Hypnotic Trance - How Deep Can You Go?
Hypnotic Trance - How Deep Can You Go?
Hypnotic Trance - How Deep Can You Go?
Originally, there were only three levels of trance: light, middle and deep. These three levels weren't precise enough so the levels have been redefined to give possibility to accomplish different kinds of work: Therapy, dental work, birth, operations and many other things. In this text, we will see one way to differentiate the different levels.
There are many ways to differentiate the levels of trance, Aron's depth scale has six levels, Standford's has 12, LeCron-Bordaux' has 50 and the most popular, Davis-Husband's, has 30 levels. I work with Aron's depth scale, and this is the one I will describe in this article.
The six levels are divided in two categories. The first three levels are the mnesics levels. That means that the patient will remember what happened. The other three levels are the amnesics levels. That means that after the patient wakes up, if the correct suggestions were given, he won't remember what happened under hypnosis. Generally, to test how deep you can go, the hypnotist lets you relax, go deep, then test the level with different methods. If it works, he will let you go deeper, test the level, and then go on.
The first level is called the hypnoidal level. The patient doesn't feel he is under hypnosis. He will feel awake and he will be able to open his eyes whenever he wants. The patient can hear the noises outside, but doesn't concentrate on them. This first level is all we need to hypnotize in psychotherapy. Most of my patients were at this level when we worked to quit smoking or when we worked on anxieties, etc. It might happen that some patients go deeper all by themselves, mostly because it is a very relaxing state, but the session won't be more or less effective depending on the depth of the level. Even though you keep yourself on the first level the therapy will be as effective as if you were deeper.
The second level could be compared to a light sleep. You are not totally asleep but in between. The critical mind becomes weaker and different big muscle groups can be manipulated. The patient can, for example, raise his hand but will be unable to put it down or to move it unless he is told to.
The third level is when the hypnotist almost totally controls the subject's muscular system. The subject won't be able to stand up from his chair or to walk. He won't be able to pronounce a number or a word, but he won't have forgotten it. There is a partial analgesia: the subject can still feel pain, but it is very, very faint.
These first three levels are more than enough for any hypnotherapist to treat almost anything that can be treated by hypnosis. On the opposite, stage hypnotists won't work with a subject who is not at least at level three, and preferably deeper.
The fourth level is the first amnesic level. At this level, the subject can really forget a name or a number. The subject doesn't feel pain but will feel someone is touching him. Most dental work and small surgical operations can be made with a patient at this level. The patient will feel the air over the wound but won't feel the pain.
The fifth level is the total anesthetic level. The subject neither feels pain nor touch. It is also called the positive hallucination's level. After the deepening to this level, the hypnotist can ask the patient to open his eyes and to see a clock on the wall or a cat on the couch or whatever thing you can think of. The subject will be able to describe the suggested object. It will, most likely, be fuzzy but definitely visible. The fifth level is also called light somnambulism.
The sixth and last level, also called deep somnambulism, is the moment where the subject has negative hallucinations. Where positive hallucination was to see things that weren't there, the negative hallucination is not to see something that is there. The subject can look at his feet and wonder where his shoes are, or will not see and not be able to grab a pen which is on the table.
Hypnotism is a question of training and a person who doesn't go lower than the second level can go deeper with time and training. Different levels are used for different therapies, or stage hypnotism, but if you go to a hypnotherapist, most of them won't need to go lower than the first level to work with you.
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