TossedByWaves75 wrote on Feb 28
th, 2022 at 6:12pm:
When doing blocked breathing do you start wherever you are in your current breath or do you have to breathe in or out beforehand?
As we mention at p. 154 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, one should hold at the bottom of the respiratory cycle, that is, after breathing out.
Quote:And after doing it, is there a right or wrong way recover your normal breathing pattern? I tend to take a deep breath afterwards.
Deep breaths should generally be avoided.
Quote:I've read the book and watched Doug William's video. In his video, he seems to indicate that doing just the mental reactions is better than trying to manually control your breathing. What's your take on that?
The respiratory channel is the only one over which the subject exercises direct control. This being so, it seems prudent to me to ensure that one produces a breathing reaction to the "control" questions (and that one produces no such reaction to the relevant questions).
Quote:All the things I've seen, especially in the video, showed examples of people showing no reaction to relevant questions, but what if you do show a reaction to one, even a large reaction, and they ask if you're using countermeasures and you show a large reaction to that, is the reaction to the control question going to cover it? Or does it raise red flags to that one relevant question having a reaction when you show little or no reaction to others?
Typically, questions about whether the subject is using countermeasures are not asked during polygraph chart collections.
If a subject exhibits a significant reaction to a relevant question, it's possible that he will fail the polygraph. Reactions to the corresponding "control" question may or may not be enough to allow the subject to pass.