Hypnosis has been around for centuries. The earliest references to hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. In Greek, the word “Hypnos” refers to the god of sleep. As time went on and into the ...

Group of eight people under the influence of a rotary mirror apparatus (after Luys), from ‘Hypnotism and the New Witchcraft’ by E.A. Hart (1893) (all images ...

Most people see hypnosis as a stage act where the performer brings audience members to the stage, puts them in a hypnotic trance, and manipulates them to execute silly acts in order to entertain the ...

Everyone who falls asleep must first enter a state of hypnosis. Every person experiences hypnosis, and stage hypnotist Brian Imbus, who has performed at True Bruin Welcome Week for the past 10 years, ...

You've probably either attended or heard about a stage hypnosis show during which seemingly "normal" people do completely ridiculous things in front of a group of strangers. And like most people, this ...

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 ...