Gareth, it turns out that for once I agree with you. I use self hypnosis for
pain control because I couldn't stand being pilled up all the time. I began to
experience extrordinary micro bursts of streaming thoughts. It has taken me
years to be able to get some control of them and put the energy to good use.
I have used some of Edgar Cayce's methods and books and I've gotten to the
point where I can do it almost at will. Night seems to work better than daytime,
and some of my tapes work MUCH better than others. I've read every Psych
book around and none of them talk directly about whatever it is but many sort
of dance around the effects. Time distortion seems to be more of a side effect
than anything else. I can compress about two hours into about two minutes
without much effort now.

Tom

Although it might be possible to suggest to someone under hypnosis that they have 'experienced' 3 hours in 3 seconds there is no way that hypnosis can make your reaction time, your physical action speed and your reading time 3,600 times faster so the hypothesis of creating a highly advanced IQ (100 is average?) does not work.

The IQ test could be done in real time but experienced by the subject under retrospective hypnosis in accelerated time - even so, the subject will not experience a 3,600% performance speed - only the impression that they did.

To try to hypnotise a subject to peform 3,600 times faster than normal could be highly dangerous, if not fatal - after all, if he has a normal heart rate of 40, it will have to increase to 144,000 times a minute to keep up even with no activity.

Thomas,

I agree with what you have said but what you have experienced is a normal phenomenon associated with mental processes. In our day to day activities we tend to think in words and this slows down our mental processes - if we are in a situation where thinking in words is disadvantageous we can experience phenomenally rapid mental processes.

Very simple example - instant reaction to pain and the physical attempt to get away from the painful contact. (Hand on hot plate - instant withdrawal).

What your self hypnosis is doing is allowing you to cogitate at a 'normal' electronic rate and retroactively formulate the verbal expression of images and conclusions while retaining the experience of high speed cogitation.

I disagree - I believe we are conditioned socially to perform at a much lower level than has physiologically evolved.

If somebody under hypnosis can answer all the questions in an IQ test in a phenomenally shorter time - or perform some other cognitive task - that is solid proof that the cognitive capacity is much higher than we are conditioned to display.

Your apprehension is another example of this conditioning. Like a monkey too scared to climb out of its tree, you are frightened to advance beyond the constraints that society has conditioned into your subconscious - there is no danger.

The danger is in remaining what you are and not exploring and growing.

An even greater danger is that some conspire to prevent others from progressing beyond social norms.

Thats Lilliput.

Also you are aware of the "singularity" - AI evolving beyond human brain capacity ?

Well at what point would we consider a natural increase in intelligence to be a singularity ?

Even the smartest people on earth are only supposed to have an IQ of 260 or so but the time distortion experiments prove anybody could way out perform that with the correct conditioning.

If somebody had an IQ of 500 for example they would seem rather inhumanly clever - possibly godlike.

If somebody was 10x smarter than the average human they would essentially be considered a god.

But computers will soon be many orders of magnitude more intelligent than that.

People will soon be doing anything they can to increase their brain power and IQ. It should start getting really popular around 2020.