by pliable » May 30th, 2009, 4:33 pm
That experience is very similar to my first trances. I was using a self help hypnosis file to improve ADD focus. I thought I was just falling asleep when I used it, but I would always have a brief moment when I would awake near the end. It would end, and I would fall back asleep. It wasn’t until I started to see other signs that I realized it was working.
Once I got used to the feeling, it was easier for me to recognize the trance or to experience the trance without that “sleeping experience”. For me the triggers in the files took longer to work. I don’t really think that the trigger works for me if I have a “blackout” type trance. My triggers get stronger as I relisten to the files. I didn’t believe in the triggers at first. I thought they wouldn’t work, and that they didn’t work the first few times I saw them. I thought they were just a fantasy. Then I encountered some of them, and they worked despite the fact that I did not think they would and the fact that they did not work before.