Levels
There are different levels of call-out/response:
1. Conscious/played response The person hears the trigger and chooses to follow it as part of the experience. “Ok, they said the word, I’m going into it.” Here there is explicit cooperation.
2. Light conditioned response The word or stimulus genuinely facilitates a state. Like when someone hears: rain, ASMR, specific music, a therapist’s voice, and automatically slows down.
It’s not “mind control.” It’s learned association.
3. Strong automatic response Here you get that strange sensation of: “I responded before deciding.”
This can occur with: fractionation, repetition, frequent trance, high imaginative absorption, emotional charge, strong interpersonal bond.
The response can feel bodily: eyelid drop, exhalation, relaxation, blank mind, posture change, contextual obedience, reduced critical filtering.
4. Identity/symbolic response This level is the rarest and most interesting.
The trigger does not call an action. It calls a “mode of being.”
Example: a word activates “the hypnotic version,” a voice activates a relational dynamic, a nickname activates a mental character, a tone activates vulnerability, a symbol activates trance.
Here we enter: context-dependent states, self-state theory, functional parts, cognitive masks, personal egregores, psychological ritualization.
And honestly, this happens ALL THE TIME outside hypnosis.
Humans are full of call-outs: a boss’s tone, a hospital notification, the smell of a clinic, putting on scrubs, entering an operating room, hearing a specific song, reading a specific name.
Each one invokes a different mental configuration.
Hypnosis simply makes the mechanism visible and deliberate.
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