Auto: Chapter 5
Autosuggestion
The hypnotic or subconscious adoption of an idea which one has originated oneself.
Is it real? Before you panic for me, before you gasp, before you shed a tear, you must realise that there is a very real possibility that this was not a very real happening. It is nebulous beyond the point of elucidating (and yet my physical response was visceral to a similar degree of incommunicability). I am an imaginative, creative person — prone to invention, prone to explanation, prone to imposing a pattern, a meaning, on things. (Hence these words, an effortful stringing of slippery symbols in search of tenuous coherence.)