of omnipotence in the dream.In the dream world, the appearance of this world can be created completely according to one's own ideas.However, Cobb still found the lost Saito through his own efforts.

I believe this story must be familiar to everyone, because it is a plot in the famous film and television work "Inception".However, the intriguing plot at the end of the movie is that the top that Cobb used as a token in his dream keeps spinning.Cobb was afraid that he would get lost in the dream, that is, he could not distinguish dream from reality.So I found a spinning top as my dream token.If the top keeps spinning without stopping, it means that Cobb is still in a dream.If the spinning top stops, Cobb is back in real life.

However, if you see the end, the audience will find that the spinning top has begun to wobble, as if it is about to stop.

After the film was broadcast, many people became interested in hypnotism.Because in the film, what Cobb, the dream stealer, does is very similar to that of a hypnotist.Cobb has the ability to enter people's dreams, so when Cobb entered Fisher's dream, he implanted ideas in his brain, and these implanted ideas will affect Fisher's future life, especially the manifestation of on making some big decisions.Sure enough, it didn't take long for Fisher to disband his company.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, exerts some influence on the hypnotized person through the role of suggestion.The effects of these hints not only exist in the state of hypnosis, but also play a role in the awake state of the hypnotized person.From this point of view, Cobb's dream stealer career and the role of a hypnotist have similarities in purpose.

However, it is worth mentioning that the effect of hypnosis and the hypnotist are not as magical and omnipotent as in the movie.In real life, many people think that hypnosis is a sleep under the guidance of a hypnotist, but during sleep, the hypnotized person will have some dreams.

In fact, literally speaking, the word hypnosis and the word sleep both contain the word "sleep".So some people say that hypnosis is a special sleep state.In fact, hypnosis is not sleep, just as hippos are not horses and crocodiles are not fish.

As for the dreams produced in the sleep state, they all come from people's memories.In other words, all the scenes and things that appear in your dreams are just the extraction and reprocessing of real memories.

The biggest difference between hypnosis and sleep is that sleep has self-dominated consciousness (the consciousness mentioned here refers to the subconscious level, not the conscious level).In the sleep state, the role you play in your dreams is usually very free and has a certain degree of uncertainty. Therefore, your self-role-playing shows a lot of randomness.It may be the real self, or it may not be, or it may be the superposition of many characters.All this is determined by your subconscious mind.

In the sleep state, people's subconscious activities and instinctive reactions play a direct leading role and information exchange function.For example, when you are sleeping, you accidentally kick the quilt under the bed, and you will feel cold after a while.At this time, if you are not woken up by freezing, you will dream that you are wearing less clothes, or you are suddenly in a cold area.We generally have such a dream experience, in which we keep looking for the toilet in our dreams, but either we can’t find it, or we find it, but we can’t go to the toilet due to various reasons.If you wake up at this time, you will find that it is because you want to go to the toilet.

In the hypnotic state, the role of the hypnotized person is very single compared with that in the dream, either reproducing the fixed role that once existed in a certain scene, or the role of the observer.For example, under hypnosis, Jennifer played a fixed role in a recurring scene; while the middle-aged woman who assisted the police in solving the case was an observer under hypnosis, and revealed the crime she saw. The scene was described under the guidance of a hypnotist.

Under hypnosis, the dominance of the subconscious mind of the hypnotized person is weakened to a certain extent or handed over to the hypnotist.At the same time, the changes in the surrounding environment do not have as much influence on the hypnotized person as in dreams (but if the change in the surrounding environment is too strong, it will also have a certain impact on the hypnotized person).In other words, the exchange of information between the subconscious mind and the instinctive reaction of the hypnotized person is relatively reduced.

Further Reading: Hypnosis and Sleep
The hypnotized person appears to be sleeping.So, what is the difference between the so-called hypnotic state and the sleep state?

Someone once compared the brain wave frequency of a person under hypnosis with the brain wave frequency of a person in a sleep state.Under hypnosis, people's brain frequency is displayed on the computer as a large number of 8-13 Hz high-frequency alpha waves.

When a person is awake, brain waves usually appear as alpha waves with a relatively high frequency.In the sleep state, brain waves are mostly low-frequency theta waves or delta waves.After entering the hypnotic state, there are more alpha waves similar to the waking state, rather than the frequent appearance of theta or delta waves as in the sleeping state.

Through the above comparison, it is found that in the hypnotic state, people's brain wave frequency is very close to that in the waking state, which shows that hypnosis is a state closer to waking.

On the surface, it seems that the person under hypnosis is in a deep sleep state, but there is a remarkable feature in the hypnotic state, that is, the hypnotized person can communicate with the hypnotist.But not so in hypnosis.People in the sleeping state are basically isolated from all information from the outside world, and the cerebral cortex is completely in a state of inhibition.

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