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The term hypnosis comes from the ancient Greek word hypnos, which means to sleep.

Avicenna, a Persian physician, was one of the first to describe hypnosis.

He believed that a strong personality or soul could influence others via hypnotism.

In Greece, there were sleep temples named Aslepions in honor of the great God of medicine, Asclepius.

Here, patients underwent incubation or sleeping in a sacred place in the hopes of receiving a divinely inspired dream or cure.

There's evidence of hypnosis nearly 5,000 years ago.

In ancient Egyp, people would enter sleep temples where they ingested herbs and recited hours of rhythmic prayer in an attempt to be cured of whatever was ailing them.

Scottish surgeon James Braid was the first to coin the word hypnotism in the 1840s.

A person cannot be hypnotized against their will.

Some people have higher hypnotic suggestibility or susceptibility to hypnosis.

Everyone experiences trance like hypnosis every day, such as when we are daydreaming in deep thought or watching.