Are people with ASD immune to hypnotism?
I went to a therapeutic hypnotist once - she tole me that before we began I needed to find a "Place where I felt safe" - where I could go to if the hypnosis took me any place bad. I had something like a panic attack trying to think about a "Place where I felt safe". I never went back.
I went to see a stage hypnotist once when I was in college - I didn't want to be hypnotized into doing anything embarrassing or creepy so I decided to see if I could give myself a self-hypnotic suggestion that I would KNOW if anyone was trying to hypnotize me or make a hypnotic suggestion. As the show went on I stood at the back of the audience and watched - every time the hypnotist said something "suggestive" this big red "X" appeared in my mind's eye - kind of like on a game show.
He hypnotized 4 people. While they were still "under" he gave them the suggestion "the next time I'm preforming here, if you are here . . . if I'm preforming here you WILL be here . . . you will volunteer again." Big red X. I thought that one was dirty pool. The guy did say that some people cannot be hypnotized. I have no idea if my attempt to make a self-hypnotic suggestion really had any effect or not - but it seemed to me that it did.
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seems like it to me as that seems to indicate that you were both relaxed yet alert.
A mental state in which I am relaxed yet alert — to me, this sounds like a pretty good definition of hypnosis!
Or, maybe this is the broad overview, and hypnosis is one subtype.
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You still have the relaxing experience of walking into the friendly confines of a familiar bar. And then you’ve made a conscious decision, for example, maybe even writing down in some fashion, of having two beers and thoroughly enjoying those two beers and then switching to ice tea?
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