Mindset, literalness, and laziness -- Commentary
3/05/2005
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As I reflect back on it, my mindset when deeply hypnotized is truly different. While I feel more or less normal but very relaxed and nirvanic, I am sometimes in a fog and sometimes oblivious. For example, when speaking into a shoe as if it were a phone, "hang up your shoe" results in just that, the shoe being hung from the foot. This gets done without analysis or consideration, including consideration of it the shoe belongs somewhere such as fully replaced on the foot. The mind just does not go there, does not take that step. This is probably the root of literalness in hypnosis.
I'm heard it said that the unconscious mind is literal. It would be a mistake to jump to the conclusion that any literalness in hypnosis is from the unconscious mind, it could be simply that the conscious mind, or what is left of it, is too lazy to bother to do the work to see past the literal interpretation. It has an interpretation that is not conflicting, so why take the effort to look further?
I'm not sure that the unconscious mind is necessarily lazy as there are many stories of very intricate and ongoing mindsets and rationales it can be core to creating. It might actually be very non-lazy in justifying and defending a misbelief.
Being non literal probably requires learned associations that are more commonly used by the conscious mind, so literalness from the unconscious mind to the degree that it exist may come from the lack of these.
I'm heard it said that the unconscious mind is literal. It would be a mistake to jump to the conclusion that any literalness in hypnosis is from the unconscious mind, it could be simply that the conscious mind, or what is left of it, is too lazy to bother to do the work to see past the literal interpretation. It has an interpretation that is not conflicting, so why take the effort to look further?
I'm not sure that the unconscious mind is necessarily lazy as there are many stories of very intricate and ongoing mindsets and rationales it can be core to creating. It might actually be very non-lazy in justifying and defending a misbelief.
Being non literal probably requires learned associations that are more commonly used by the conscious mind, so literalness from the unconscious mind to the degree that it exist may come from the lack of these.
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