Hypnosis

This chapter definitely caught my attention and interest. A trance-like state that resembles sleep but which is induced by a hypnotist whose suggestions are readily accepted by their subject. Some supposed hypnotic indicators and subjective changes in mental state can be achieved without relaxation or a lengthy induction by means of simple suggestion or waking hypnosis, a fact that increases the controversy and the misunderstandings which exist around hypnosis and the hypnotic state.

I'm going to be honest. I, for some reason, cannot be hypnotized. One time, in high school, we had a hypnotist come into the auditorium, and a bunch of us went down to be hypnotized. For me, with the crowd laughing and making loud shouting noises. I couldn't hear the guy's instructions, and had to leave the floor. I have yet to be hypnotized, but I am open to try again some day.