I Must Have Been Dreaming!

One of the most frequent things that you will ever hear from people who have been hypnotized as part of a stage show is that it was as if they were in a dream, when they are brought out of the trance.

Nothing could be so far from the truth, in fact.

When you are under hypnosis, instead of sleeping, you are more fully alert than you are at just about any other time of your life.

And the key to effective hypnosis is concentration.

The idea of getting the subject to watch the swinging watch is concentration, to the exclusion of anything and everything else.

The dull hum of the hypnotist, the music playing softly, everything is set in just a way that tries to make you super concentrated on only one thing, which is, the voice of the hypnotist.

While many points of hypnotism are questioned, that which is generally agreed upon is that hypnotism relies on a relationship of some sort being made with your subconscious.

The only way that this subconscious state of your brain can take over your conscious thoughts and behaviors, you must concentrate in a way that very, very few people ever have to in their day to day lives.

It is this somewhat 'unnatural' concentration that will bring on the hypnotic trance, under which you are still fully aware of that which the hypnotist is instructing you to do.