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  • For a long time, hypnosis has been a popular point in the entertainment business

  • And while it is often described as a sleep-like trance state

  • It is expressed as a state characterized by focused attention

  • Extreme suggestibility and heightened imagination

  • It is most often compared to daydreaming

  • When you are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the distracting stimuli around you

  • One theory suggests that hypnosis is a way to access a person's subconscious mind directly

  • But what does this mean?

  • Well normally, you are only aware of the thought process in your conscious mind

  • Meaning you are consciously thinking over the problems that are right in front of you

  • Thinking about where you left your keys, or what color to wear

  • This is how your conscious mind solves problems

  • By accessing the information you need through your subconscious mind

  • What's interesting is that your subconscious gets the information

  • Without your awareness of its thought processing

  • Which is how you get new ideas out of the blue

  • But that's not all

  • Your subconscious also takes care of stuff you do automatically

  • from how you breathe, to the way you look in the mirror when you drive a car

  • So in short, your subconscious mind is the

  • "Thinking", behind the scenes

  • And during hypnosis, the subconscious mind is exposed directly to a hypnotist

  • Which is why you feel freer and may be more expressive

  • Because the conscious mind is not filtering the information you take in

  • The hypnotist suggestions seem like they're coming directly from your subconscious

  • Rather than from another person

  • And this theory has gained wide acceptance in the psychiatric community

  • Mostly because it explains all the major characteristics of the hypnotic state

  • But others view the phenomenon simply as a placebo effect

  • Due to social pressure, and the influence of the hypnotists

  • Which is often strong enough to convince people that they should act in a certain way

  • And while our understanding of hypnosis has advanced a great deal in the past century

  • The phenomenon is still...

  • A mystery.

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For a long time, hypnosis has been a popular point in the entertainment business

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