Jay Shaw argues hypnosis isn't a stage trick but something happening constantly. Your brain forms automatic responses to cues: you stop at red lights, say bless you after sneezes, react to a bell. Most of daily life runs on these unconscious suggestions.
out. You always wanted to be hypnotized. That's because you always— you've been getting hypnotized your whole life, your whole entire life. You always are responding to hypnotic suggestions. Every time you stop at a red light, you just responded to a post-hypnotic suggestion. When somebody sneezes and you say bless you without thinking about it, you just respond to a post-hypnotic suggestion. But think about it, those are what we call cues. It's so many cues in your life that you're already trained to associate a behavior to. How is every time I ring this bell, you'll quack like a duck, any different than every time this light turn green, you'll stop? Every time somebody sneeze, you'll say bless you. Every time this thing ring and you pick it up.
