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(2. My effect concerns an interference in my vision, without an actual loss of sight. It produced no aftereffects this evening, nor had it ever in earlier years beyond a very slight headache. Tonight I didn’t get the headache. Strangely I’ve never been alarmed by this phenomenon. With my somewhat secretive nature I’d had no urge, even as a child, to tell my parents about it, or to see a doctor. The absence of aftereffects, and the continued clarity of my mental processes, may have been reassuring.

(Tonight’s experience wasn’t that intense. I first realized its onset at about 8:50, and at once began to give myself suggestions to minimize it because I didn’t want to alarm Jane by delaying the session. At the same time Jane began to describe the smile she perceived in the painting; I could see the painting well enough when she asked me to check it, although my vision effect was still building. My suggestions were very beneficial, though, and by session time at 9:05 I realized that not only had my experience gone as “far” as it was going to go, but also that it was on the retreat. By 9:15 the last traces of it were gone and my vision was clear.

(9:28. The difficulty I had been experiencing with my spelling abruptly returned to an even greater degree. Along with the misspellings and the crossing out of words, I now had to worry about simply keeping up with Seth’s rather slow pace. For the first time I thought of asking for a break, yet I still wasn’t alarmed. I had trouble with the whole paragraph.)

(9:35. Again I quickly fell way behind. When I found myself writing “ichstantale” for “extinguished,” I gave up and asked Seth for a break. It came at once. I was nonplussed. I was clearheaded but unable, literally, to continue taking notes. Still I wasn’t alarmed.

Because he has not built up the good trust of his body, however, any new discomfort, regardless of origin, alarms him—an alarm that causes him to tense his muscles, withhold his weight, become hesitant—actions that of course themselves bring about stress, and prolong what should be a fairly minor adjustment. [...]

Several times during the weekend I became alarmed about my eyes and Rob, too. [...]

[...] But their increasing frequency alarmed us considerably today. [...]

[...] Both of us were once again alarmed. [...]

[...] This of course presupposes the fact that the symptoms are present to alarm him. If the alarm is set at four-hour intervals, this can eliminate the onset of symptoms, but in each case he would then rise and move about some. [...]

[...] The alarms are off. [...]

[...] No one was alarmed but when the sky stopped doing that I said something about always being very relieved each time it was over. [...]

[...] He would have been alarmed had he always felt that relaxed. [...]

[...] After Marilyn left Jane and I discovered that both of us had been alarmed by the child in some vague way; his actions had been quite overtly strong, we thought, involving such things as pretending to kill our cat Willy, taking swings at Jane and me, etc. [...]

[...] I was doing so well when the alarm rang at 11:30 that I set it for another half hour beyond my usual time.

(After I reset the alarm I tried to wander to the other side of the motel to find a name sign. [...]

[...] When alarm rang second time some lightness remained. [...]

[...] Before beginning the experiment at 11 A.M., I had set the alarm clock for 11:30. [...]

I didn’t know if it would work or not, but I reset the alarm for thirty minutes later, then I lay back down and told myself I would return to the same place. [...]

[...] It seemed that only moments had passed, but the alarm rang once again. [...]

The car with the siren might disappear, yet the alarmed person’s attitude and actions may very well instantly cause his or her companion to realize that something was clearly amiss. [...]

[...] Yet none of its own sources of information show any cause for alarm: you are both obviously in the house together. [...]

With your cultural training and background, however, the feeling itself further alarms you, so that you become highly anxious, and it is that anxiety itself that is the real symptom, say; it is the anxiety you should question. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s reaction to stressful situations was a repressive one: he did indeed often feel in a steady state of some alarm. [...]

[...] He, again, also learned to identify with tension, so there can be some alarm as he lets it dissolve. [...]

[...] I set the alarm clock, lay down in the bedroom, closed my eyes and relaxed without giving myself any suggestions except that for complete relaxation. [...]

[...] Then the alarm rang, yet still I lay there, had some slight difficulty in opening eyes but did so. [...]

(Jane was also correct in suspecting that her suggestion to go slowly, after her first ego-alarm, was literally interpreted by her subconscious; hence the later manifestation of symptoms quite a while after her experiment had “ended.” [...]

[...] I felt that even at its height she understood the state she was in, and was not alarmed. [...]

[...] I believe the dream discussed above might have been interrupted by the alarm clock. [...]

(I did not feel alarm, but could have been alerted. [...]

That insidious mistrust of creative abilities is alarmingly dangerous to the society, and frightening to the individual. [...]

[...] All was quiet in the halls re Teresa and Christine, though before Jane was through the emergency alarm sounded by the elevators outside our door. [...]

[...] Any public service announcements, so-called, publicizing symptoms connected with his sensitive area, will immediately alarm him. [...]

[...] Marian surprised us by agreeing, after we had explained to her that there was nothing to be alarmed about. [...]

[...] It is a state of alarm and readiness. You are so used to feeling unsafe that you consider alarm of one kind or another as a realistic approach to life.