The White Rabbit, Raising The Flag

There is little chance that the client will be present in the same room as me at the time their first trance is induced. In order to make sure that a hypnosis sound file takes, I have to make sure the client gives me a sign.

I call this the White Rabbit.

Basically, the White Rabbit was the first sign that things are awry in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Popping up out of nowhere, checking his watch, proclaiming his lamentable tardiness for an unspecified appointment, he popped down the rabbit hole which led Alice to wonder if that really had been tea in that cup she'd just had. And so it is with my induction files.

As a matter of fact, I use The White Rabbit in my lucid dreaming scripts. Once you are settling down to sleep, once you have been given the lucid dreaming script, at some point during your slumber, you will dream. And in that dream, you will bump into The White Rabbit. At that point, the Rabbit will usually tell you, in my voice, that you are dreaming. Once you realise that you are dreaming, that is the start of your lucid dream phase.

Call it what you will - the White Rabbit, the Flag - every successful trance, induction and instruction script needs these little markers to let the hypnotist know, on the outside, that the program has started to run on the inside.