Re: Blind Myth Hypnosis
Hypnosis has a long history outside Psychology, where its more of a niche specialization. Flipping through psychology association memberships i've come across all sorts of people who practice it, Hawaiian Witch Doctors, Past Life Regressionists, New Age Health types who peddle stop smoking aids and quality of life, stage magicians etc. So, grain of salt and all that.
As for highened succeptability, I mean if a sighted person were to close their eye's then they would be reducing the amount of sensory input, which could potentially make them more succeptable. But for a blind person who processes sensory information differently I doubt that would result in any greater suceptability, maybe if they were recently blind perhaps, but generally unlikely. Suceptability or inducing a hypnotic state can involve any number of senses, some hypnotists for example use things like physical objects for blind people when inducing a trance state, specifically because it gives them something to focus on. Other's work with mental visualization techniques, but in some cases that doesn't work either, if anyone recalls my topic on Aphantasia, or the inability for some people to visualize things in their mind. Inducing states like these should always be taken on a case by case basis.
Things like this are irritating not just because their misleading, but that they represent a form of cognitive bias or logical fallacy, and i've heard all kinds of strange things people associate or conflate together. It might seem benign, but put into stressful or authoritative decision making situations it can result in serious harm.
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