From: nick.argall@aplaceof.removedotcom.info.com   
      
   "phil"  wrote in message   
   news:b41d52ee.0408310822.47f38592@posting.google.com...   
   > does anyone know if you can give yourself hypnotic commands while   
   > dreaming? such as tell yourself not to smoke etc.   
   > I'm sure it would as you are in your subconscious mind and that is how   
   > hypnotism works. any ideas?   
      
   Mucking around with 'commands' is tricky and not terribly reliable.   
      
   Better is simply to practice the behaviours you want to discourage, and   
   not-practice the behaviours you want to encourage.  So, (to use the smoking   
   example) if you use the dream as an opportunity to recreate a situation   
   where you would smoke, and then _not_ smoke, and arrange for some sort of   
   happy event in the dream as a reward for not smoking, you can retrain your   
   habits that way.   
      
   Of course, in the case of a chemical dependancy, things get a bit tricky.   
      
      
      
   Nick   
      
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