Author: Michael G Millett, PhD

Most people when asked if they have ever been hypnotized reply “No”, and are mistaken. Everyone has, perhaps quite frequently, been in a hypnotic state without realising it. In childhood, daydreaming which is so real to the child that the dream or imagined situation takes the place of ordinary reality, is essentially self-hypnosis. In adult life, many people still daydream occasionally, and most people will have episodes of absent-mindedness or abstraction at times, in which they are, as we say, “in a world of their own”. For instance, when driving down a familiar road, you may suddenly realist that...