Comments on: Joe Griffin Responds To My Questions on the Expectation Fulfilment Theory of Dreaming http://dreaminglife.org/2007/07/24/joe-griffin-responds-to-my-questions-on-the-expectation-fulfilment-theory-of-dreaming/ a blog exploring lucid dreaming, entheogens, metaphysics, & the conscious experience Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: The Mad Hatter http://dreaminglife.org/2007/07/24/joe-griffin-responds-to-my-questions-on-the-expectation-fulfilment-theory-of-dreaming/#comment-3387 The Mad Hatter Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:36:31 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/07/24/joe-griffin-responds-to-my-questions-on-the-expectation-fulfilment-theory-of-dreaming/#comment-3387 I've been under hypnosis, and unless you've been guided into a hypnagogic state, then my experiences can not be replicated. Unless there is some form of super hypnosis, I'll never be able to do everything I can in dreams. This is based on my experience. I would agree that hypnosis and things done in dreams (suggestions and programming of the mind) have around the same effects, but I would argue that dreaming has an even more powerful effect then hypnosis. I would say that dreaming is a more powerful altered state of consciousness then may be achieved through hypnosis. Then again, there may be levels of hypnosis I've never been under, so I'm not barring that hypnosis may be more powerful, just that from my observations dreaming is more powerful. -Hatter I’ve been under hypnosis, and unless you’ve been guided into a hypnagogic state, then my experiences can not be replicated. Unless there is some form of super hypnosis, I’ll never be able to do everything I can in dreams. This is based on my experience.

I would agree that hypnosis and things done in dreams (suggestions and programming of the mind) have around the same effects, but I would argue that dreaming has an even more powerful effect then hypnosis. I would say that dreaming is a more powerful altered state of consciousness then may be achieved through hypnosis. Then again, there may be levels of hypnosis I’ve never been under, so I’m not barring that hypnosis may be more powerful, just that from my observations dreaming is more powerful.

-Hatter

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