I have a dissociative disorder (likely C-PTSD) and was once put into a hypnotic trance from sensitivity to sound that would bring back memories of a past life. I would never have believed in hypnosis previously. I was put into my subconscious observing my body acting out a basic program like a robot. The mind compartmentalizes this identity and puts away the dominant 'you' as the observer and it becomes the new dominant. The program was put in there by me. Before I went into this trance, my mind was running through alternates about how to handle the situation. I would say 9/10 I would continue to handle it one way, 1/10 I would do the other. Eventually, those odds were completely rendered useless as my brain shut off the 9/10 and the 1/10 became 100% of the consideration. I felt like I was observing a robot who had taken over my body and I had no input, I just observed. My body was in a 20 GOTO 10 loop. After the noise had stopped, I found myself exactly where I had begun and had difficulty believing what happened really happened only to have it confirmed.

Imagine if this programming is put in there not by you but by an external person. And imagine if this programming doesn't just disappear the moment you leave the trance. You have or had an external human personality controlling you. Not a compartmentalized section of you, but a compartmentalized section devoted to someone else. This may cause permanent fracturing inside, traces that never completely leave you. With my personal hypnosis, it was all me. It was that 1 in 10 that became exclusively dominant, but it was me. It wouldn't have been if the hypnosis was conducted as part of a therapy. I'm not sure what the results were of my experience or whether it has left any permanent trace, but clearly it isn't the same thing as having another persons voice planted inside you. It just amplified something I already had in my mind and was closeted post event.

When I read that it is theorized that DID may be more associated with hypnotic therapy than trauma, I instantly believe it. Hypnosis may be dangerous and I wouldn't allow someone else to hypnotize you as it may cause permanent or long standing fracturing inside. It's not the fun plaything and party trick people assume but something that might leave you with permanent or long-standing mental issues. It's not a far-fetched conspiracy theory. The idea of planting a hypnotic suggestion in peoples brains and then clicking a finger and causing them to enact it and become assassins may be, I don't know. But DID is less sensational than this. I don't believe it's a hypnotic state, I believe it's a compartmentalized programming in the brain that becomes part of your normal decision making, it is the alternate voices in your brain that help instruct you on which decision to make only you are now also being instructed by a remnant of someone else and this remnant may rise to overriding dominance in certain circumstances. The basic notion of programming people to do things has some basis in fact. If you have allowed yourself to get hypnotized by others often, consider getting yourself checked for DID.

I wonder how many people who have been told to act like a chicken under hypnosis have chicken split personalities that never leave them? :/ Do they ever make chicken sounds in their heads or get the idea of flapping about their arms like wings just out of the blue, whether or not it rises to the point of acting it out? Do I buy this breakfast cereal or act like a chicken and bwaa-bwaa-BWAAARRRK?

Also, think about the possibility all our good and bad 'angels' instructing us are caused by DID. All the things that weigh up our decision making (our internal voices) may be variations of DID, whether or not it seems like it is a second discrete other personality or part of us. It may not be technically DID, but it all could very well be part of the same continuum. We may go our lives in various lesser states of hypnosis allowing our brains to be programmed by what is right or wrong and how to behave. Psychopaths and sociopaths (overwhelming bad voice) and unquestioning people may be programmed with little or no contrasting voices, they may be less susceptible to hypnosis or they might be hypnotized more often; they might have less fluctuation in in and out dissociative states that allows the development of a continual exchange of contrasting voices or they might fluctuate too much that creates an imbalance in right and wrong. Indeed, dissociative states like daydreaming may be these milder forms of hypnosis as it's part of the same continuum. Something as seemingly harmless as daydreaming and the ability to daydream may shape us positively or negatively more than we could imagine.