The research helps to understand how hypnosis produces changes in a hypnotized person's behavior and subjective experiences. During a normal waking state, information is processed and shared by ...

In the 1840s, a Scottish doctor living in India named James Esdaile was frequently visited by men with enormous tumours (weighing up to 45 kg) in the scrotum, caused by mosquito bites. The ...

As you enter hypnosis, you actually disconnect your mind from the body and surroundings. That means that your awareness is withdrawn from the normal alert state you walk around in and goes inwardly.

Alice Braga (as Diana Cruz): “Hypnotics make everything you see and do feel perfectly normal.” “Hypnotic” begins mesmerizing moviegoers on Friday.

Another camp believes that under hypnosis, the brain functions just as it would at any other time while awake, and that other, normal processes — like an active imagination — are at work.