Perhaps it is just me, but I can enter trance and intently listening to a file, but at the very mention of the word “curse”, I am out of trance instantly.
Does anyone else find this happening to them?
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Loci wrote:Sorry for that dumb question but english isn't my first language although I'm used to speaking it regularly. What is that "knee jerk" reaction? I read it several times here.
(I hope that english spoken hypnosis has an effect on me as there is little to no hypnosis available in german)
Meaning
An automatic response to something.
Origin
From the tendency of the knee to jerk involuntarily when hit sharply, properly called the patellar reflex. That was recorded by Sir Michael Foster in his Text-book of physiology, 1877:
"Striking the tendon below the patella gives rise to a sudden extension of the leg, known as the knee-jerk."
The term began to be used figuratively from the early 10th century onwards. O. O. McIntyre, in his New York Day-By-Day column in The Coshocton Tribune, October 1921, wrote this:
"Itinerant preacher stemming Broadway on a soap box. And gets only an occasional knee-jerk."
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