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I am a newcomer to the area of hypnosis, and wanted to share my experiences
in the hopes of getting a better "experience."

My first contact with a hypnotist was about two years ago, during a show put
on by my dorm.  At that time a purchased a self hypnosis tape that the guy
had made.

When the guy was actually doing the show, he picked a number of people out
of the audience.  I didn't want to go up, but I wanted to try to be hypnotized.
I was sitting up against a pool table on a hard floor, and didn't expect much
to happen, but to my surprize, I felt myself starting to go under.

I felt my eyes starting to roll back in my head, and was very relaxed.  The
guy started to count backwards from 10 to 1, saying tha we were going to 
be in a trance when he got to one.  Well, he got to 8, and I felt my eyes 
all of the sudden go WAY back in my dead (to the point that it hurt).  I 
thought to myself that I was going under too quickly, so I tried slowing
the process down.  That was my mistake--I immediately came out of the trance
that I was in and could not recover.

The next day, I played the tape, and immediately went under again.  (I must
be really suseptible to hypnosis.)  When I came out, I was very relaxed,
my skin had actually gotten cold and clammy, and my eyes HURT (because 
they were trying to look out the back of my head, it seems).  The hurt for
remainder of the day.  

Since then, I kind of ignored the topic of hypnosis, until I saw this new 
group.  Tonight I saw Sunil Gupta's posting of a hypnosis tutorial, and 
grabbed it up.

I also have an Amiga, so I loaded it into my word processor, and had it 
read the post to me.  I was under when the thing was counting backwards
to get more relaxed--way before the post was supposed to brint you under.

My eyes rolled back in my head (and they still hurt!), my skin got cold 
and clammy--the whole 9 yards.

My question is this:  Is there a way to avoid the pain?  I don't really
enjoy the headaches afterwords, but love the relaxation that hypnosis
provides.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Any other tips are, of
course, also welcome and enjouraged.

Thanks,

Kevin
kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu