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In the movie, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), Arnold Schwarzenegger realizes that the life he believed was real
was merely a program which was loaded to his brain. However, he cannot differentiate between the real world and the dream
world.

The important truth indicated by hypnosis

One of the best examples of a world created with artificial stimuli is the technique of hypnosis. When a
person is hypnotized, he experiences extremely convincing events which are indistinguishable from reality.
The person under hypnosis sees pictures, people and various images, and hears, smells and tastes many

things, none of which exist in the room. Meanwhile, because of the experience, he becomes happy, upset,
excited, bored, worried or flustered. Moreover, the effect of the experience on the person under hypnosis
can be watched from outside physically. In very deep hypnotic trances, certain kinds of symptoms can be
observed in the hypnotized person, such as an increase in the pulse rate and blood pressure, redness of the

skin, high temperature, and the removal of an existing pain or ache. 17
In one hypnotic experiment, a hypnotic subject is told that he is in a hospital and that there is a dying
patient on the tenth floor of the hospital. He has been hypnotized into believing that if he rushes to the pa-
tient with the right medicine, the patient will be rescued. The subject, under the influence of hypnosis,

thinks he is rushing to the tenth floor. Meanwhile he gets out of breath and can't control it, due to a feeling
of being extremely tired. Then the subject is told that he is on the top floor, and succeeded in fetching the
medicine, and that he can lie on a comfortable bed. The subject then starts to relax. 18 Although the subject
experiences the locations and the atmospheres as if they were completely real, the places, people or events

as told to him do not exist.
In another experiment, a hypnotic subject in a normal room is told that he is in a Turkish bath and that
the bath is very hot. As a result, he starts to sweat. 19
This draws our attention to a very important point. In order for a person to sweat, some conditions

must exist. The reality that we come across in this instance of hypnosis is that the hypnotized person has
sweated, even though there is no physical factor which would cause him to sweat. This example shows
clearly that there is no physical necessity of physical existences of places or atmosphere to feel such an at-
mosphere or place. Similar effects can be created through artificial stimulants or hypnotic suggestion.

The British hypnotherapy specialist, Terence Watts, a member of many organizations including The
National Hypnotherapy Association, The National Psychotherapists Association, The Professional
Hypnotherapists Center, The Hypnotherapy Research Association, states in an article that during hypnosis,
some people who are recollecting a past event exhibit some physical changes related to the event. For ex-

ample, if there was an element of suffocation in the event remembered, a hypnotic subject might become
breathless while explaining the event under hypnosis and might even stop breathing for a while. Watts
stated that under hypnosis, even finger marks appeared on one of his patients where a slap on the face was
recalled. Watts also explains that this is not a mystery but a reaction to sense of pain in the body. 20

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