Originally Posted by
Vir Sapiens
As a general rule hypnosis only works if you are willing to be hypnotized and can only make you do or see something you are already inclined to do or see, so I would say that would be a no on the arm simply because it is too far beyond the norm of what your brain knows to be true.
The efficacy of hypnosis in general has been something of a hot topic amongst psychologists for quite some time. I think the best summation of it was given by Mr. George Joseph Kresge Jr., better known as the Amazing Kreskin, who once said "I am convinced that no person under 'hypnosis' has ever been asleep unless sent to that non-trance happy state by the lullaby drone of the guide. I am convinced that there is no such thing as a specific state, condition, trance--call it anything with any twist of semantics--that can be considered 'hypnosis'."
I am inclined to agree with him on this particular topic. I think that any success with hypnosis can be put down to the power of self suggestion as opposed to any trance state or implanted suggestion in the mind. that is to say whenever you decide to undergo hypnosis for whatever reaosn you are already willing to solve the problem and you believe that hypnosis will help. It is this belief that causes the change, not hypnosis.