It is a fact that, on average, the conscious mind can focus and keep 5-9 items in order at a time. Five things are usually pretty easy for a person to remember and nine is starting to get pretty hard. As you can see, this isn’t a huge number when you put it in the number of items, facts, or ideas you can rattle off in conversation.

This is why when you’re having a conversation with a person about their car being in the shop and they start giving you a bunch of different facts about the car they drive, the car their parents drive, the car uncle drives Tom and the car. Aunt Hilda drives, you might get confused.

You’ll be so busy trying to keep the different cars, the people who drive them, and the facts about them in order that you’ll miss the point of the conversation in the first place. His speaker was talking about his car being in the shop.

Overloading the mind with any information will cause the critical factor to be distracted by unimportant information or shut down completely. This is an advantage for you as a hypnotist because you can attach a hint and it will flow right through.

If a person is able to keep track of information, then most likely he will focus on the wrong information, which will still distract from the critical factor and again allow his suggestion anyway.

The idea behind overloading people with details is precisely that. No matter what the topic is or how it’s presented, whether it’s fact, fiction, or just random information, you really want to give them plenty of detail to utilize this powerful concept to its fullest.

The next linguistic trick or pattern of confusion that you will use to overload your mind is called a spontaneous change of meaning. This is done by the sudden and unexpected combination of two different statements. When you take two statements that end and start with the same word, you can mix them up to form a sentence that just doesn’t add up.

For example, “I’m going to the store, the milk ran out.” In this statement, the meaning at the beginning and at the end is fine, they make sense. But somewhere in the middle, things get a little confusing, confusing enough that you have to stop and think about what I just said.

If you unmount the declaration, you’ll see that ‘I’m going to the store’ is pretty run-of-the-mill; like ‘The store has no milk’. This sudden change in the way people are used to hearing things causes the critical factor to stall for confusion. When that happens, you can simply add your suggestion to the conversation flow and it will again go unnoticed.

Another way to incorporate spontaneous meaning changes into your conversational hypnosis is to introduce a suggestion into your conversation and then continue speaking as if it never happened. This again causes enough confusion for the critical factor to want to stop to figure it out.

This is overridden by the fact that you’re still talking and there’s no time to go back to figure it out. Now the unconscious picks up the suggestion and stores it for future use. Again, your suggestion creeps into the mind because it misses the confusing critical factor.

As you include more and more of these spontaneous changes, the mind will not only pick up on the conversation you are having out loud, but it will begin to recognize the pattern that is being created within through the hidden messages.

Yet another way to use this change in meaning is to avoid ambiguity and simply combine two statements that end and begin with the same word together. These statements will make more sense and be a little less confusing, but they will still be distracting. The key here is to make sure you add these statements casually to the conversation, otherwise they will be noticed and caught.

Also remember to use them when you need them, not for any other statement. If you use this spontaneous change of meaning too often, you can become annoying and overbearing, which is true of most confusing language tactics. Getting too confusing can backfire in the sense that your listeners will no longer be interested in listening to you.

Finally we come to the language confusion concept of shock and surprise. This is a fascinating concept, anytime you really surprise or surprise someone you will automatically miss the critical factor and succeed. Shock and surprise will create their own kind of trance induction.

Just being shocked and surprised, your conscious thinking will immediately go into overload and shut down, leaving only the unconscious open to suggestion and ready to follow instructions, which is perfect for a hypnotist.

There is a caution in the shock and surprise method. Some people don’t like to be surprised or shocked, so make sure you choose the right times and the right people to use this technique.