It's funny when people think scepticism and hypnosis aren't compatible. Hypnosis isn't esoteric, there is clear science on it.

Yes, hypnosis feels like something that can't be true, but that's precisely why it's so exciting to me: It works, because brains are amazing and weird!

Sure, of course there are quacks who will tell you hypnosis can do things that it actually can't do. But that's not because of hypnosis, that's because of quacks!

Of course you might go "ah, hypnosis is just suggestion and psychological tricks", and yes, that's precisely what it is. You didn't debunk it, you just descibred it accurately.

It's about what amazing and fun things you can do with suggestibility and psychological tricks!

You could say the same thing about psychotherapy. "Ah, it's just suggestion and psychological tricks" – yes, exactly, it is - that's how it works.

If you think that you can debunk hypnosis by describing how it works… you have misunderstood the entire point.

Of course you can describe how it works, it's not magic!

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