[kimmydawn]

Do any of you find that certain moving images call pull strong, almost a hypnosis feeling if looked at longer than a few seconds?

I noticed that about myself when small and still notice that today. The feeling associated? AWESOME. It's one of the rare times that I can sense the "going away" and the feelings associated that are really cool. I can so see the attraction to have that as much as possible for a hurt child...

Just wondering...

Thanks!

KD

[nothemama8]

As a very young child I remember looking at my Mama and as wierd as this sounds, it seemed like her head would get real large then go back to the regular size , has this ever happened to anyone else
Yes I too have been pulled by images , my lost times have been explained as going out the window, at those times the alters would take over, is any of this making sense?

[z0ey]

lights do it for me -- not continual lights but blinking lights -- dont know if that is the same or not-- wouldnt really consider it a moving image

can tell i am getting drawn in and difficult to stop looking at the light -- because ummm yeah sucks me in -- and i could stop it if i looked away but i never really want to

but not like when things start going black that is umm yeah not fun ...

z

[kimmydawn]

y'all know what i'm talking about! yayayay!

it's just something i've always noticed and i'm thinking about doing it purposely when i can to "let go and relax". i think it might work.

love,

kd

[z0ey]

ummmm kd?
lol maybe ask T cause ummm
yeah ummm -- it is a huge problem with me --like i am addicted to it

i dont know u might have better ummm -- self control or soemthing -- but really like i can do it just thinking about it --- and just keep doing it like freaking ummm --- heroin or something \

z

[kimmydawn]

thanks for honesty, zoey. i actually wondered if i should...i can see that being a "high" kind of escape (since I don't get high), it might be too good a "for the moment" things...

hmmm, food for thought. tyvm.

kd

Yea. as a kid I could look at something for so long without blinking that the object becomes sharper on detail and a sort of greyish black aura or halo around it and then feel like I am floating. My favorite activity was sitting next to a sit and spin and spinning it because of the bright colors blending into a neat spiral that if I stared at it this would happen, I loved spinning quarters too to do this. Today the objects I stare at don't have to be moving. It could be a crack on a wall or the tv, basically anything will allow me to fade off into that hypnotic state of free floating, far away feeling.

Yes it does work doing it on purpose at least for me.

[kimmydawn]

Yep, if the object isn't moving, there has to be a pattern seen in it...for instance t's carpet.

this is wild!

kd

[SongBirdandDaisy]

kd,
It has actually been a problem for me. My T has to bring me back. When he says certain words or broaches a particular subject that someone doesn't want to hear, I zone out into a happy place. Sometimes I stare off when viewing objects etc. I guess it's some kind of escapism. Maybe it's not the same thing you're talking about. I don't know. I'm a little messed up still.

I never noticed if my therapist carpet has a pattern but she wears clothes, scarfs and jewelry that have very interesting patterns. LOL makes it easy to stay focused on her and the topic instead of the room though I don't think she ever plans a reason behind her choices other then what she feels comfortable in them. In therapy and in the depression group when I do the relaxation exercises its more geared on focusing on her voice then it is an object. But on my own doing the recording I do focus on a moving object - watching my cat breath or the blanket moving when I breath, or the cloud pattern on the wall poster I made.

Yea sure is wild.

[wanttoheal]

yes, I do the same thing. t's carpet is same color but with designs and I fade into that a lot. I don't think it has to be moving though I think it happens faster if it is. Understand the lights too zoey, Christmas lights, when they have that slow glo thing going on, im totally there.

yep.

surrrrrre do

and sometimes my eyes kind of go out of focus and i feel really sort of slow, like moving through molasses kind of. I can do it on command and it happens all the time when im stressed

I love watching fire or a candle. It really is relaxing and almost hypnotising. some of the signatures here do it too. But some are very very triggering that they are almost too "busy" and I think that if I was epileptic I'd have a seizure...
I can make patterns in the carpet or in wall paper dance.

[January]

I can do that! I don't even have to be looking at anything. I can just zone out. Now that I'm older I know it was a protection mechanism as a child. I, too, can find patterns in just about anything. I didn't know anyone else did it!

Jan

[kimmydawn]

Yep, yep.

kd

[Twisted_Soul]

Very interesting to read these posts.
I really thought it was just something I did to help make the pain go away.
I like to get absorbed in any type of pattern. It could be the grain in a wooden desk to cracks in a wall. I can totally disociate and become part of the pattern. I try to make shapes in my head w/ the patterns I am viewing.

[hillbunnyb]

Does staring at rushing river water count? Or the endlessness of incoming waves? Or the raindrops bombarding the skylight above my head during a storm? Clothes in a dryer? Flickering flames in a fireplace with the smell of wood smoke in the air?, oh boy, my fave.

Yup.There is a footbridge right behind my appartment I love watching the water right below me. I watch it long enough and it starts feeling like Im moving. I know its just my getting that floaty far away feeling but I love doing it anyway. So calming. Sometimes I start to remember something but it doesn't come close enough for me to know what that is. Its kind of irritating like seeing a hot fudge sunday just out of reach. The memory probably isnt as enjoyable as a fudge sunday which is probably why its still out of reach but the fact that it out of reach makes me want to stand on that bridge even more, and do this even more there cause I know one of these times whatever memory is there will finally make that connection with standing on that bridge floating.

[grimsbycat]

i remember the first time i did (or realized i did) this. I think i was like 6, and i thought "this is great im sitting here with my family but i dont have to stay here with them i can stare at the laof of wonder bread ( the colored circles) and go away. i remember this moment as clear as can be.

[kimmydawn]

Yes, I think we found our ways to comfort in self-hypnosis, then dissociation.

It's good to know that i'm not alone in this.

thanks so much for sharing everyone!

kd

[woundedhearts]

<font color="#000088"> Yes we do see that with us. It is a really odd, but interesting feeling. One that is hard for us to describe. </font>

[(JD)]

</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
How is dissociation different from hypnosis?

Dissociative experiences are often confused with those of hypnosis. While the two experiences may exist together, they are not the same. For example, hypnotic absorption may be present in someone who is experiencing identity alteration, but it is not equivalent.

To be hypnotically absorbed is to lose track of the background events and be completely absorbed by the foreground (e.g., highway hypnosis, where a person drives by the exit they had taken many times, only to discover they had missed the exit and are further down the road). A person capable of hypnotic absorption may be absorbed in their thoughts while maintaining control of their body (and their driving), but what they are doing is not in their awareness. Thus there is a disconnection between mind (conscious awareness) and body.

This disconnection in hypnotic absorption is an example of a dissociative process, but the absorption itself is not indicative of a dissociative disorder. Rather, absorption is an example of everyday hypnotic experience and is part of the continuum of the dissociation of psychological functions that can be seen during hypnosis.


</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">taken from ISSD website. Just hoping this adds some validity to your findings

[kimmydawn]

wounded hearts...ty for sharing!

sky, as always...ty so much. that's such a good site.

kd

[mlyn]

only thing i'm aware of is this box shape which looks like box in box in box like a tunnel that for some reason came to my mind one day and I drew it out for T and all of a sudden I was in that tunnel and then felt jerked out of the tunnel when T was calling me. It was scary yet it was kind of nice. T said what I drew was used by someone on me. I don't know if that is true or not but deffinately took me away for how ever long.
mlyn