I saw a movie once where a hypnotist put a guy in a trance and then the hypnotist died of a heart attack. How would the person come out of the trance?
Why would I care? I’d be dead. You watch too much tv. Did You Know: Hypnosis dates back to the days of the Egyptian pyramids. The Egyptians were known to induce hypnosis by drawing symbols on a plate and having someone stare at it. Hypnosis heightens your senses, it doesn’t “weaken your will”. Modern Hypnosis is credited to Franz Anton Mesmer, who in the late 1700s discovered hypnotic trances, and would do clinical hypnotherapy on mostly female patients. The Vatican has approved of hypnosis to ease pain during child birth. The AMA recognized hypnosis as a science in 1958. Hypnosis is merely a heightened state of relaxation and suggestibility, not “sleep”. The word Hypnosis comes from the Greek God Hypnos – the God of sleep. You cannot be made to do anything while experiencing hypnosis that is against your will. The more intelligent a person is, the more likely a candidate they make as a hypnosis subject. The more you concentrate on a suggestion, the more profound the hypnosis will be.
