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hypnosis
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Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance , marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary conscious state. In contrast, nonstate theories ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypnotism \Hyp"no*tism\, n. [Gr. ? sleep: cf. F. hypnotisme.] A form of sleep or trance, in some respects resembling somnambulism, but brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestible, and in which suppressed memory may be experienced 2 the art or skill of hypnotism
Usage examples of hypnosis.
Maybe if she found a higher paying job she could afford liposuction or bariatric surgery or one of those hypnosis clinics that kept sending emails.
Over the next several months DeSalvo submitted to an interrogation under hypnosis and recorded fifty hours of detailed confessions for John Bottomry, head of the Strangler Bureau.
The wearing of belts around the body, and rings round the fingers, will also, sometimes, induce a degree of hypnosis, if the subject has been told that they have previously been magnetized or are electric.
I shall ask for volun be put into deep hypnosis and regressed if poible.
Psychological Stress Evaluators, polygraph machines, and truth serums such as thiopental, scopoline, and other drugs which induce truth under hypnosis.
He is gratified when what they eventually recall under hypnosis resembles what he describes in his papers.
Blofeld appears to be attempting cures of these allergies by hypnosis, and not only cures, but a pronounced affinity with the cause of the allergy in place of the previous repulsion.
Our hypnosis plus the Augmentor will ensure that we get them, get across the neurophysiological and temporal gulf of sleep, right into dreaming.
They were the result of a bokor or sorcerer lobotomizing the victim's personality and higher brain functions through hypnosis, autosuggestion, and a complex pharmacopoeia that included fish, frogs, and ferns.
I went hunting and found them in a Food Fair two blocks away, Arthur trundling the basket, Chook mousing along, picking out things, wearing that glazed look of supermarket auto hypnosis.
Charles McQuiston, a former Army intelligence officer who did a Psychological Stress Evaluation of voice recordings of Sirhan, said, "I believe Sirhan was brainwashed under hypnosis by the constant repetition of words like, 'You are nobody, you're nothing, the American dream is gone'.
This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.
Maybe she made a sound and maybe Joe Flent just sensed it, but he turned around and there they were, staring at each other in some sort of mutual hypnosis with God knows what flowing back and forth between them.
A belt clicked, and Pyanfar gnawed her mustaches and fought the hypnosis of the blinking lights, the wash of green on the board- Going to lose her, was the thought that wanted through, and she would not let it.
It had to be hypnosis, some method using high-speed strobing and special sonics that operated right at the nervous system level, something that cut in between her higher thought processes and her physical responses.