“In the normal waking state any proposition about any topic or object is received more or less critically, and is only accepted with conviction if it is not incompatible with the organized body of knowledge or belief about that topic or kind of object already established in the mind. Every idea, we may say, has to withstand or overcome the inhibiting tendencies of these other ideas connected with the same topic before it is fully accepted, before it can prevail stably and determine action in the way characteristic of belief. But in the state of relative dissociation, any idea introduced to the mind by the operator prevails stably and determines action — is, in fact, accepted with belief — just because the ideas which could check or weaken its operation are not aroused, are not brought to bear upon it in criticism, owing to the state of relative dissociation which renders all interplay of ideas more difficult, more sluggish, than in the waking state. Further, in the waking state not only contradictory ideas, but all ideas whatsoever that have any tendency to rise to consciousness at the moment, play a similar part, weakening to some extent the force with which the dominant idea at the focus of consciousness operates in the mind and on the body.”