To Clarify:

Nauzy and I found a trick that helps me go really deep really fast: backrubs. We were hanging around the other day, not really having the intention to put me under (but he likes to spring trances on me these days, even if they're little ones :D)... and some way or another I got him to give me a backrub. I started visibly relaxing almost immediately: my shoulders drooped, and I felt all warm and mmmmm-y. When he started the induction (I try to make note of these things but can never remember them ;) I went deep to the almost-blanking-out point within ten minutes. Pretty spectacular; I know we'll be doing this more in the future. Which is great, because I love backrubs.

Note to self

Back rubs.

Natural Disasters!

This is the post where I apologize for disappearing off the face of the blagosphere and announce that I'll be gone for a bit longer. I promised myself I'd never make one of these, but there you are. An immense ice storm hit my area friday, and it looks like I'm without internet and power for another week or so. But Arel, you say, you are posting now! Yes, but from my school, and I don't live on campus. And the other natural disaster has hit me is finals week. I'm up to my ears in work. :(

In any event, finals will be over in less than a week, though I may not have internet at my house for a lot longer than that. I'll make a post as soon as I can.

What we did before the end of break!

Alright, break's over, nose back to the grindstone. Thanksgiving was last thursday; it was very nice, and I got to see Nauzy lots because I had no classes after tuesday. And he expressed much frustration at not getting to put me under enough. :D

I did try to get him to make a post, but he was all, "I don't know what to type!" So I told him, if he ever feels like it, to put up an induction script, because I rarely remember them and I know people want to see them.

In any case, yesterday we made a concerted effort to just do hypnosis, though not after some miscommunication. He put me under a ways, and then started moving me around to take my clothes off, and I sat up and said, "why?" (my subconscious has no trouble at all asserting itself when it needs to. I didn't even think about it before I woke up. :p) Because I thought he was just going to put me under, no bells and whistles. I hadn't said as much explicitly (which, as I am learning, is what "communication" means), so he hadn't realized. He was trying to surprise me, actually.

We worked it out and then had two really good trances out of a few attempts. And I discovered that I am not, in fact, that good of a judge of how deep I am when I'm hypnotized. Both times, if he'd asked me when I was under, I would have said I was very deep but not blank; but after he woke me up I would have said that I was indeed blank, especially compared to how awake I feel when I'm, well, awake. I barely remembered anything.

The best part, in my opinion, was that both times I went that deep inside of twenty minutes! I am almost certain it was the result of having consumed no caffeine that day, which is something I will be keeping in mind.

In short; a good weekend, progress is being made. Nauzy has a number of deepeners under his belt now, and I'm learning how to go under easily.