#automatism

[disease]

"EIGENBLUTVERZICHT (BLOOD DONATION)" GÜNTER BRUS | MIXED MEDIA, 1983

[surrealistart]

Orages Magnetiques (1938) Wolfgang Paalen, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 100 cm

[yumedesutrance]

Call-out

The concept of call-out/response in hypnosis is interesting because it sits right on the borderline between “conditioned response,” “automatism,” “role-play,” “light dissociation,” and “ritualized language.”

And it changes a lot depending on context: clinical hypnosis, recreational hypnosis, erotic hypnosis, street hypnosis, stage hypnosis, Tumblr brainrot hypnosis at 3 AM™, etc.

The basic idea would be something like this:

A call-out is a verbal signal, gesture, phrase, tone, or stimulus that “calls up” a specific previously associated response.

And the response is the automatic, semi-automatic, or impulsive execution of that association.

Simple example: “Sleep.”, a snap, “Good girl,” “Deep,” a countdown, an emoji, a song, a specific voice.

The interesting part is NOT the word itself. It’s: context, repetition, expectation, attentional state, emotional charge, and associative learning.

It’s basically: “when X appears → your mind enters Y.”

Very Pavlovian, but with cognitive layers on top.

In deep or highly trained hypnosis, the call-out/response can feel: involuntary, inevitable, “faster than thought,” or even as if the body/response “acts before you do.”

And that is fascinating because it shows something important:

Narrative consciousness arrives late.

Many human responses are: detection, automatic activation, and post-hoc interpretation.

The rational brain then invents continuity afterward.

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[alephskoteinos]

In the ecstatic condition of revelation from the subconscious, the mind elevates the sexual or inherited powers (this has no reference to moral theory or practise) and depresses the intellectual qualities. So a new atavistic responsibility is attained by daring to believe-to possess one's own beliefs-without attempting to rationalize spurious ideas from prejudiced and tainted intellectual sources.

- Austin Osman Spare and Frederick Carter, Automatic Drawing (emphasis in bold is my own)

[lilacalia]

This is probably my favorite intuitive painting I've done so far :3

I tried my hardest to let my subconscious guide my hand, with the main direction from my conscious mind being thoughts of springtime. It turned out super weird in a way that tickles my brain nicely.

Watercolor and watercolor pencil on paper

[aandestam]

untitled 52 continued

[fxhdskjz]

gisèle prassinos

the arthritic grasshopper