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Hypnosis: Does It Really Work?

Science Vs

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How Do You Feel When You're Not Hypnotizable?

Philip Muskin is a professor of cognitive science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Amanda Barnier studies extremely hypnotizable people and writes about them in peer reviewed journals. She put one man under hypnosis and then gave him a rather remarkable suggestion. In a moment, I'm going to get you to look into a mirror and you're going to see a stranger, not yourself. And he said that the person he could see in the mirror was definitely not him.

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