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Introduction

“You are completely relaxed… you feel warm and comfortable … you feel
you really need to close your eyes and sleep… your eyelids are getting heavy…
heavier… and heavier… slowly, you close them… now they are closed… you are
getting sleepier…. and sleepier…. you are going to SLEEP…… deeper and
deeper asleep… SLEEP!”

Many of us are familiar with this scene: A bizarre-looking man holds a
clock pendant and continuously, determinedly swings it in front of a vulnerable,
lost-looking young woman. He utters the phrase repeatedly, in slower and lower
intonation: “You’re getting sleepy… You’re getting sleepy…” The girl stares
blankly into the clock. The world turns and swirls around her, spiraling and
spiraling. Then eventually, she starts to act like

(a) a zombie

(b) a vamp

(c) a chicken

(d) all of the above simultaneously.

Thanks to popular culture, hypnotism has achieved an eerie, mystical,
otherworldly and sometimes evil reputation. While the scenario illustrated above
may have a little ring of truth to it (Hypnosis using verbal suggestion is powerful;
and people under hypnosis can be made to believe and therefore act as a
different identity), there is certainly a lot more than meets the eye about
hypnotism.

 

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