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Hypnosis Myths

Forget all about daytime talk shows featuring “hypnotized” men and women jumping on one leg and squawking like chickens. Though one must admit that it is highly entertaining to watch others make fools of themselves, it’s difficult to believe that such individuals could be made to perform those actions against their wills and purely for entertainment value. In, The Skeptic’s Dictionary, Robert Todd Carroll cites two common myths about hypnosis:

In the “myth of the altered state,” there are two commonly held beliefs:

• that the electrical impulses in the brain are changed and
• that the brain waves shown during the hypnotic state are different from those that are seen during a conscious state.

This is generally seen as part of the myth of hypnosis because there are several cases in which the brain’s electrical impulses are indeed altered, such as when a person is imagining things, or during periods of heavy concentration. This does not diminish the effectiveness of hypnosis in altering a patient’s perception of the world, however.

The “myth of the occult reservoir” holds that those people who have been hypnotized:

• recall events from past lives of which they had no previous knowledge and/or
• state that they were in remote or unknown territory or in unusual time periods.

What is known about hypnosis is this:

• those who are more intensely imaginative are highly suggestible and thus make better hypnotic subjects,
• those who do not believe in the viability of the procedure are not likely to experience results,
• the individual is not controlled in any way by the hypnotist or put into a “zombie-like” state,
• personality types, extroversion or introversion, and gender bear little relation to how well the participant can be hypnotized.

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