The capacity to control your dissociative capabilities is very powerful. It allows people to be good at reflective cognition. It allows people to have intense focus on a specific task. Hypnosis, flow, being in the zone-all of these are examples of the trance state that dissociation allows. People who learn to control when and how they go into a trance state have a giftbe careful about labeling dissociation as a pathologyIt can be an incredible strength.

What Happened To You? by Bruce D. Perry