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TheKlingon -> RE: Sub Space Anomaly (12/3/2009 9:03:45 PM)
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I'm replying to the original post, although after reading the other posts in the thread.
A local Dom gave a presentation on subspace, and made a pretty convincing argument that it is, for all intents and purposes, a form of hypnotic trance. The instructor of a self-hypnosis class I took many years ago claimed that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, and most pros I've talked to about the subject over the years have agreed.
Endorphins probably have nothing to do with it directly, although they might make it easier to get into trance, and probably after the first few times are a trigger to take you under.
Re the argument that some have made that only subs could know about something like this, you should ask a sub to get more info on what it feels like, or what they experience in it. Dom/sub/Master/slave is irrelevant when considering what it is. For that, you need people who have studied it with an eye to explaining it.
I don't make the claim that it is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, a hypnotic trance. That is the best model I'm aware of, however.
Also, some of the effects you speak of are associated with what has been called "right brain" thinking. (The original research indicating that the left and right sides of the brain think very differently and that it is very strongly "geographically" separated has been mostly discredited. But there are different modes of thought, and the ones that were called "right brain thinking" in the early days fit much of what you describe, and a lot of trance phenomena.)
There's all kinds of info out there on hypnosis. For playing with right-brain thinking, I recommend a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". In addition to teaching you how to shift over to right-brain thinking at will, it will teach you how to draw more realistically. Fun book. :)
There are at least two levels of trance I know of - alpha and theta. Alpha (they're both named after the brain waves that are predominant while people are in that state) is the same state you dream in. I've heard (but do not know from personal experience) that you can get better recall of dreams by writing them down as soon as you wake up (assuming you remember anything at all). Trying to do the same thing after subspace might improve your ability to recall. Of course, it's also likely to lessen your enjoyment of it (or the afterglow), so I don't know that that'd really be a good idea... :)
The other state, theta, is very deep trance. I don't know much about it, but one thing common with it is very poor recollection of what happened during it.
I think the largest part of the lost memory is simply that the mind remembers things best in a state similar to the one it learned/experienced them. There are studies where they got a bunch of college kids drunk, taught them some math, and then tested them (both sober and drunk) a few days later. They actually remembered more when drunk.
The more different the state is from your current one, the harder it is to remember much, or much detail. It wouldn't surprise me to find that you remember things that happened months ago in that state when you're back in that state, though.
If you have a good, responsible partner who knows at least the basics about hypnosis, you might play with this some. If you're going into a really deep trance, though, (and it sounds to me like you are), tread with caution - most of the usual checks our minds have to filter information for bullshit are turned off, and you can really get screwed up that way. If in doubt, just keep doing what you're doing, since it seems to work for you.
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