Look Into My Eyes: Case for a True Hypnotic State Shown in the Eyes?
- Posted on October 26, 2011 at 4:18pm by
Liz Klimas
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Can someone be hypnotized or not? Doctors, and anyone who has been to one of those entertainment dinners on a cruise ship, debate whether it’s possible or if someone is just faking it. Maybe after you see some start to squalk like a chicken in a room full of strangers you start to believe, but that’s still not based on scientific evidence.
Now, a team of international researchers believe they have a clue to helping support a true hypnotic state. They report that it’s in the iconic, glazed over eyes.
This is a photo of the subject's eyes focused in a non-hypnotized state. (Photo: Suomen Akatemia)
Noticed how the eyes are wider, unfocused here in a hypnotized state. (Photo: Suomen Akatemia)
The researchers from Finland and Sweden, according to Science Daily, used a “highly hypnotizable” woman, who can become hypnotized by a one-word cue:
The researchers used high-resolution eye-tracking methodology and presented a set of well-established oculomotor tasks that trigger automatic eye behavior. They found the glazed stare was accompanied by objectively measurable changes in automatic, reflexive eye behavior that could not be imitated by non-hypnotized participants.
Watch the subject go in and out of hypnosis here:
As The Daily Mail reports, skeptics to a true hypnotic state believe that the hypnotist is just tricking the subject into seeing images that don’t exist even while their mind remains conscious.
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Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:09amI want to be hypnotized into a country where the people are truely free. LIBERTY
Report Post »Ham
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:48pmThe OWS idiots are all under hypnosis .
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:40pmDon’t look at her eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »MrHoggLegg
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:28pmI can only comment on my own experience with hypnosis ✯ In 1986 I and my wife was hypnotized to quit smoking ✯ I have never had the urge to smoke again ✯ The doctor had implanted a suggestion to recite a small one line rhyme ten times on my fingers ✯ One day while riding in the car while my wife was driving ✯ I realized that I was counting on my fingers ✯ I looked at my wife and said I don’t need to do that any longer ✯ And from that day on I have never counted on my fingers to get over the urge to smoke ✯ Oh ✯ And my wife ✯ Nope ✯ Didn’t work ✯ She still smokes! ✯ However I have promised to not blow smoke in her face if she would quit smoking!
Report Post »MUSE_FENDERTAMA
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:48amSeems pretty cool. I like it when doctors actually research stuff like this because if not being useful and entertaining in itself, it may unlock things unknown about the brain and psychology.
Its great that you have a doctor doing this instead of Mama Juju down in the bajou practicing some voodoo magic dangerously.
Doctors should research this so fields like hypnosis, advanced mind-expanding drugs (idk, maybe they were right about LSD like in the ’50s), etc., will be a science instead of medical taboo.
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 3:15amThat must be one of the 7 extra States that Barack Obamao vistited during the campaign.
Hmm lets think of others.
State of Confusion
State of Delirium
State of Intoxification
State of Ignorance
State of Unconsciousness
Help me out, this is fun.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:38pmEven people who have been hypnotized are not always aware that they were hypnotized. When I was in college a psychology professor held a demonstration on hypnotism. He put several people under, asked them a few questions and so on, but while he was bringing them back out the told them they would remember everything that happened while they were hypnotized. They all remembered what they did and what they were asked and most seemed to think they were never hypnotized.
Of course they had a difficult time explaining why they could remember the license plate from their parents’ car when they were in the first grade.
Report Post »LearnFromTheGiants
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:33pmHypnosis is a great tool for by-passing the conscious mind and dealing directly with the subconscious mind. You can re-train your brain to do more of what you should be doing to live a better life. Look at the Victoria Gallagher link on the “Master Teachers” page of LearnFromTheGiants dot com.
Report Post »a_lady_patriot
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:25pmObama uses hypnotic techniques – short phrases, repeated words, rhythmic speech…those who are suseptible to his message allow themselves to swoon over him. They do not want to wake up..
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:51pmHypnosis is DANGEROUS! It is real and think about this… basically hypnosis is changing the software that filters thoughts. You know how often software malfunctions…do you really want that happening in your mind?!! I read a great piece by a hypnotist that described how bad things can get. In his example a client wanted to stop smoking…. but smoking was the clients coping method for dealing with stress and since the hypnotist just took away the smoking thoughts and accompanying actions, the client had no learned way to deal with stress and as a result had a nervous breakdown (can you say computer re-boot!!)…
It is arrogant for men to think they are wise enough to start messing with mind programming when they can’t even get machine programming down without problems.
Also, the mind or brain basically the control panel for the body and I believe that is what demon possession is all about… an outside mind assumes control of the hosts brain. I believe God gives us a choice and if we desire we can let others control us…
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE HYPNOTIZED! EVER!
Report Post »lorgrom
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:43pmThere is a field of psychiatry called hypnotherapy in which trained and certified therapists who are also formally trained and certified in clinical hypnosis, uses hypnosis in conjunction with normal therapy to help people.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:46amPeople are hypnotized every day whenever they turn on their television or open up their internet browser. Advertisements are, at the very least, closely related to hypnotism in that they are designed to bypass your conscious mind with the goal of altering your behavior.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:43pmSoftware doesn’t “malfunction”. Software writers improperly code software, and then it does exactly what they told the software to do. In the case of a “bug”, the software is simply doing something that isn’t useful, but it didn’t “malfunction”. It did exactly what it was written to do.
There’s no magic in software.
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:08amBullpucky! All that proves is she’s good at staring!
Report Post »1389AD
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:57pmThat’s what I think.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:43pmSo we are supposed to believe that hypnotized people don’t blink?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:38amour sheriff‘s dept had to use hypno to recreate an accident scene and we actually saw the subjects ’go under’ and it was definitely noticeable immediately. not weird stuff, just blank eyed and relaxed.
Report Post »hineni
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:43pmI often found myself inexplicably drawn to inane commercials on tv and had to deliberately break eye contact very often. I’m sure the use of subliminal messages occurs in video ads on television and I doubt the current administration would oppose its use for its own benefit. For this reason, I stopped watching television.
Report Post »lorgrom
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 4:47pmYou were experiencing a form of artificial hypnosis. Hypnosis happens when a persons sensory input is overloaded. Most people experience hypnosis several times every day and don’t even realize it. Every time you catch yourself day dreaming while driving, watching a show or reading a book where you get the sensation of actually being there, etc are all forms of hypnosis everyone experiences. Why do you think all the tv ads, high graphic computer games, etc get people addicted? Yep, it’s from manipulated hypnosis.
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