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Hypnosis   Listen
noun
Hypnosis  n.  
1.
(Med.) Supervention of sleep.
2.
The condition of being hypnotized or the process of hypnotizing a person; hypnotism (1).





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"Hypnosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and some of the best known operators who have recorded their experiments assert that suggestions not in accord with the best interest of the patient could not be carried out. No one was ever induced to commit any crime under hypnosis, that could not have been induced to do the same thing ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... Self-hypnosis required nearly ten minutes. The first five or six minutes were taken up in relaxing from his exertions. Gravity notwithstanding, he had had to push his hundred and eighty pounds over a considerable distance. When he was completely relaxed and completely hypnotized, he reached up ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the tiny bundle of cells that controlled the psi factor, and learned to stimulate them by artificial wave trains and hypnosis. But the small group in the top division of the government to whom they were responsible ...
— Pursuit • Lester del Rey
... moment when the young lady was gazing so—so intently at the piece of shiny glass." He made a funny grunt in his throat. "Let me congratulate you, Mr.—Mr. Smith!" he said. "Your treatment was most efficient!—Your hypnosis was ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... went on. "Old Doc Leeharvis was handling the hypnosis herself. She hit what she thought might be a mind-block when she tried to get you to remember what happened. We know now it wasn't a mind-block. But she wouldn't monkey with you any farther, and told me to get in an expert. ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... it was done surreptitiously. Sweat dripped from the faces of the dancers, deep flushes discoloured all not so heavily enamelled as to preserve an inalterable complexion, the eyes of many stared with the fixity of hypnosis. Yet when the music ended with an unexpected crash of discord these dancers applauded insatiably till the jaded orchestra struck up once more, when they renewed their ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... "During actual hypnosis," says Mr. Harry Vincent, "frequently the contraction of the muscles is so obvious that the subject appears to be indulging ...
— Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men • John Harris


Words linked to "Hypnosis" :   hypnotize, hypnotic, psychological state, mental condition, hypnotise


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