Share your insights and anecdotes on hypnosis. I just want to understand it more deeply. It seems to me like if you get the hyper thinking mind out of the way then you have this whole realm of knowledge and abilities to use-maybe/hopefully. I could never remember the name of this computer parts company but one morning as I was waking up when I was in beta or some low cycle state the name popped into my mind-JDR Microdevices. and to this day years later I remember it easily. Think what you could do with that if you could harness it. It's easy to detune the mind to those lower states but staying awake is the catch. I know there are a gazillion web sites that will sell you a program. Another time I attended a self-hypnosis lecture and the guy just started talking about how you could make someone stick to his chair and as he said it I felt myself sticking. I panicked and had to squirm out of it. Then he said that he would give away one of his books when he drew a name from the audience. He added that often the person who will win will have a premonition of being the winner. I had that but was too shy to raise my hand. I won the book! Later he seemed irritated as he handed me the book not knowing that I had a premonition. Or did he know?