Hypnosis is the art of projecting thoughts into other people's minds. They are also referred to by the name of hypnotizers.
Hypnosis can be classified into a variety of categories, based on the kind of trance the hypnotist uses in their job.
One currently successful psychic entertainer in our era is Jon Finch.
Finch's skills include suggestion, ideomotor responses, regression, visualization.
Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and a greater capacity to respond to suggestion. The term could be used to refer to an art, skill or the act of provoking hypnosis.
Theories explaining what occurs in hypnosis can be divided into two types. The theories of altered state view hypnosis as an altered state of mind, also known as Trance, characterized by a state of consciousness that is different from the normal conscious state. The opposite of this is that 'nonstate' theories see hypnosis as an act of imagination or role enactment.
The most common
mesmerism
is the acquisition of memories through suggestion, however other forms are often included.
In hypnosis, an individual is said to experience increased focus and concentration. Attention is narrowed down to the subject at hand, and the hypnotized individual is believed to be in trance or sleep state, and has the ability to react to suggestion. The subject may experience partial amnesia, allowing them to 'forget' things or disconnect from past or present memories. The theory is that they exhibit an increased response to suggestions, which would explain why the person could perform actions that aren't in line with the normal behavior patterns.
Many experts believe that hypnotic susceptibility is a result of personality traits. Highly hypnotizable individuals with personality traits such as psychopathic, narcissistic or Machiavellian personality traits may experience that hypnotic experiences are more like controlling another person instead of being controlled. But, those with an altruistic personality type will likely remember and take in ideas more easily and act upon their suggestions with confidence, without fearing for their safety.
Theories that describe the hypnotized state describe it variously as a state of intense arousal and attentional focusing and changes in brain activity, levels of consciousness or dissociation.
In popular culture the word "hypnosis" often brings to thoughts stereotypical depictions of stage hypnosis, which involves the dramatic transformation of the state of being awake into an euphoric state. It is usually associated with the subject's arm dropping hypnotically towards their side, the suggestion that they're either drunk or asleep and a subsequent request that they perform some action. Stage hypnosis is usually carried out by an entertainer who plays the role of an hypnotist. The subject's compliance is enacted by placing them in a state of trance where they will accept and follow suggestions given to them.
"Hypnosis," as a verb, is used to describe "hypnosis" can be used to refer to non-state phenomena. There has been some argument that the results observed during hypnotic inductions are instances of classical conditioning and the responses that have been learned from prior experiences using the state of hypnosis. But, it is widely agreed upon in the field that in artificially-induced states of high suggestibility (known as trance logic) it is possible to experience high levels of language, logic and cognitive functioning that operates normally even when it appears to be highly focused. This paradoxical result has been speculated to be due to two cooperating processes working in opposing ways: one getting more focused, and the other process becoming less focused. The hypnotic subject is able to experience a narrowing of their focus, but simultaneously it is able to concentrate on matters that relate to the suggestion made by the hypnotist.
There are a variety of theories regarding what is actually happening within the brain when a person is hypnotized. However, there does seem to be some consensus that it's an amalgamation of a concentrated concentration and an altered state.
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People who are under hypnosis will have attention focused on the brain region where the hypnotist's voice is coming from. This causes a heightening of processing of attention that shuts out all other sensory information. Hypnotized individuals are able to concentrate on the recommended behavior, but are still able to carry out tasks that aren't in their normal behavior patterns. The intense concentration leads to an altered state in the brain.