Have you ever been able to taste words or smell sounds? Do you always see words in their own specific color? Well, if the answer’s yes, you might have synaesthesia. If you have no idea what I’m ...

What hypnosis is—and isn’t. Hypnosis is an interactional process between two people that often creates fascinating shifts in perception and behavior. Such changes are often highly compelling: Hypnotic ...

If you could resolve your school-age or teenage child's anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, bedwetting, or other health issues with a treatment that has no side effects, would you use it? Most people ...

Dude, where’s my necklace? One young woman on Reddit recounts the time she was hypnotized on a family cruise at the age of 17. “From what I have been told, I was very susceptible (easy to hypnotize).

A strange mystic swings a pocket watch back and forth, repeating the phrase "You're getting sleepy, very sleepy," giving them absolute command over their subject. That's not how hypnotism really works ...

Hypnosis has been around for centuries. The earliest references to hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. In Greek, the word “Hypnos” refers to the god of sleep. As time went on and into the ...