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Hypnotic susceptibility—What is it?

Accurate testing of ‘suggestibility’, ‘hypnotic suggestibility’ and ‘hypnotizability’ is an issue fundamental to hypnosis research and the practice of clinical hypnosis. A myriad different susceptibility scales have been developed, we have modified the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS) originally developed by (Barber & Wilson, 1978).

The test below only has 10 questions and will take you 4 minutes, (we’ve timed it).

Before you take the test

Sit down in a private and quiet space. Center yourself in yourself, close your eyes and and imagine yourself at peace in a sacred place you love. It may be a rock next to a brook, or a special perch on top of a mountain, or listening to waves crashing. Wherever it is, imagine that place, relax and breathe in and breathe out, slow your breathing down. Do this for a few moments, allow yourself the pleasure and luxury of letting yourself linger. Then, open your eyes and answer the following questions as accurately as you can.

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1. Imagine in your minds eye that one, two, then three dictionaries are being piled on the palm of your left hand. Compare this to what you would experience if three actual dictionaries were actually placed on your hand, what you experience is:*
2. Now think using the minds eye that you are in a car with your hand acting as an airplane wing, feel the wind pushing and pulling at your hand. Compare this imagination with the actual effect and feeling when you do this for real, what you experience is:*
3. In this third test imagine that a local anaesthetic had been injected into your mouth and now your whole mouth feels numb. Compare this to what you would experience if a local anesthetic was applied by your dentist, what you experience is:*
4. In this fourth test, think of drinking a glass of cool alkaline mountain water from a glacier in Finland. Compare this thought to what you would experience if you were actually drinking cool mountain water, what you experience is:*
5. In your minds eye imagine smelling and tasting a lemon. Compare this thought to what you would experience if you were actually smelling and tasting a lemon, what you experience is:*

6. Imagine listening to some hypnotic music with a subtle rhythmic beat, how similar is this experience to that of actually listening to this music?*
7. Imagine in your minds eye the sun shining on your head and making it feel hot, how similar is this experience to how you would actually feel if the sun was shining on your head, making it feel hot?*
8. Imagine time slowing down how similar is this experience to that of time actually slowing down?*
9. Imagine that you are a child at primary school feeling abandoned by your mother, how similar is this experience to that of actually being a child abandoned in primary school?*
10. Imaging yourself relaxing on a beautiful California beach, how similar is this experience to that of actually relaxing and being on a California beach?*
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Hypnotic susceptibility—What is it?

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