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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