Not sure exactly what you want to know here, but here are a few basic points:
Hypnotized people are not unconscious, rather they are fully awake and focused.
Brain scans don't show any signs of abnormal brain activity during hypnosis.
Some psychologists argue hypnotized people are just fulfilling the socially expected role for a hypnotized person.
Brain scans don't show any signs of abnormal brain activity during hypnosis.
That depends on what you consider "abnormal". The states appear to be the same kind of states that occur in "normal" functioning, but they appear out of the context that they normally appear in. For example, according to one study a person exposed to a painful stimulus and one acting out a hypnotic suggestion to feel pain show similar patterns of brain activation, but a person told to "imagine" feeling pain shows a different one.
In general, brain s...
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