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I think a DIHL is the response to an external influence, pheromonal or otherwise. And maybe that response is coincided by the release of the inhibitor of this chemical, which also has some interesting affects. There are dreams where you drift in and out of consciousness, depending on what you think about, which adds further evidence to the theory that the sleep impulse is controlled.

If a switch is being flipped, it must be a fairly general switch. We can slip in and out of daydreams randomly, it\'s just like looking inwards. But a provoked day dream only happense in two situations. The first is of extreem trauma, where the body makes a decision, either it can do it\'s best to save it\'s self, and so acts almost automatically, or the mind gives up (like in a coma) and hopes that someone else will fix the problem or waits for the body to heal its self. In the latter situation, your consciousness is drawn back into a dream-like state, and every whim is catered for, this is a place of extreem comfort. The other time day dreams occur is when you are relaxed and at ease with your surroundings. The mind feels safe enough to think (almost wistfully) about other things, but only because there is no need to be mindfull of what is going on or weary of dangers, no need to be alert. Now the interesting thing is, this chemical is directly related to alertness.

We enter this trance state sometimes because of things we think about, as is mostly the case, but also has been proven to happen with pheromonal or even just regular olfactory input. Maybe what the pheromones are triggering is the same thing that gets triggered when we enter a tranced state due to our own thoughts, which must ultimately be linked to this chemical, or one with a paralell function.


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Here\'s something I found on the net, I find this is a perfect way to explain DIHL to your male friends as there\'s a good chance they\'ve been there at least once in their life:
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You can take a guy who\'s an air traffic controller, who has incredible focus, who can deal with incredible stress, and put him in front of a Penthouse pet in a thong bikini, all oiled up, and he won\'t be able to put two words together. That\'s an altered state of consciousness.

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Now my take as to what triggers a DIHL is sensory overload, think along the lines of how trauma puts people into a trance like state, your sensors are taking in more information then it can handle &amp; another part of your mind, the subconscious part begins to take control. In the example of the air traffic controller, he has never seen someone this beautiful this lubed up &amp; is trying to take in every inch of her body visually all at the same time &amp; he cannot &amp; he just is mesmerized by what he is seeing.

With pheromones, you typically only get DIHL like responses on OD-ing on something like -none. Because it elicits such a strong sexual response, they had never been exposed to taking that much information in through their VNO &amp; their brain \"tilts\" when it tries to process it, so the subconscious mind takes over.

One last example, not sure if I can tie it in here, but let\'s say you are hanging out with your buddies &amp; you do the Elaine Beness dance from Seinfeld, &amp; let\'s assume they never saw that episode &amp; they are freaked out by it, trying to decipher &amp; process all of the visual imagery but they fail to piece it together &amp; are just like, \"huh?\" Okay that last one was a stretch but, do you see where I\'m going with this? Just trying to further analyze &amp; breakdown DIHL\'s &amp; how to act when your target goes into one.

I guess it really comes down to how do you communicate with someone\'s subconscious when you do not have to worry about their conscious mind to interfer? Do you just pretend your target has fallen into hypnosis &amp; start creating anchors, &amp; then when they come out of the trance they will react to the different anchors you set.

Final slightly off topic note, anyone ever listen to Howard Stern\'s crucified by the FCC? There\'s a clip I want to get my hands on. Some famous hypnotist used to go on the show &amp; hypnotize porn stars or just really hot female celebrities to be Howard\'s little toy during the show. One time he had this hot girl have an orgasm everytime Howard touched his ear, it was classic Stern at his best. It got to the point where they started to tease her about his penis &amp; asked her if she wanted to see it, &amp; she nearly exploded in begging Howard to reveal himself, I\'m pretty sure he did &amp; she felt a strong hap-piness inside herself (pun intended for you NLP-er\'s).