What does it feel like to be hypnotized

I believe many of my friends have watched movies about hypnosis. In the movies, the people involved will be hypnotized, but what does it feel like to be hypnotized? I believe most people still don’t know it clearly. After all, we generally won’t be hypnotized in our daily lives. However, there are a lot of criminals in society today, and their methods are becoming more and more sophisticated. Hypnosis is also a method that many criminals need to master.

In fact, in medicine, hypnosis is used to help some patients treat their diseases, mostly psychological diseases. However, in modern times, hypnosis technology is often used by many people with ill intentions to commit crimes. This is something we cannot tolerate, and of course it is something we all need to guard against. So, let’s talk in detail about what it feels like to be hypnotized.

Generally, people who are hypnotized have the following important characteristics after hypnosis:

1. Sensory paralysis

Some subjects were even able to undergo surgery without feeling any pain while under hypnosis. Some doctors have even used it instead of anesthetic drugs, but its effect is obviously not as good as painkillers.

2. Sensory distortions and hallucinations

People in a hypnotic state may experience auditory and visual hallucinations. Not only can he hear sounds and see images without stimulation, but sometimes he can also, following the instructions, see the TV as a cardboard box and smell bad smells as fragrances.

3. Remove inhibitions

Under normal circumstances, things that are not allowed by social norms are suppressed and we are unlikely to do them. But in a hypnotic state, inhibitions are lifted, and we will act according to the hypnotist's instructions, such as undressing in public and committing violence against others.

4. Loss of memory of the hypnotic experience

The hypnotist's suggestions not only guide the subject's psychological activities at the time, but also affect his subsequent behavior. The most common method is to tell the subject that he will not remember what happened at the time, so that the memory of the hypnotic state disappears completely after waking up.

There are four types of hypnosis

1. Environmental hypnosis

Being in a highly obedient trance - like a state caused by overstimulation, such as being in love or being stuck in traffic. After hypnosis, a person's memory of this period will disappear.

2. Stage hypnosis

Performance hypnosis for the purpose of entertaining the general public.

3. Hypnosis by others

Hypnosis by a hypnotist therapist

4. Self-hypnosis

Use what you learned in the hypnotherapist's office to practice self-hypnosis at home.

Through the detailed introduction in the above article, we all know the common types of hypnosis in today's society, namely: environmental hypnosis, stage hypnosis, hypnosis of others and self-hypnosis. Of course, we also learned that being hypnotized generally causes: paralysis, sensory distortion and hallucinations, and disinhibition, etc. This is very helpful for us to be wary of being hypnotized in the future.