研究稱人確實能被催眠

Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Aalto in Finland and Sweden’s University of Skövde, have found evidence for the hypnotic state by studying a volunteer’s glazed staring eyes。

The study findings were published in journal PLoS ONE, and came about from observing a highly hypnotisable person, who could be hypnotised and dehypnotised by just using a one-word cue。

This meant the change between hypnotic state and normal state could be varied in seconds。

They found that the glazed stare was accompanied by objectively measurable changes in automatic, reflexive eye behaviour that could not be imitated by non-hypnotised participants。

Significantly, in the field of hypnosis research this result means that hypnosis can no longer be regarded as mental imagery that takes place during a totally normal waking state of consciousness。

The researchers believe that it may be the first evidence of the existence of a conscious state in humans that has previously not been scientifically confirmed。據英國《每日郵報》10月26日報道，來自芬蘭圖爾庫大學和阿爾託大學，以及瑞士舍夫德大學的研究人員通過研究一位志願者目不轉睛的呆滯目光(指被催眠後)後，發現了催眠狀態存在的證據。

該研究觀察了一位很容易進入“催眠狀態”的志願者。只需一個單詞的提示，他就能進入或脫離催眠狀態。研究結果發表在了《科學公共圖書館綜合版》上。

這意味着催眠狀態和非催眠狀態在短時間內就能轉換。

他們發現這種目不轉睛的呆滯目光伴隨着客觀變化而變化，這些變化是眼球自動的、反射性的行爲，非催眠狀態下的人無法模仿。

值得注意的是，在催眠的研究領域，這一結果意味着催眠不再被視爲是在意識完全清醒的狀態下發生的心理意向。

研究人員認爲，該結果可能首次提供了一個證據——人類具有一種之前未被科學證實過的意識形態。