How Your Unconscious Mind Can Expand Time

In 1956, George A. Miller published his famous paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information”. In essence, this means that our conscious minds can handle between five and nine “chunks” of information simultaneously. So we can hold a 7 digit phone number in our consciousness for a couple of seconds unless we write it down, or commit it to memory. Once it’s committed to memory, it’s in our subconscious mind, and different rules apply for our unconscious mind.

Our conscious mind can handle seven plus or minus two chunks of information simultaneously.

It’s a good thing that our unconscious minds are not limited. Our unconscious mind’s can handle millions of chunks of information simultaneously. If our unconscious mind could only handle nine chunks of information simultaneously, it’d say OK, 1) let’s keep the heart beating 2) Better keep that digestion going 3) Must remember the blood flow. 4) Oh, yeah, let’s process images coming in through the eyes. 5) Yep, some nasty bugs out there, keep on top of the immune system. 6) Better be aware of how the left small toe feels. 7) Must remember to process those sounds, the mother in law might be saying something important. 8) What’s that smell? 9) There’s still a remnant of a taste from lunch time in my mouth 10) Oh, oh breathing, must remember that – oops, what was the first item on the list again.

Our conscious mind can handle a trickle of information; our unconscious minds can handle a massive, surging flood of information.

Our unconscious mind keeps track of everything that is going on in and around our body. Simultaneously. In terms of information flow, our conscious minds can handle the equivalent of a trickle from a tap. In comparison, your unconscious mind can handle the equivalent of the flow over Niagara falls. For example, every time somebody says something to you, your unconscious mind simultaneously fires off all the associations it has with that word, analyses the context, and immediately sends the correct meaning and interpretation to your conscious mind. Imagine trying to do that consciously!

You may have heard of near death experiences, where a person’s whole life flashed in front of them. Perhaps these are hallucinatory. However, it’s an impressive amount of information in a few seconds, regardless of whether it’s real or hallucination. Wilder Penfield was the famous pioneering neurosurgeon who was the first to create maps of the sensory and motor cortices of the brain. He reported in his paper “Memory Mechanisms” that some of his patients (less than 5% of them) re-experienced full vivid memories of their past when certain neurons in the temporal lobe were stimulated, but modern neurosurgeons have not replicated this. The only reliable thing about memory is that it is unreliable.

When a person's entire life flashes in front of them, it's an impressive amount of information in a few seconds, regardless of whether it's real or imaginary.

There are people who do things spontaneously, and live in the moment. This really leads to a rich sensory experience of life, but in extreme cases, it's as if the clock doesn't exist! These are the people who are always late, because they forget about stuff that's been planned as they get so engrossed in what they are doing now. They tend to go with the flow, to wing it.

On the other hand, there are people who always have their diaries with them, and plan every moment of their day. They almost live in the future, as they are constantly planning ahead. It can lead to a less rich experience of the now, as they tend to be almost an observer of themselves, analyzing the actions and consequences rather than experiencing the activity. If you ever take the Myers Briggs personality profile, you will find that there is high correlation of 'Perceivers' being of the personality type who live in the now, and the 'Judgers' being of the personality type who plan everything.

If you are a Judger, you are probably already excellent at managing your schedule, and are reading this simply because you have too many responsibilities to juggle. How much of your time is taken up by planning actions to take? Thinking takes time, doesn't it! If you invest some time in learning self hypnosis, and hence hypnotic time expansion, you can do your planning while in hypnotic trance in a fraction of the time. And guess what! You can learn those skills using the Hypnotic Sleep-In Course!

If you are a Perceiver, you probably prefer to do things your own way, and your time is spent doing what you feel is right at that time. Schedules are more of a rough guide than anything that needs to be followed! Perceivers tend to hate to-do lists and calendar schedulers. Western society tends more towards Judger values, Eastern society towards Perceiver, so many Perceivers have to compromise. Write your list in your own way, perhaps as a mind map rather than a list. When deciding what to do, pick an item based on urgency, and then on what feels right. Use your phone or watch as an alarm clock. It won't forget!

The Hypnotic Sleep-In Course teaches you self hypnosis, and Hypnotic Time Expansion. When you use the Track Six, the alarm clock track, it is a twenty five minute track. In that track, is a ten minute period, where you can expand time as much as you want. So in that ten minutes, you can dream doing that task, and take as much trance time as you want. Then when you actually go to do the task in real time, it will seem like you have already accomplished it. You'll have already dreamed trial and error stuff, so you'll find yourself finishing it in a much shorter amount of clock time.

Einstein said that “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” Time is relative to how fast we are moving. Our internal concept of time is relative to what we are experiencing. If you were to stop for a second, and think of a time you were really excruciatingly bored, and just when you thought it was over, they started something else… Time seemed to go slowly, didn’t it! Yet, the time on the clock went at the same rate, since you probably weren’t travelling at a speed near the speed of light! Now stop, and think of a time when you were having wonderful fun, and notice how time seemed to pass really fast, even though the time on the clock went at normal speed. Time contraction and expansion are functions that your unconscious mind knows how to do already. What if you could make time seem to go more slowly when you are really enjoying what you are doing. (Perhaps you’ve already experienced an intense romantic experience or experiences where time seemed to stand still!). What if you could make time seem to go faster when things are unpleasant.

Clock Time is relative to speed. Perceived Time is relative to what you are experiencing. When bored, time seems to go slowly. While enjoying experience, time seems to go fast.

What this means is that you can do a lot of things in your imagination, in a short amount of clock time, and it can seem as if a long time has passed in your awareness.