Best evidence that hypnotism is real

摘要

YOU are feeling sleepy... or are you? In a stage hypnosis performance, ordinary people seem to become puppets, made to talk in silly accents, act like babies or do other embarrassing things. But have they genuinely lost command of their bodies, or are they just pretending? Now we have some of the best evidence yet that people who are hypnotised do feel like they are acting involuntarily. When estimating split-second timings, hypnotised people behaved as though their actions were outside their control, in ways that would have been difficult to fake.