by demigraff » April 14th, 2005, 11:20 am
(Sorry about bad spellng, I'm on a public internet PC in a cafe while I wait for my train, and half the keys are stuck together with something that looks like chocolate)
Hi folks!
I've been trying various files from this site for mor than a year now, with no oticble results that I could say weren't just wishful thinking. Usually I would either start trying to analyse the words, thinking about how its supposed to work rather than paying attention, or I would distract myself with random thoughts.
Then last week, I found unexpected success. I was listening to a file when the phone rang, so I answered it. It was a wrong number, but anyway... I decided to read for a while before trying the file again.
[Aww... my time is up. I'll finish this message on my own PC at home]
Anyway... I left the CD player on, and started reading. I could just about hear the voice from my headphones, but I couldn't be bothered switching it off. I figured that when it got to the end of the file it was currently on, I could listen to the next one and have a random selection. (My cheap CD player always starts with track 1 even when it is on 'random' mode)
I don't quite remember clearly... at some point I started confusing the words. I was reading an article on inheritance in javascript, and hearing EMG telling me to relax. But then I couldn't tell which one was on the page and which one I was listening to. I've always had a problem with multitasking, listening to two people at once or talking when the radio is on gives me a headache. But this time, maybe the confusion stopped me getting distracted. I'm not sure.
But even though I missed the first 3-4 minutes of the TrainSusceptible file, it seems to have affected me very deeply. I tried TrigArousal afterwards, one I'd not listened to before, and even though I didn't pay much attention (I don't remember most of the words in the file), it seemed to work the first time.
Is this just me being weird, or does focusing on two things at once sometimes help when trying to acheive trance?