I honestly cannot tell if I’m asleep or not. Or even under a form of meditation cover yet. Maybe I’m just somewhere in-between. Yet here I am lying in bed, listening through earbuds to my friend Nick ...

Self-hypnosis is a process that involves using certain techniques to enter a hypnotic state. While in a state of intense relaxation, people often try to visualize certain goals. Self-hypnosis has its ...

For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

Writing for The Conversation, David Acunzo, an assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, examines when and why hypnosis may be used ...

When you think about hypnosis, what do you visualize? For many, it’s a clock-swinging magician or a comedy act that forces an unwitting volunteer to make embarrassing public admissions on stage. But ...

In the movies, hypnosis usually involves someone falling under the magical spell of a villainous character. The hypnotized person then goes into a trace and carries out the hypnotizer's nefarious ...