Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
No hypnosis control group was included in our study and hypnotic induction of ' blindness ' has not, to our knowledge, been reported.
Many commentators attest to the hypnotic cross-gender and cross-age appeal of postcard images.
People who are led to do odd actions through post-hypnotic suggestion, for example, often confabulate reasons for their action.
In the case of hypnotic involuntariness, the person has a very clear and well-rehearsed idea of the upcoming action.
Hypnotic suggestibility scales are not "indications of the success of the induction" (p. 282).
Certainly it is true that hypnotic subjects often feel that they have lost control over their percepts, memories, and behaviors.
Even posthypnotic suggestion, the classical exemplar of hypnotic automaticity, lacks the qualities associated with the technical definition of automaticity.
The singing seems hypnotic, and the round, as rounds are wont to do, does not yet seem ready to end.
Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences "absorption"!, a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.
Benzodiazepines are frequently used as a hypnotic agent.
See all examples of hypnotic
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.