It’s Amazing How Strongly We Get Hypnotized By Light

Your behaviors and physiology

We experience it every day, and we take it for granted. We don’t think about it, but it is noticeable; it’s integrated into our society. It determines our habits and the decisions we make. Most of the time, we don’t stand still by the idea that external forces direct us.

“The stimulus of light” is most important to set your day. It is either the natural stimulus of the sun’s blue light we are exposed to or the artificial light stimulus we created to obstruct or influence certain patterns in our lives.

Let’s skip the invention of the lightbulb part; way before, we were also making a fire which could interrupt our night pattern and the light emitted from the moon. Living outside and when we were still hammering with a wooden stick, we were already largely influenced by the light. Although we could argue about the fire since it only emits a few candelas, it will largely depend on how long and when we were exposed to it. The Light of the moon has proven until today that it has its effects on humans and animals.

For instance: Lions tend to hunt at night unless after the full moon, then they rather hunt during the day instead… or bats appear during the morning times after the full moon.

Certain humans tend to have a more difficult time catching sleep when it’s a full moon.

Hypnosis

A human condition involving focused attention reduces peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestions.

“Greatly pushed back through our society, hypnosis is still seen as witchery, and many people to who you’ll talk about hypnosis will say: “It’s set up, you’re a clown, walk away and laugh.”

Hypnosis is the transfer state in which we find ourselves in between our awake state just before falling asleep. The words hypnosis and hypnotism derive from the term neuro-hypnotism or nervous sleep.

“Etienne Félix d’Henin de Culivers the french magnetizer and early practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline anno 1820s.”

Etienne was best known for coining the term: hypnosis is, derived from the ancient Greece Hypnos or better said “sleep” or even hypnoō, “put to sleep.”

The Scottish surgeon James Braid made the words described above famous somewhere around 1841.

But his practice was based on “Mesmerism” or “animal magnetism,” which Franz Mesmer’s ideas and theory and some of his followers practiced. It differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.

One could argue if James Braid was the ground setter or ground setter or who they are sometimes wrongly attributed around 1841–1842.

“Hypnosis was developed in 1842.” As we know, innovation and invention of new things largely depend on different pioneers working upon each other’s ideas, and in these cases, it is no different!

The fundamental work of Etienne Félix d’Henin de Culivers and the development of theory and ideas which Franz Mesmer and his followers had been working on led lead to the final work of James Braid in 1842.

Until 2021 you could get subsidized In countries like Belgium if you had a degree in hypnosis treatment, and put it into practice. This might seem foolish if you don’t know anything about it and still think hypnosis is witchery. I have the impression that the subsidized cut will be undone. Why? because Belgium is searching to place the Idea of hypnosis in the correct basket. This being said, Belgium is one of the world’s best places to be when you have psychical or medical issues, and I can strongly back this up by experience. A county like this working on the support of hypnosis should be taken more seriously! Recently I noticed that effort is being made to let patients choose between hypnosis and anesthesia.

“In a natural state, we would live outside as we did ages ago, we would reach the state of hypnosis when light frequency starts to change towards sunset.. from blue to red or opposite.”

Your blue light sensor

Melanopsin,

The blue light sensor, located at the backside of your eyeball, translates the frequencies further until they become actual behaviors.

The light exposure

The greater light exposure during the day results in a cascade of hormonal impacts that can influence our emotional state.

It is also known that there are more suicide cases in countries worldwide during longer winter times, being exposed to darkness more than light.

At this moment, we can conclude that it is important not only your sleep per se but our sleep timing. Because of the period and the length of time exposed to light play an equal role. By means of certain Stanford studies, Dr. Andrew Huberman told us that there is a big chance that our memory would be better maintaining a steady sleep schedule instead of variable hours of sleep. Because of artificial light, we often get interrupted patterns which could cause bad memory.

We tend to observe slight differences in terms of colors because that’s what our visual system registers. What actually differs are the frequencies.

Frequencies or pulses are signal senders.

In our brain, these frequencies are being filtered by means of the melanopsin or blue light sensor on the back of our eyeball. Further, it passes the SCN or master clock, which synchronizes all other clocks of our organs.

Our environment experiences the same basics but gets exposed differently or within a different timeframe. We mean the people, animals, and plants surrounding us in the shortest range by the environment.

While this is happening, that same environment is exposed at different rates on its terms effects and influences our behavior. Choose the environment you are exposed to most very carefully and try to use it toin most very carefully and try to use it to your advantage as required.

The daily environment in which you surround yourself has a big impact on your life as a whole

Now that being said, in the end, it is the light that is the master influencer of this all.

Pay more attention to light and the consistent pattern in how you and your family get exposed. We need light to live well, but timing when and how much of which light source regulates your behavior.

The more light, the better.

It is also proven not to be that great when exposed to light too much! Sunburning? Heatstrokes? I mean, too much isn’t good either, same as with nutrition, training, or learning; everything that contains too much isn’t good.

The more balanced your light cycles throughout the year are, the more likely your endocrine system will also find its balance, and if the balance in your entire environment is a bit equal, the more benefit you’ll find there as well.

More influenced by food and taste, you think?

How does our sense of taste work?

How well we taste largely depends on “homeostasis” or the “physiological rest state” we are in.

Connecting taste with emotion, our evolution: Taste was a sense that aided us in testing the food we were consuming. It was, therefore, a matter of survival.

A bitter or sour taste indicated poisonous inedible plants or rotting protein-rich food. On the other hand, the tastes of sweet and salty are often a sign of food rich in nutrients.

A bitter pill, sour grapes, or sweet nothings. Descriptions of taste are very often associated with strong emotions. They express in words states of intense pleasure as well as displeasure.

Most of the food from before was plants, and they underwent photosynthesis; yeah, but we also ate animals, you would say, right?

Well, yes, but again in their turn, those animals also ate plants. In the end, all food from the bottom of the pyramid underwent photosynthesis.

Even the wines we drink largely depend on the sunlight the grapes were exposed to, and the consistent temperature which translates the grapes were exposed to, and the consistent temperature, on their terms, translates into the final product.

Savory dishes that taste like broth evoke pleasant emotions in most people. They are a signal that the food is rich in protein. This flavor has been recognized as the fifth basic taste in addition to the four better-known tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. The fact that there are sensory cells specifically for this fifth taste was discovered by a Japanese researcher around 1910, which is why the common Japanese term umami is used for “savory.”

Plants use a process called photosynthesis to make food. During photosynthesis, plants trap light energy with their leaves. Plants use the sun’s energy to change water and carbon dioxide into a sugar called glucose. Plants use glucose for energy and to make other substances like cellulose and starch.

Animals have to hunt or gather food to get the energy they need, but plants can make their own food using light energy from the sun. … This process is called photosynthesis, and it takes place in the chloroplasts, tiny green structures found in the green parts of plants.

What is photosynthesis?

Photosynthesis is a food-making process that occurs in green plants. It is the chief function of leaves. The word photosynthesis means putting together with light.

“Green plants use energy from light to combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and other chemical compounds.”

Photosynthesis. Plants are autotrophs, which means they produce their own food. They use the process of photosynthesis to transform water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and simple sugars that the plant uses as fuel. These primary producers form the base of an ecosystem and fuel the next trophic levels.

Life on Earth depends on:

• plants
• Algae
• Fungi.

For humanity, they are the major source of food, clothing, shelter, and medicine.

Photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose. … Cellular respiration converts oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide.

Water and carbon dioxide are by-products, and ATP is energy transformed from the process.

More influenced by sound?

Sound travels in waves and exists only within a medium. It travels in air at 343 m/s, making it difficult to influence us directly.

Light also travels in a wavelike manner through all mediums at nearly 300,000,000 m/s. But it has both magnetic and electric properties; therefore, it is electromagnetic.

But who makes the noise?

People, animals, threes. They all were exposed to the light stimulus of our sun or underwent photosynthesis. Is it now directly or indirectly because of their food intake? There is no way around it.

Blinded by light

It is not always an indirect impulse that causes us to behave according to impulse, which causes us to behave according to the light.

Directly influenced:

Often happens that sunlight blinds us, which for instance, when we are driving in our car, could end up being disastrous. When it is dark, and we are using artificial light, it influences us in a way that we can see things during the night or darkness which we wouldn’t visualize without it; this being a good or a bad thing is up to you to decide, maybe it was better if you didn’t know it was there?

“In the end, the light again causes us to behave upon.”

The Aftermath of light

Light influences a great part of our lives with or without being aware of it. When finally becoming more aware of the importance and the dangers, we might be able to use light with a better understanding instead of just being exposed to it.

• Many centuries ago, the fire was interrupting our night pattern
• Hypnosis, or better said transfer-state
• Neuro-hypnotism, or better said, nervous sleep
• Etienne Félix d’Henin de Culivers the french magnetiser
• Hypnosis is derived from ancient Greece Hypnos or, better said, “sleep” or even hypnoō, “put to sleep.”
• James Braid, was he wrongly attributed or not?
• Mesmerism, or animal magnetism, was practiced by Franz Mesmer’s ideas and theory and some of his followers.
• Greater light exposure influences our emotional state
• Light time plays an important role in our behaviors, More suicides
• Because of artificial light, we often get interrupted patterns which could cause bad memory.
• The colors we see are actual frequencies
• Frequencies are signal senders
• Light stimulus is the master influencer
• We need light to live well
• Being exposed to light too much isn’t good either!
• Consistent light cycles relate to stable homeostasis
• The importance of photosynthesis
• Savory dishes that taste like broth evoke pleasant emotions
• People, animals, threes. They all were exposed to the light stimulus of our sun
• The light stimuli which influence us can be both directly or indirectly
• Light → the master influencer of our life

“Strongly hypnotized by the light or not?”

Thank you for reading this, I hope this can provide you with some valuable insights or a better understanding of how we are influenced by light.

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