Pressroom Only gullible, uneducated, or less intelligent people can be hypnotized. There is no relation between the capacity to be hypnotized and gullibility, education, or intelligence. In order to be hypnotized, people must be willing and active participants. Hypnosis is a state of unconsciousness or sleep. Hypnosis is a state of altered consciousness, much like any activity in which the person's concentration is narrowly focused, such as meditation.
Clients are aware of sounds, smells, and other sensory stimuli as well as where they are.
You can be forced to act against your will or contrary to your morals or may reveal private information. Hypnosis is not a form of mind control or brainwashing. Clients are in full control throughout hypnosis and will not be receptive to suggestions that contradict their values. Everyone, without fail, comes out of a hypnotic state. If a person were to refuse to emerge, he or she would eventually fall asleep and upon waking would no longer be hypnotized.