Responding to ‘Hypnotic’ Suggestions: An Introspective Report

Synaesthesia is a neurological condition in which people make unusual associations between various sensations. This chapter investigates conceptually whether alleged non-developmental (i.e. artificial) forms of synaesthesia could be counted as genuine synaesthetic experiences. It focuses in particular on post-hypnotic suggestions, drug habits, flavor perception, and use of sensory substitution devices. It discusses a number of criteria that have been taken as definitional of synaesthesia; namely, inducer-concurrent pairing, idiosyncrasy, consistency over time, and automaticity of the process, and subsequently investigates whether those alleged non-developmental cases could fulfill these criteria. Although the response provided here is negative, as each of the cases fail to fulfill one or several of the criteria, the comparisons between these cases and congenital synaesthesia prove useful to highlight key differences between different kinds of multisensory experiences.

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Laser-Induced Pain-Related Brain Potentials and Sensory Pain Ratings in High and low Hypnotizable Subjects During Hypnotic Suggestions of Relaxation, Issociated Imagery, Focused Analgesia, and Placebo

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis ◽

10.1080/00207149408409341 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 56-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Robert Zachariae ◽

Peter Bjerring

Keyword(s):

Brain Potentials ◽

Pain Ratings ◽

Hypnotic Suggestions

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EXPERIENCED INVOLUNTARINESS AND RESPONSE TO HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1977.tb38173.x ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 296 (1 Conceptual an) ◽

pp. 208-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Nicholas P. Spanos ◽

Steven M. Rivers ◽

Stewart Ross

Keyword(s):

Hypnotic Suggestions

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THE EFFECTS OF HYPNOSIS AND HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS ON THE MISMATCH NEGATIVITY IN HIGHLY HYPNOTIZABLE SUBJECTS

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis ◽

10.1080/00207144.2019.1580966 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 192-216

Author(s):

Seppo Hiltunen ◽

Maarit Virta ◽

Sakari Kallio ◽

Petri Paavilainen

Keyword(s):

Mismatch Negativity ◽

Hypnotic Suggestions

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Neurophenomenology of Out-of-Body experiences induced by hypnotic suggestions

10.31234/osf.io/6a4hc ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Enrico Facco ◽

Edoardo Casiglia ◽

Benedikt Emanuel Al Khafaji ◽

Francesco Finatti ◽

Gian Marco Duma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Positive Affect ◽

Multisensory Integration ◽

Spectral Power ◽

Gamma Band ◽

Altered State ◽

Brain Areas ◽

Body Experiences ◽

Gamma Band Activity ◽

Band Activity ◽

Hypnotic Suggestions

Inducing out-of-body experiences in hypnosis (H-OBEs) offers an almost unique opportunity to investigate them in a controlled condition.OBEs were induced as imaginative task in resting conditions (I-OBE) or in hypnosis (H-OBE) in 15 high hypnotizable subjects. A 32-channel EEG was recorded and the spectral power and imaginary coherence were calculated. At the end of each session, the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) was administered to check the phenomenological aspects of their experience.Significantly higher scores in the Altered State, Positive Affect, Altered Experience and Attention subdimensions of the PCI were reported in H-OBE than in I-OBE, which were associated to a significant decrease of power in beta and gamma band activity in right parieto-temporal derivations. Our result suggest that H-OBE may be an appealing model of “true” OBEs, including an alteration of multisensory integration in right parieto-temporal brain areas.

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Death as a Psychosomatic Condition: Prolegomena to a Longitudinal Study

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1970.27.3.953 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 953-954 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lawrence Casler

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Control Group ◽

Hypnotic Suggestions

A study has been undertaken to assess the effects of hypnotic suggestions for longevity. 50 volunteer college students are receiving suggestions that they will live to be at least 120 years old, without loss of physical or mental capacities. A control group, randomly selected from the same pool of volunteers, are receiving no such suggestions. An account of the results will appear in about 100 yr.

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