"We'll go with the charming men and women." This could mean we'll go with the charming men and the women (who may or may not be charming), or we'll go with the men who are charming and the women who are charming.
"I don't know how soon you will fully realize that you are sitting here comfortably, listening to the sound of my voice, and you are going into a deep trance only as quickly as your unconscious mind wants… ." Here it is unclear whether the verb "realize" applies to the entire sentence or onlv to what precedes the word "and." If "realize" applies to the whole sentence, everything following "realize" is presupposed.
d) Punctuation ambiguity. This kind of ambiguity is created by putting two sentences together that end and begin with the same word.
"Your coat looks like it is made of goose down deeply into trance." Here the word "down" is the end of the first sentence,
"Your coat looks like it is made of goose down" and also the beginning of the following phrase "down deeply into trance."
"That's right now you've already begun to relax."
"I'm speaking clearly to make sure that you can hear you are, in the process of hypnosis."
"How are you able to go into a deep trance?"
C. Patterns in Metaphor
The final set of patterns is particularly useful when using metaphorical communication, as well as when using other kinds of hypnosis. There are many other patterns that are useful in effective story–telling. However, the following two are generally thought of as part of the Milton–Model.
1) Selectional Restriction Violations. This refers to the attribution of qualities to something or someone which by definition could not possess those qualities. For example, if I talk about a rock that was very sad or a man who is pregnant, I am violating selectional restriction, since rocks do not experience feelings and men do not get pregnant. The listener needs to find some way of making sense out of statements like this. If I talk about the experiences the sad rock had, and the changes it made, the listener is likely to make sense out of my statements by applying them to himself. "The rock can't be sad, so it must be me." This process is not a conscious one, but an automatic way of understanding what is said.
2) Quotes. This pattern involves making any statement you want to make to another person as if you are reporting in quotes what someone else said at another time and place.
Quotes can be used to deliver any message without taking respon–sibilitv for the message. Since you are apparently talking about what someone else said at another time, your listener will often respond to the message, but not consciously identify what he is responding to, or who is responsible for the message.
You can talk to someone about a client of Milton Erickson's who wanted to really learn about hypnosis. He listened to Erickson talk about hypnosis and thought that he understood. Then Erickson turned to him and said emphatically "You don't really know something until you've practiced every piece of it thoroughly!"
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