Awesome! Haha, I'm right there with you with the brain spilling over with ideas that are hard to discuss with most people. I am really excited about getting to express this stuff more lately.
Hypnotic suggestibility: I've never been hypnotized, but apparently my dad is ridiculously easy to hypnotize and was frequently experimented on at college with this, if I remember correctly what he said (plus he has characters! He's writing a novel!). I've never let anyone try to hypnotize me, even though I had a few opportunities to try it in the past, because it was always close to my imagining-self-as-robot phase and I was too worried I'd let that out, or let any of my fictional stuff out, and end up with people thinking I'm totally crazy.
Huh, your last paragraph is interesting, I hadn't thought about the abuse bit. That's definitely understandable. I was thinking of it as more of a spectrum between multiple consciousnesses and one consciousness with multiple characters. But... yeah, non-linear spectrum, lots of factors involved. Interesting. I'm just hoping if we get people like that showing up, we can find some way to interact without freaking each other out. Because heck, if a dragon shows up, I'm not going to believe it's non-fictional, but I'm going to believe it's fictional AND real and want to talk with it anyway. :)
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Re: YES
Date: 2008-12-25 06:17 am (UTC)Hypnotic suggestibility: I've never been hypnotized, but apparently my dad is ridiculously easy to hypnotize and was frequently experimented on at college with this, if I remember correctly what he said (plus he has characters! He's writing a novel!). I've never let anyone try to hypnotize me, even though I had a few opportunities to try it in the past, because it was always close to my imagining-self-as-robot phase and I was too worried I'd let that out, or let any of my fictional stuff out, and end up with people thinking I'm totally crazy.
Huh, your last paragraph is interesting, I hadn't thought about the abuse bit. That's definitely understandable. I was thinking of it as more of a spectrum between multiple consciousnesses and one consciousness with multiple characters. But... yeah, non-linear spectrum, lots of factors involved. Interesting. I'm just hoping if we get people like that showing up, we can find some way to interact without freaking each other out. Because heck, if a dragon shows up, I'm not going to believe it's non-fictional, but I'm going to believe it's fictional AND real and want to talk with it anyway. :)