found this rabbit hole while researching stuff from the 1700s.
TLDR this guy named Mesmer did some weird stuff with magnets trying to treat rich peoples illnesses. accidently found a way to induce a state called of mind "Somnobalisum" (a state similar to sleepwalking)
the word mesmerism comes from this guy. Anyway he was shut down a group of scientists (including Benjamin franklin) and the French revolution happened.
Fast forward to the 1800s and mad doctors found a way to induce somnobalisum without magnets. They called it hypnosis.
First step is to induce a tranced state. (shutting off the conscious mind bringing forth the subconscious, akin to a deep meditative state)
Then the second step is to induce somnobalisum by hypnotising the subconscious mind like you did with the conscious mind.
Think inception but instead of dreams its level of consciousness.
the person is now in a state of somnobalisum. they will have no memory of the event and can be influenced to do an number of different things.
over the years they did a number of experiments on people and got some interesting results
Somethings you'd expect - they could make them fall into a deep sleep, in a therapeutic setting they could influence a persons habits or help them access regressed memories.
some stuff you might not expect would be that this can be used instead of anesthesiology. meaning a real hypnotist can put you in such a deep state that you can be operated on...raw. im talking limb removal with no pain. its called Hypnotic analgesia. people have been getting this done for over 150 years.
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=86437 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7355569.stm https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/hypnotist-puts-himself-trance-surgeon-2232873
that's not all, weirdly enough a person in a state of somnoblasim will often perform a familiar physical tasks or actions with much more ease and accuracy compared to a normal state of mind.
and they score significantly higher on "psychic tests". Actually all psychic research seems to be just a branch of hypnotism. Project stargate anyone?
thoughts?
Oh, acid and mushrooms definitely heighten visual acuity, and sometimes marijuana does as well.
I was going to bring it up in my last comment, but a great example is Rocket League. I play with my brother a fair amount (we play the basketball mode), split screen, and I always like to have an eye on his side of the screen just for his general whereabouts and also to see the layout of the field. I mainly try to catch glances obviously when I have a quick window, but if I'm "in the proper state", I will regularly catch myself making spectacular plays while barely looking at the screen at all. Or if I was, my eyes were not looking at what I was doing too directly.
It's almost like "Through A Scanner Darkly", where you get to a state where you feel like you are observing yourself doing an action rather than consciously doing the action.
I think another example is similar to what they do in MKUltra...they get the people to focus on how their "alters" would do something as opposed to how they themselves would do it, and it removes a level of immediacy from everything they do.
I've found that it works in simple visualization. Like one time, playing real basketball against my brother, I told him I was going to beat him like Kobe would. Ended up making like 21 buckets in a row. I don't even like Kobe LOL. But I know his moves and skill set.
Shoot, by far the longest basketball shot I've ever made I only had one chance at...it was probably a solid 175 footer too. As me and my friends left a court one day (back in my grad school days), I got a sudden urge to take a shot when we leaving, and even announced to my friends that I was going to nail it. Didn't even touch the rim either. Had to hustle WAY back because the court was in a park and the ball rolled down a rather steep hill behind the court.
I just want to be perfectly clear too...I am a small dude and can barely throw the ball full court on a good day. The distance and angle on that shot was ridiculous.
Everything comes down to knowledge, visualization, and relaxation. That's the major thing...the MKUltra folks have a level of relaxation that "normies" don't have. Reminds me of Britney and one of her more recent videos, where she is dancing and clashing what look to be VERY sharp knives together...not something that a nervous person would do.