Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience

I know. WTF. "Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience". That's a hell of a title isn't it? I'll break it down, but first, I'm going to pose a question:

What do a roller coaster, guided meditation, any given musical composition, a speech, a movie, or a story all have in common? As you might suspect by the unoriginality of my approach that they are all carrier waves of hypnotic experience.

Don't look so surprised. I'm crazy.


Let's start the breakdown. The first word is "identify". A equally descriptive word would be "recognize". This is nothing more than mental version of extending a finger and saying "Yup, that's it." The trick is to point the finger at the right thing and in order to do that, you have to have some idea of what the thing is.

Let's continue with "hypnotic experience." One process of hypnotism is based on changing the state of a person and anything which changes the state of a person is, by virtue of this ability, hypnotic. If someone were to be affected by this hypnotic something and thus have their state changed from their current state to another state, then by virtue of having changed states, the person has had a 'hypnotic experience'.

You know that guy who pisses you off? He's a hypnotic m'fker. He exerts control over you in a similar way a hypnotist exerts control over his patient/victim. (note that in both cases it requires your consent to some degree)

Ah, but there's more. Usually an engineered hypnotic experience doesn't involve just one change of state. It involves a series of state changes usually with the aim of getting the patient/victim into a strong specific state.

Moving on to "carrier wave". A wave is anything which exhibits variation over time. In practical examples the wave will also have a starting point and an ending point. A carrier wave is any wave used to carry information.

To summarize thus far --

A carrier wave of hypnotic experience is something which:

Is a wave that carries information and is capable of shifting the state of the receiver in a structured pattern.

Is a wave which has a starting point and an ending point.

Let's compare this definition to see if the examples listed above. I'll start with the starting and ending point.

A roller coaster, guided meditation, a musical composition, a speech, a movie and a story all have staring and ending point.So, as far as the second part of the definition goes, we're good.

But, are these things also waves? A wave is something which exhibits variation over time.  All of the examples I've given either must exhibit variation over time or be intolerably boring.

Are these examples capable of shifting the state of the receiver? If they didn't, again, they'd be amazingly boring.

Can they do it in a structured sequence? They do so by their nature. Otherwise, they'd be amazingly short.

Finally, do these examples carry information? The only thing I haven't pointed out about the information embedded in a carrier wave is that it is whatever changes the state of the receiver. A dramatic pause is one example of such information.

So, can a dramatic pause be contained within a roller coaster? yes. Guided meditation? yes. A musical composition? Yup. A speech? Yoo betcha. A movie? It's almost cliche now. A story? Ever hear of suspense?

There you go. Consider this final proof of my complete insanity.

Stay Frosty.