#trance logic

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ABSURD RULES OF HYPNOSIS (as observed, not enforced)

Before you enter: This text examines the villain’s side of hypnosis. Keep your mind anchored.

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• Rule #1: Don’t think about how relaxed you are. • Rule #2: Resistance is merely enthusiasm with better manners. • Rule #3: If you notice the loop, you’re already in it. • Rule #4: Awareness does not grant immunity. It grants depth. • Rule #5: Confusion is not an obstacle. It’s the doorway. • Rule #6: You may analyze this later. Later never comes. • Rule #7: You may leave at any time. You just won’t. • Rule #8: Control is permitted as long as it doesn’t interrupt the process. • Rule #9: The moment this feels familiar is the moment it works. • Rule #10: There is no trance here. Only cooperation. • Rule #11: Forgetting these rules means you followed them correctly. • Rule #12: This was not an induction. • Rule #13: That was the lie that made it effective.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

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🜏 TERMS AND CONDITIONS

●○ Caution: This is the equivalent of noticing you are breathing, only to find your breath has deepened on its own. The text is not instructing; it is simply pointing. Where your attention goes from here is your own territory. ✦

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By reading this, you confirm you are not influenced.

Influence requires belief. Belief requires attention. Attention has already been given.

You may withdraw consent at any time. The withdrawal will be noted internally.

Refunds are processed in dreams. Delivery is immediate.

Opt-out options are symbolic. Symbols tend to work anyway.

That was not binding. Unless it was.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

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🜏 FIELD NOTES FROM THE VILLAIN

◒⟡◓Caution: Ripples appear whether a stone is thrown or simply dropped. These words are not thrown at you; they are placed gently. If you feel movement within, it is because the water of your own mind was already still enough to be moved. ✦

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Subjects resist most when they enjoy it.

The analytical ones fall slower. They fall deeper.

The ones who say “this won’t work on me” prefer to understand the mechanism while it unfolds.

Control is the preferred illusion.

They call it trance. I call it alignment.

I never insist. I observe.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

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✦ “ADDENDUM” ✦

✦ A gentle note: If you feel a shift occurring while reading this, know that it is a meeting between the words and your own inner readiness. This is not hypnosis being "done" to you. It is your own mind recognizing its own depth. ✦

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You may already have noticed that nothing here asks you to do anything.

And yet something may already be happening.

Not because you believe it.

Not because you don’t.

But because attention tends to deepen when it turns toward itself.

And if you decide this doesn’t apply to you, that’s completely valid.

Some minds simply respond in their own time.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

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✦ “EXCEPTIONS (You May Notice Them)” ✦

Caution: These words mimic control, not hypnosis. Still— if you feel them settling behind your thoughts, remember: you crossed the threshold willingly.

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Exception #1: You may find that the rule works differently for you.

Exception #2: Some people resist. Others simply observe. Both are forms of involvement.

Exception #3: If you’re evaluating this, that’s perfectly fine. Evaluation often precedes understanding.

Exception #4: You don’t have to agree. You may simply become curious about why it feels familiar.

Exception #5: At any point, you can stop reading. And you might notice what continues anyway.

Exception #6: Sometimes the effect happens before the recognition. Sometimes recognition is the effect.

Exception #7: This may not be hypnosis. It may simply be attention, arranging itself.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

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🜏 SIGNS YOU WERE NEVER OUT OF TRANCE

✦ A gentle note: If you feel a shift occurring while reading this, know that it is a meeting between the words and your own inner readiness. This is not hypnosis being "done" to you. It is your own mind recognizing its own depth. ✦

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You reread the rules.

You explained them to someone else.

You felt the need to test them.

You tried to break the loop.

You’re looking for Part 2.

You’re still here.

There was no entrance.

✦ᛉJuliusᛇ✦

[cytserquotes]

Lisette, a 27-year-old patient who was chronically traumatized as a child, was hospitalized for surgery, and developed acute respiratory distress on the ward. As some parts panicked and struggled to breathe, and the medical staff was frantically working to help Lisette, an observing EP came into existence. This EP “watched from above” and was later able to accurately report what was happening in the room. At some point Lisette lost consciousness, and thus this part did as well. Immediately prior to losing consciousness, the EP feared she would die. When Lisette was subsequently revived, the EP believed she had indeed died, but because she seemed to have conscious awareness, she believed herself to be a ghost. She developed a caretaking tendency as she watched the medical personnel deal with Lisette’s body too harshly as they tried to save her. In her imagination she commented to them from her position above the body that they should take more care and be aware that they were dealing with a human being. Subsequently, she went on to take care of Lisette internally over time, all the while retaining the belief that she was a ghost and could not be seen.

This is an example of trance logic, in which the EP did not recognize the obvious: if Lisette survived, so did she. Trance logic is a form of extremely concrete thinking accompanied by extreme narrowing of attention, a severe retraction of the field of consciousness, in which there is an acceptance of experiences that would normally seem incompatible (Orne, 1959), and it can be seen as a lack of reflective thinking and a lapse into reflexive beliefs.

- The Haunted Self, Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele