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Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!
It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,
Until I realised that it was you who held me under.
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me ... If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them ... There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.
It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
discombobulation
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.
Stapled to her gaze, sucked into the potency of her focus, only the trace of her blood in my mouth reassures me this is not a vision but a hallucinogenic pause from responsibility.
Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.
Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.
Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.
Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.
I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.
Mental seduction. He'd never thought it possible
Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.
There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.
Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right
Its amazing the delusion of being watched and expressing its exquisite beauty both illusions lies in the same jar.
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.
Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.
Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
When something or someone moves you, truly moves you, a part of you wakes affected and afflicted by senses you had never previously experiences. A part of you that you never understood, or perhaps never even knew, suddenly sparks into existence.
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."
I'd like to levitate.
The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
Wherever he went, my eyes followed. Whenever he spoke, all I could hear was his voice. I lingered on every word, every tone - completely and utterly under his spell. It was a frightening realization.
false consciousness:
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.
Entangled between a dream and a coma.
Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.
Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.
The man was like heroin-seductive, addictive and a damned good way to wake up dead.
[...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods.
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
Again and again parents describe ... the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.
I'm quiet for a moment, enchanted by the idea of something stealing over you, settling into you, and telling you, with absolute certainty, who you are and what you're meant to do.
She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful drug capturing the fancy and attachment.
I can hypnotize rabbits.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety.
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.
At night I lay awake, her likeness casting dark shadows across my soul and senses, and my stomach throbbing away. I imagined her arms around me, lulling me into a phantom bliss, so frustrating, so unreal.
Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.
Indescribably delirious!
Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me.
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my actions, movements, and thoughts. I am nothing inside, merely a spectator enslaved and terrified by everything I do.
ambushed by sleep.
Those eyes, seemingly without mystery, are like certain closed cities, such as Lyons and Zurich, and they hypnotize me as do empty theaters, deserted prisons, machinery at rest, deserts, for deserts are closed and do not communicate with the infinite.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
active catatonics. Among
I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that.
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word
Talent is seductive.
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
I am trapped somewhere between consciousness and sleep; a waif-like creature who could easily be carried off by a strong wind, and who would welcome the distraction from her ravaged heart.
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
I possess everyone who sleeps in the motor court, roam their memories, and embed recurrent nightmares that will destroy their sleep for weeks after I've departed them."
"I'd prefer a free continental breakfast.
lethargic meliorist;
What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.
I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself.
Catatonic in the middle of the living room while
Wrapped in the scent of her warm, tempting skin? When a human is ... transformed
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.
Like Beauty locked up in the Beast's castle, I developed my own brand of Stockholm syndrome, identifying with my captor.
How could this be happening? No way, no way, was she attracted to a kidnapper. "Stockholm syndrome," she murmured.
He smiled, those gorgeous lips moving. "Keep telling yourself that.
Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved.
"It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle," ...
Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
Affective reactions resulting from fascination are dangerous; they amount to an invasion by the unconscious.
Sleep calls to me from a land of foreign dignitaries I know not by name as I visit rarely often. The ticket in my hand, only word: "Darkness
Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.