The Imagination

While not really qualifying as a mind itself, the imagination is a separate mental resource that does play a significant role in how our mind works, as well as playing a significant role in hypnosis and trance itself.

When we take in information from the outside world, a lot of times the information is sketchy or incomplete.

Rather than creating confusion with this limited information, the imagination fills in the gaps with the closest match of a similar patterns or event that is in memory to help us recognize or identify things.

We use it for things like identifying faces and shapes in clouds.

And; it is why when you sometimes see an object up ahead on the side of the road that looks like a dog that was hit by a car, but when you get close enough you find its only a burlap bag.

So, it acts like an artificial input source, or hologram generator, to help our mind complete the incomplete input.

It seems to do this by generating hallucinations that we interpret with our senses as feelings.

It is significant to note, that it can provide both positive and negative hallucinations.

Meaning: it can enable you to see things that aren’t there, as well as prevent you from seeing things that are there.

The same is true of the other senses.

As an example: Have you ever lost your keys and looked everywhere for them, only to find that they were right there in front of you all the time?

Or; thought you saw something, and then took a closer look and found out it was really something else?

Another aspect of the ability of the imagination to complete things is our creativity.

This is where, during idle times, it seeks out connections between information that we have already learned and tries to fit them together in recognizable patterns.

This process is always running in the background of our mind when it is not required for its normal purpose of completing input.

When the it makes a solid connection that enables understanding, we call it an epiphany.

Understanding the imagination is an important part of being a master of hypnosis, because that is what we affect the most.