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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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"I believe that it can happen in theory and I think it's definitely worth investing the time of evidence and research into hypnosis generally."

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

During her hypnosis, the police asked her if one of the men she had seen had short, shaved hair.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

Some of the messages mentioned hypnosis sessions and offered to tell Amelie her "memories", prosecutor Nadia Silver said.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Audiences had to liberate a cadre of musicians from hypnosis and do so by concocting scenarios in which the club’s proprietor was continually forced to leave the room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

Suppose all of these houses aren’t real at all, this bed not real, but only figments of my own imagination, given substance by telepathy and hypnosis through the Martians, thought Captain John Black.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury