hypnosis
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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
Even then, though, the publication cautioned that “all leads developed through hypnosis should be verified with supporting physical or testimonial evidence … and investigative conclusion should not be based solely on hypnotically obtained information.”
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
His eyes seem to recede under his eyelids, as though entering a profound state of hypnosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
I’d probably get highway hypnosis, watching the snot run down all those little snotroads from their noses to their lips.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
In accordance with the mathematical hypnoses of his era, he studied these six transits.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
He realised more and more that the state was a conscious one, and that the losses of memory which followed on waking could always be restored in subsequent hypnoses.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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