Sleep And Hypnotic Trance—Are They The Same

Pavlov really believed that sleep and hypnosis were one and the same. Despite the hundreds and thousands of research papers and published studies and writings, it is still the most popular belief up to this day. In fact, the state of hypnotic trance more related and linked to the waking state, than for normal sleep. Let us compare sleep and hypnosis. 1. Reasoning-in a hypnotic trance, the person is perfectly capable of reasoning, but reasoning itself can be directional because of the proposed fixed set or instilled by the hypnotist. On the other hand, while sleeping, the typical justification normal function and capacity of the person who is off in the meantime.

2. Induction hypnosis could be achieved even without the proposal or mention of sleeping.Hypnotic trance is often caused by another person (usually the hypnotist), while the normal sleep is not caused by another person. 3. Brain Activity-Electro Encephalogram (EEG) which detects activity in the brain and the electrical impulses into the brain, show similar waves during the waking and the hypnotic state. On the contrary, the waves in the normal and physiological sleep quite different from the two states. 4. Somnambulism, in which the person performing some activities, or walking around asleep when there really is the deepest form or type of unconscious activities associated with a deep hypnotic trance and can not therefore be regarded as a sleep activity.

4. Reflexes tendons in knee-jerk when the tendon under the knee cap is gently rubbed or tapped with a percussion hammer, while the knee is bent and relax, there is a jerky forward movement of the legs due to the contracting of the muscles in the thigh. Those in the tendon reflexes are abolished or reduced in deep sleep, while these are present during hypnosis. The tendon reflexes are induced or brought out of the solid, but easy to tap particular tendons to flex or bend the corresponding muscles. This may indicate a normal neuro-muscular and neuro-spinal communication. 5. Suggestibility-in a state of hypnosis, the individual is very sensitive or easily influenced by suggestions.

On the other hand, the subject will not respond or be open to other light sensory stimulus or different proposals. 6. Muscle-muscles normally and usually become flaccid from impaired or diminished muscular tone and action when the person is in a normal sleep. On the other hand, most muscles, especially in the legs and arms are maintained and kept in a condition called tone stiffness. However, these muscles can be a close and almost got the state and made to relax entirely appropriate proposal under the State hypnotic trance. Therefore, it is a known event that people fall into a normal sleep after a long and extended auto-hypnotic treatment or a hypnotic session, it is actually a normal and natural phenomenon.

Although there are times that the hypnotic trance state can be described as a guided sleep is not the same as a normal and physiological sleep at all.