Is hypnosis a form of travel?

I was in a post traumatic stress disorder and self hypnosis treatment program. And they do teach you to travel but its not traveling like the Shaman travels. There is a difference . Its a simple answer if you have done both and not so simple if you havent. Hypnosis is done the same way but is very controlled by the brain and thoughts and feelings. You teach your brain to shut off and go where you need or want it to go. And then you can do whatever you want to do while you are there. If your not to controlled in hypnosis you can see things that
you thought you didnt put there but your brain really creates it so it will make simple connections to remember and store information.
Its done with repetitive motion or sound. .

A Shaman has a gift of doing and seeing things that are not controlled. When Im traveling I can "put" things in my travels but I cant change where I go a nor can I change the main purpose I am there.

Say I was traveling to a forest and I am to see an attack by a cougar. In my travels the cougar attacks me.
I can create a deer to stand between us and watch it kill the deer. however if the travel lesson was for me to die to see where I was to be buried, the cougar would attack the deer and then a tree would fall on me. I might be able to change the scene but I cannot change its outcome. I should add that the more I interfere the more traumatic the travel is. Also....I cant change who I talk to in the travels or what they say.

Its very disturbing when my travels include people or spirits. It is very draining and almost always has some negative affect on my body. Talking with the elders this way, is not the same as traveling either. Its more of a state in which I open my shell to allow the spirit world to converse with me.

Thats the diff of being a traveler and a hypnosis. as simply as I can put it."




This is something I wrote before I learned to direct my travels. In the beginning I had no control over where I went. I had to learn the ways of
the underworld and how to travel. Now things are different. I go to many places and stay and go as I please.

Talking with the spirits is still harder for me than simple traveling. Spirits tend to drain me so much they make me ill. I am not a medium.
That is something quite clear to me, but if I must retrieve one, I will do it and deal with the illness later.