Sleepingirl argues hypnosis can look like many different things to many different kinds of people. “It’s a real-deal treatment that should be given the same respect that a lot of other treatments we use that are sometimes less efficacious and more dangerous.” “If opiates affect certain regions of the brain like the dorsal anterior cingulate and some other brain regions, there’s no reason why we can’t use a different approach to produce similar effects in the brain that are real effects that reduce pain and anxiety and help people stop smoking,” Spiegel told Time. He underwent self-hypnosis to recover from shoulder surgery. It’s a powerful tool, one that Spiegel thinks could be used as an alternative to addictive painkillers. In other words, hypnosis changes how the mind processes information and suggestions on a neurological level. The dorsolateral prefontal cortex, which is connected to self-reflection, also diminishes in activity during clinical hypnosis, explaining why hypnotized subjects may be more susceptible to suggestion. Other parts of the brain also changed their behavior, essentially “inetensifying” the brain’s connection to the clinically hypnotized party’s body, Spiegel told Time magazine. In one study, hypnosis expert David Spiegel at the Stanford University School of Medicine observed a pre-determined “highly hypnotizable” group saw a drop in the brain’s dorsal anterior cingulate activity during hypnosis, letting those focus deeply on the exercise at hand. Science backs up clinical hypnosis as a neurological phenomenon, too. Meanwhile, clinical hypnosis describe the specific, medical experience of hypnosis as “an altered state of awareness, perception or consciousness that is used, by licensed and trained doctors or masters prepared individuals, for treating a psychological or physical problem,” according to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. “Especially within the kink community, we recognize that doing a ‘hypnosis scene’ does not necessarily include a trance state, and is more broadly referring to all sorts of mind-play techniques.” “It refers to both the activity as a whole (‘We are going to do some hypnosis’) and the altered/trance state that can occur within (‘I am going to put you into hypnosis’),” she told the Daily Dot. Hypno kink educator, podcaster, and author Sleepingirl stresses defining “hypnosis” is complicated in its own right. Like many other kink communities, the hypno kink world has its own lexicon with varying definitions.
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