30 Days of Hypnosis

It may not be swine flu, but my friend has been tested with it and there have been 13 to 16 confirmed cases at the University depending on who you ask so it is certainly possible. My symptoms and progression are pretty much the same as hers although I am coughing less. I got it from someone at work though so it could just be a run of the mill flu. It doesn’t matter THAT much which it is really, what matters is that it sort of sideswiped me and my blogging.

It did not, however, sideswipe my self-hypnosis routine and sleep process because I am just that dedicated. Of course in this case the past few days have been punctuated by fever dreams and amounts of mucus not seen since the library scene in Ghostbusters. And if my goal in all this was to sleep, I managed that with wild colors the past few days. Of course, I have been laid low by illness so it is, as ever, difficult to assign my success to the self-hypnosis instead of the potentially life-threatening virus I am saddled with.

Doing the self-hypnosis routines I found that I was having difficulty keeping my eyes open. These were not moments when I was particularly sleepy flu or no.  So heavy eyelids and a sort of floaty mind may be evidence that the hypnosis is finally starting to work in an observable way. I think there may be something to be said about its effect on cats as well as there has never been a time when Thunder hasn’t stopped what he was doing to come over and sit in my lap when I start reading the scripts, but of course that is neither here nor there.

As for sleeping, I did very little the past four days aside from sleeping and playing Batman. Well, in all fairness, I played a bit of Ghostbusters so a friend could see the story, but mostly sleep and Batman. And a little True Blood and Big Brother. Pretty much in all cases, I said I was going to nap for a bit and then 10 to 12 hours later I would wake up terrified because I didn’t know what time it was or how I had slept so long. But I felt pretty rested. Now generally when you are sick you sleep a lot so obviously my massive amounts of sleep can’t be attributed to the hypnosis. That being said, with the symptoms I have such as sore throat, coughing and nasal congestion, getting to sleep and staying that way can be a challenge. In my case, I used the sleep process and across the board found that by 90 I was gone.

Katie reports that when she sleeps using her relaxation script she has strange dreams. Mine have been pretty much just a combination of things I was into or involved in around the time I went to sleep. So I would have one about being Batman fighting Poison Ivy in a Big Brother veto competition or about a former friend who screwed me over writing a movie for Quentin Tarentino but confiding in me that he was fired from his job and working at a phone sales job and was addicted to painkillers. That second one applies only because Inglourious Basterds was awesome and we had some drama this week from a former friend who turned out to be an evil Jabba the Hutt looking so and so who has delusions of importance and and almost impenetrable pseudo-logic in which she is the hero and sending out libelous craigslist ads is a legal obligation or that someone’s fertility has anything at all to do with an argument about business. So really my dreams have not been particularly addled or abnormal, just interesting.

I seem to be on the good side of this flu so I will be interested to see if I am able to maintain the sleeping once I am no longer some kind of modern day plague rat.  We shall see.