A very effective confusion pattern tactic is the spontaneous change of meaning. This one is also pretty interesting, so pay attention.

If I say to you, "Go ahead right into trance now." notice how I have actually combined two different sentences into one and I've kind of fudged the corners, the edges of the reality between them by using, again, ambiguous message.

"Go ahead" is a normal statement. "Head right into trance" is another normal statement. "Go ahead right into trance now" begins to fudge the barrier between those two statements and makes them into one.

Because you have a sudden change of direction, it surprises the guardian of the gate, confuses him because for a moment he goes, "Hang on a second, that doesn't fit." But by then you are on a different track altogether and everybody moves smoothly into hypnotic elements.

Another way to use this change of meaning is to introduce a suggestion and carry on with the old idea as though nothing ever happened.

Because you are carrying on through, people don't have time in their mind to jump back and think about it. But because something unusual happened, there is an unconscious "aha" moment.

And the unconscious spots it, "Hey, something is going on" and decides to do something about it or at least to store it. If more and more of these things are happening, it suddenly goes, "There's a pattern here." It begins to pay attention to the pattern as well as the overt communication itself.

You don't necessarily have to rely on an ambiguity to create this change of meaning spontaneously. The way to do this very simply is to take two statements, two sentences, one of which begins with the same word or the same phrase as the other one ends with. For example: "You can relax now is the time to learn about conversational hypnosis."

Notice how, in that statement, I have the two sentences:

"You can relax now," and,

"Now is the time to learn about conversational hypnosis."

Because they both begin with the same word "now", all you do is collapse a word into one and you run the sentence through as though you forgot that you were changing topic.

Go ahead and construct your own ones and begin to just drop them just one at a time into normal conversations. Remember, the secret here is to drop them casually and see if anyone notices. Just keep running through.

Don't litter your entire conversation with these things because they will get annoying and overbearing. In fact, this is a general point for all kinds of confusional language. Don't suddenly become the most confusing person on earth that no one can understand because that can be very counter productive.

Confusion is a very powerful pattern to use, but know when it's time to use it and it's more like the spices that you put on a meal.

Put in too much and you've ruined the meal. Put in too little and the meal is bland.

But with the just the right amount, just the right hint of spices and suddenly the meal becomes a wonderful thing.