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Hypnosis and Sleep: the Control of Altered States
of Awareness
Frederick J. Evans, Ph.D.
In spite of some obvious phenomenological similarities between hypnosis and sleep,
they appear to be unrelated physiologically. Hypnosis and sleep may share control
mechanisms that may partly account for individual differences in the ability to experience
hypnosis and in the ease of falling asleep and maintaining voluntary control of sleep
processes. Relationships between hypnosis, napping sleep induced response to
suggestion, absorption and treatment outcome are discussed to highlight individual
differences in the ability to process and voluntarily control states of consciousness.
(Sleep and Hypnosis 1999;4:232-237)
| Keywords: sleep induced behavioral response, hypnosis, napping, control of sleep |
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