Any  Neural  Network
Can Be Unconsciously Excited By

Other Neural Networks !

OBSERVABLE   RESPONSES
      . . . on the part of the subject are relied upon heavily in most forms of Hypnosis.    Ideodynamic Responses are those Automatic or Conditioned Responses that are generated at an Unconscious level by an individual in response to stimuli that are percieved either externally or internally.

      Unlike the other phenomena we experienced while in Trance, ideodynamic responses occur no matter what one does.   There is literally no way the individual can prevent Unconscious body movements, or keep from re-experiencing feelings and sensations.    The use of the Lie Detector Test is baised primarily on the autonomic nervous system and its responsiveness to questions in the form of subtle changes in heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and the like.   Those too are manifestations of Ideodynamic Responses.

      However, responses to feelings, movements or sensations suggested by the hypnotist, will be enhanced, the greater the degree of dissociation present, since ideodynamics are by definition Unconscious Responses.   Therefore facilitating dissociation is a necessary first step prior to attempting procedures such as automatic writing, of finger signaling.

(SeeThe Unconscious)

      Direct and Indirect Suggestions are very effective in facilitating ideodynamic responses.   The well chosen words of indirect suggestions for ideodynamic responses, are perhaps the most utilized in the language of "The Trance Dance" since they preoccupy the subject with the content of the suggestion and facilitate the ideodynamic response.   For while the subject projects himself into the described situation and attempts to make meaning out of it, his unconscious is already responding.

      The automatic functions that humans are capable of exist on three different levels:   motor, sensory, and affect.   Collectively they are referred to as Ideodynamic Responses; individually they are referred to as Ideomotor, Ideosensory, and Ideoaffective Responses respectively.   In each of the automatic functions described below, are examples which Directly and Indirectly suggest an automatic experience that is not created consciously.   They just happen, as the patient follows the suggestion, and does not have to volitionally will them at all.