@modprobe The old theory is that by hypnotizing someone you are controlling their brainwave patterns, but when I bring someone into somnambulism to do work their brainwave patterns can move through all those states, for example when Mr Smith had the abreaction his brain wave patterns would be the same as someone in extreme distress and under that model he would not be hypnotized, but in the current model we know he was in somnambulism the entire time.
Ahh, very interesting. That was the model I learned when reading books as a kid, but I can easily appreciate that it was a naive oversimplification. As with almost everything in the human body, it's far more complex than we think it is. Expecting an EEG to tell you everything relevant about the state of the brain is like expecting a thermometer to tell you everything relevant about the state of a pool.
@modprobe The old theory is that by hypnotizing someone you are controlling their brainwave patterns, but when I bring someone into somnambulism to do work their brainwave patterns can move through all those states, for example when Mr Smith had the abreaction his brain wave patterns would be the same as someone in extreme distress and under that model he would not be hypnotized, but in the current model we know he was in somnambulism the entire time.
Ahh, very interesting. That was the model I learned when reading books as a kid, but I can easily appreciate that it was a naive oversimplification. As with almost everything in the human body, it's far more complex than we think it is. Expecting an EEG to tell you everything relevant about the state of the brain is like expecting a thermometer to tell you everything relevant about the state of a pool.
@modprobe I like that thermometer analogy :)