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Is it possible for hypnosis to allow you to be in a dream-like state, but very very vivid, but your not asleep, but when you close your eyes you will re-live your whole, lets say, 9th grade year?
But when you wake up it will be only probably an hour or so?
You want to remember an entire year? What good will remembering all the hours that you were asleep do you? Why do you want to be in a "dream-like state" to experience it?
It's an interesting thought, remembering everything that happened during a year in the past, and letting that only take one hour. But my guess is that there are really only a few things you want to remember, not all the time you spent eating, going to the bathroom, brushing your teeth, etc.
What is it, specifically, that you really want to remember?
Most people who have been formally hypnotised experience some kind of time distortion, either longer or shorter than the actually clock time.
You have probably experienced this already when you were lost in a book, a film or a TV programme -suddenly hours have passed when you thought it was minutes.
Your subconscious runs on a different clock to your conscious.
Jack
What i am about to say is kind of stupid, but i'll say it anyway. During beginning of 9th grade year, i hung out with 3 people, 3 of my best friends. It was so much fun together. But, i found new friends and i eventually ignored my old friends and i started hanging out with the wrong crowd, doing drugs, but i stopped cause it was ruining my life. I still talked to my best friends, but we weren't close. Now they all have new friends, and they all are kind of popular and they don't care about me anymore. I wanted to re-live my 9th grade year just to see what i can change. It is out of curiousity, and regret. I wanted to see if i hadn't abandon them and stuck to them then if it was the same results as of today. I doubt it, if i did not abondon them, I would be best friends with them.
That is why.
Simple Guy
03-15-2007, 08:15 PM
Hi Help,
The 9th grade has come and gone. It is sad when we lose the quality
of relationships that we valued. Got to tell you, though, that stuff
changes and we and those we know are, hopefully, in process of
evolution (not devolution). -- For the most part, almost all friends
we have in the 9th grade won't be the ones we'll have years later.
(There are some exceptions in small towns where people tend not
to move away.)
It is possible that the hard learned lessons that you acquired
with the other group are worth the pain of the distance you feel now
from the three best friends. Regardless, you can't go back and account for all
possibilities and play the "what if" game successfully. One reason
is that all the variables can't be known, including what the three friends
were themselves going through and how they would have responded to
things were they to have been different. One thing I learned,
regrettably slowly, was the value in ditching one so-called high
school friend. In my case, it took about 15 years to make a clean
break. Glad I did. Seems you may be a quicker learner than I was,
as it sounds you've gotten away from the "wrong crowd."
By the way, popularity, in and of itself, is no indicator of quality of
the people you might find to be valuable friends. Nice to know that
you can move on and develop new friendships.
Rewriting your own history in the 9th grade is possible, to enable you to take something positive from it, rather than the negative stuff you have now.
But if you do so remember that, as SG says, the experience enabled you to learn something valuable.
Jack
Thank you Simple Guy, and to all of you.