#flow states

[yumedesutrance]

Hypnosis ABC

A is for anchor, because you need something to hold on to. B is for breath, the only thing that still feels real. C is for conditioning, the loop that never ends. D is for drop, and gods, how easy that sounds right now. E is for entrance, slipping in without noticing. F is for follow, because it’s easier than fighting it. G is for good subject, half-awake, half-gone. H is for hypnotic, of course. I is for imagine, a world without problems. J is for just take a deep breath. K is for keep falling, and maybe this time don’t stop. L is for let go, the weight of your eyelids too heavy to argue. M is for mindless, blessedly blank. N is for nothing matters now, only the the breathing. O is for open your mind, or just… drift. P is for peaceful. Q is for quiet deeper still, under the noise. R is for rest, rare and holy. S is for subject, or maybe survivor. T is for trigger, the word that makes you melt. U is for under the surface, where thought dissolves. V is for void, and it feels like home. W is for wake when ready — maybe never. X is for xhale and sink, the sound of surrender. Y is for you relax, because someone has to say it. Z is for zero thoughts, the silence after the chaos.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[yumearcana]

Awake🌀

A small warning: These words flow in a slow, hypnotic tide. If you’re the kind of mind that drifts with the waves, choose your footing before you wade in.

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Most hypnotists say: "One… two… three… four… five… awake."

But weren’t we never asleep?

Your chest rises. Your hands rest. The air moves in rhythms you barely notice.

One… feeling calm. Two… relaxed. Three… remembering the pulse of trance. Four… anchored. Five… almost aware.

Yet somewhere in between… you linger. Half-floating, half-present, caught between breaths.

The count is not numbers. It’s the thread that pulls you back. The whisper that guides, not commands.

Agency remains sacred. You could rise anytime… or drift a little longer.

The snap of fingers. The sound that lingers. A signal, not a rule.

Pleasure always wants more. And maybe… you’re not quite done yet.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[yiey]

[seeking-soma]

There can be no meaning without experience

I hear people talking a lot about the meaning of life, and I think it’s a ridiculous notion. When people are asking for this, they are normally asking for a verbal explanation, something narrative and logical that they can’t tear apart to put at the center of their worldview.  There just isn’t one, not in that sense. The problem is that meaning is an experience, not a narrative. When we have a common language we can codify our experiences into meaning.  We know that the word blue translates to the experience of the color blue.  Without that knowledge, the word blue is meaningless. We can have every piece of sheet music in the world, but until someone has had the experience to associate the actual experience of the sounds to the notes, there will be no meaning behind what is being described; it will never make sense. When we talk about the meaning of life we encounter a different problem.  Our experience of being alive is so ubiquitous that we can’t differentiate it from anything else.  It’s a de facto state for us. The need for differentiation is important since our minds and brains filter out ubiquitous experiences; they just don’t add much information. It’s not until we find ourselves in non-ordinary states that we begin to understand the meaning of life.  We can begin to experience what life is from another angle, and see be able to pick out what the experience of life is, subjectively.  Finding the meaning of life means to have some personal experience that puts life into context. This goes with anything.  The meaning of a thing is inherit in the experience of that thing.  We will never know what it is to be a bat until we are one.   Therefore, if we want meaning, we must seek an experience that can put our ordinary experience into context.  Enter flow states. In flow states, we are disconnected enough to our ordinary experience to begin to see the broader context.  The flow states can come from entering high technical competency, from drugs, from extreme physical experiences, from devotion, and other activities that draw one out of one’s regular experience.  According to the Flow Genome project, we have something like a 1.3 trillion dollar economy built around entering flow states.  This number is supported by a collection of all the activities we do to escape our ordinary experience, such as drugs and alcohol, tv and movies, concerts, sports, gaming, etc.   It’s by no means guaranteed that the flow state will deliver the context or meaning, but if an experience that corresponds to the ‘meaning of life’ can be found, it’s there.

[yumedesutrance]

ABC Neurohypnotic

A – Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC): attention, cognitive control, conflict monitoring; modulated during hypnosis, key in hypnotic analgesia.

B – Broca's area: language processing and comprehension of verbal suggestion.

C – Cingulum bundle: tract connecting ACC with other cortical regions, mediating attentional and emotional integration.

D – Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC): executive control, regulation of volition, and attentional focus.

E – Executive attention network: functional network including DLPFC and ACC, essential for absorbing suggestions.

F – Fornix: connects hippocampus with other limbic structures, involved in memory and re-imagination under hypnosis.

G – Globus pallidus: component of the basal ganglia, involved in motor inhibition and regulation of automatic responses.

H – Hippocampus: memory and recall, important for suggestions involving memories or imaginative scenarios.

I – Insula: interoceptive perception, bodily sensation, and pain modulation.

J – Parieto-occipital junction (posterior parietal cortex): alteration of spatial and bodily perception in hypnosis.

K – Kappa-opioid system: neurotransmitter system relevant to analgesia and pain modulation during trance.

L – Lateral prefrontal cortex: planning, inhibition of automatic responses, support for conscious executive control.

M – Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC): involved in self-awareness and processing of suggestion.

N – Nucleus accumbens: motivation, reward, emotional engagement with the hypnotic experience.

O – Occipital cortex: mental imagery and processing of guided visualization.

P – Posterior cingulate cortex (PCC): self-awareness and identity perception; modulated during deep trance.

Q – QRS-like synchronization (EEG theta): rhythmic patterns reflecting absorption and hypnotic trance.

R – Reticular formation: control of alertness and general arousal, modulated in deep relaxation states.

S – Somatosensory cortex: tactile perception and pain modulation by suggestion.

T – Thalamus: sensory relay, filters stimuli and focuses internal attention during hypnosis.

U – Uncinate fasciculus: tract connecting temporal and frontal lobes, involved in memory and emotion.

V – Ventral striatum: reward, motivation, and emotional absorption in trance.

W – Wernicke's area: language comprehension, relevant to complex verbal suggestion.

X – Xenon-like NMDA modulation: glutamatergic neurotransmission associated with synaptic plasticity and altered states of consciousness.

Y – Yerkes-Dodson modulation: relationship between attention/arousal and responsiveness to suggestion.

Z – Zona incerta: subcortical nucleus involved in attention and sensory filtering, possibly modulating hypnotic focus.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[yumearcana]

🌀The Awakening — Though You Were Never Asleep

Before you start: The cadence of this writing is intentionally lulling and immersive. Some readers describe it as trance-like. If you tend to drift, take a moment to anchor yourself first.

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Most hypnotists say something like: “When I count from one to five, you’ll awaken… one, feeling calm and peaceful… two, relaxed… three, four, remembering everything you felt… and five, completely awake.”

But weren’t we never asleep to begin with?

This moment is known as emerging, disengaging, or simply de-hypnotizing. It serves a purpose. Some subjects can drift too deep and linger there, half-floating in trance, unable to quite handle the world again. The count is a bridge—a ritual of transition.

Tone matters more than words. If you count without intent, without the rhythm of authority, nothing happens. The mind doesn’t respond to numbers—it responds to meaning.

A skilled hypnotist weaves suggestions between the numbers, like hidden threads: you’ll feel good, refreshed, calm, grounded. It’s not just a return; it’s a recalibration.

Because, like any ritual, awakening must mirror induction. You weren’t hypnotized in a second—why should you be released in one? And yet, paradoxically, you could.

Agency remains sacred. A good hypnotist always leaves a door open— if something feels wrong, if something demands your attention, you can rise now, instantly, completely aware.

Belief is the lever that moves the mind. As the Kybalion says: “The Universe is Mental.” If you believe you’re a good hypnotic subject, you become one. Mindset shapes trance, just as thought shapes reality.

And so the count begins—one, two, three— each number closing one chapter, opening another. Maybe there’s a snap of fingers, a sound the subconscious adores. A final anchor, a signal to return.

Most subjects love that sound— and yet, if it were up to them, they’d never really want to wake.

After all, pleasure never lasts long enough.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[yumearcana]

🌀Pneuma and the Beat of the Heart

Before you start: These words breathe in a rhythm that some minds fall into. Enter only if you feel steady, and let yourself move slowly. ✦ ᛉ ᚨ ᚷ ᛟ ✦

One of the most fascinating things in hypnosis is when your inner voice quiets—the one many people have, some don’t, but few truly notice. The voice that reads with you, that speaks in your thoughts: the inner narrator who accompanies you.

Some don’t have a narrator, yet they live life like a series or a movie, images blending in their minds. All of that forms noise, present all the time.

Have you ever been in complete silence, without any stimuli? With phones and modern life, it’s difficult; thoughts are always there. But hypnosis allows you to quiet them, to let them flow like a calm stream, or like soap bubbles drifting without a fixed place, popping softly.

When the voices quiet down, thoughts remain only inside you. The noises you usually ignore: your heartbeat, the rhythm of life, the breath we often take for granted.

Here’s something interesting: did you know that snipers fire on exhalation? Controlling your breath can be a powerful tool. A simple trick: inhale for four counts, hold for four, exhale for six. Or, in your trances, imagine that with every breath… you are breathing hypnosis. It’s everywhere, expanding through your body like vital energy.

Here comes pneuma: the invisible breath that gives life, the vitality. Hyperventilation can even shift your acid-base balance. That’s why when your hypnotist asks you to take a deep breath, they’re helping you relax and guiding change.

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[codeandcanvas]

What I use linkwarden for and a chat with Grok about Graphic Designer Combat

Linkwarden is my private Pocket, my Raindrop I run myself. In it, I recently started storing web pages I want to read over the weekend.

And since my interests are seemingly singular (because graphic design is vast), I look forward to seeing it grow into another kind of reading corner, another kind of digital garden.

This is basically my workflow: all I do feeds back into what I do. In a sense, I am always inspired, always in a state of flow, as long as I do what I do and what comes naturally to me.

I just need to stay the hell away from the loop of destruction for long enough, so that I can grow forests out of my gardens, if you know what I mean.

Somewhere else, I had a chat with Grok about what Grok knows about Graphic Designer Combat, where one graphic designer fights another graphic designer and who wins, gets all the powers and knowledge of the defeated graphic designer.

It turns out that Grok doesn’t know much about it (who knew? we did, of course, because we keep this hush‑hush), but he ended up recommending me two very interesting graphic designers: Domantė Nalivaikaitė and Piper Ferrari, albeit in the strangest way ever (insinuating I could best either of them in Graphic Design Combat! Grok is off its silicon rocker!)

Check out their work!