You've never been hypnotized, right? Never gone onstage and been put into a trance by a magician who told you to do some silly thing - and you did it? Wrong. If you've ever spaced out at the wheel and ...

The experience of a hypnotic trance not so unusual or strange. To the contrary, it feels vaguely familiar to countless other moments in your life where you were absorbed in a zone, lost in thought, ...

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These can range from zoning out when someone is yelling at you, to running on adrenaline when you have an accident. Trance states are a form of dissociating, which can be beneficial. But you don't ...

Hypnosis has been a subject of interest for well over a century and has been used since the beginning of civilization. In the past, it was just a trance or a dream state, a ritual dance, or perhaps ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hypnosis has taken on a new focus. More and more parents are now putting their kids under a hypnotic trance, but some say the practice may be going too far. Eric Ferrer-Alfaro, ...

I used to believe hypnosis was utter nonsense, something that esoteric people with swinging pendulums do. However, a self-experiment taught me how wrong I was. Medical hypnosis can actually work.

Is there a difference between being in “trance” and being in a “hypnotic state”? I find these two terms quite confusing because of what I have experienced involving these two states of consciousness.

Hypnosis is a tool with many useful dermatologic applications. It involves guiding the patient into a trance state for a specific purpose such as relaxation, pain or pruritus reduction, or habit ...

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A New York City celebrity is offering a $100,000 award to anyone who can put someone in a hypnotic trance in the wake of a Kennewick criminal case where a woman says she was sexually assaulted by an ...