Well, I can write and read english well enough, but the listening part is harder (even in Spanish noises can affect very much my ability to understand; but in Spanish I can fill up many gaps, of course). It depends a lot on the other person, I mean, his accent, slang and the like. And, maybe I'm wrong, but I kind of feel that I need my conscious part to understand the language. But that can be just something I imagine, and not a real issue.
As for my trance, I know there's a way for me to get there, but haven't been able to get to it. At least I've felt some kind of strong suggestion state, let's say, while totally awake. It was when a couple of guys were talking about some surgery (I think it was from a documentary or tv show), and I began to feel bad, kind of seasick or something like that, cold and out of blood; I had to get my back to the wall for support or I would have fallen to the floor. I couldn't visualize the surgery, not really feel as if I was being on it, but in some way my mind got affected.
Regarding to the sleeping with a new guy, well, to be honest I'm usually too busy to relax
. Besides most of the times (pretty much always) I fall asleep in a moment. I'll try to link the memories, but they are hard to handle for me, don't know if that's related to the non visualizing thing.
And for sure it's fun to be mixing up thing with an hypnotist, that's something I like from hypnosis, but as I don't get much under I have the unpleasent feeling that I'm losing my time. And even worse, I feel that I'm losing the hypnotist's time, cos you know, I lose my time in many ways anyway.
About the user manuals, I never read them (except for the details I can not find by myself)
, but I can see what you mean. Nope, the mp3 files are just one way, like you say. They can extend the induction, or adapt it as it goes on and my mind reacts...
And finally, as you can see, I tend to talk way too much, think too much, review my thoughts too much, and write too much. And I know that's not good as most of the people get more confused instead of getting a better idea of what I try to explain
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Thanks again. It's always nice to read those hypno-crumbs from a good hypnotist