The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has called
it 'a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may be induced by another
person,' (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is still much about hypnosis that
is not understood. Because it resembles normal sleep, it was studied and was found that the
brain waves of hypnotized people are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than
anything else. Rather than a psychic or mystical idea, hypnosis is now looked upon as a
form of highly focused concentration in which outside influenc…
