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The behavior of a hysteric does not seem to be very much like the conduct of a person under hypnosis. Nor can a man suffering from a complex of inferiority be confused with one in a trance. Any one who has had but a single opportunity to witness a hypnotic session knows that a hypnotized person does not look like a man in the state of high suggestibility, such as one observes in the whims and passions of an excited mob or in the moods of a waking neurotic. It is customary to believe that people are most open to suggestion while they are wide awake. But a hypnotic, for all we see, does not seem to be wide awake. Rather, he looks as if he were asleep.These two sets of facts-the indubitable evidence, on the one hand, that hypnotized people are under the strong influence of the practician, to the point of obeying even nonsensical commands of his, and the apparent truth, on the other, that the subject is in the stage ranging in depth from mere drowsiness to stupor-led many learned observers to conclude that hypnosis is a paradoxical phenomenon in which the state of high mental suggestibility is combined with bodily sleep. At a first glance, hypnosis does resemble sleep.

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