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This document details experiments involving hypnotic induction, testing for trance depth, and post-hypnotic suggestions, including subjects taking photographs and making telephone calls while under hypnosis, with subsequent tests for amnesia.
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Ask the archive about this →---------------------:-------------- ' To: File Subject: SI and H Experimentation, 9 February 19)4. On SI and H experime~tation and 13, .bYothessr:~ Hiss pre- · ·. Since this was·~ first session, she was a::;ked ' merely to -observe and n~~t, to work in an::r of the testint:;, The first inductj on was a regular sloH indue tion vli th all partici pating. Second induction also was a reGular slo'..; type and durinc this trance some tests for depth were tried. A post-hypnotic was g±ven to insure rapid induction for the follm•ing test a · ·.accomplished in mat. tcr of. s.econds.. During this tes '(,moved all subjects exce~ut of the room 1 ,>_- into the laboratory whe~e ~ll Lhe subjects, under hypnosis, ,. r; how to talce pictures _G hgun att.achment on the Contax camera. Thereafter, urned the .subjects to the Operations Room c:md e camera and v;ith only very slight assistance posed the other ::;ubjects ; \ : ' ~ ... !· ; .-'' and tool.;: a nun1ber of flash phot f them. D~~ entire . \ . ·i . bj r complete hy')~nosis. ....... and ·,1 for part of the time observed the -\·my Upon completion of the the ht out and tests .,. t - ad complete recalled the entire and a somm.;hat .VaGue F'ollo;.ri.ng the above, another rapid induction ;.ras run on all persons nnd various tests, movements ••ere carried out. pre~;ent Some subjects Here moved around the buildiuc aud ot.bers ;.;ere told _to ma\e telephone calls \vhich in turn vJet·e ansHered by other subjects, oper sis. Te::.;ts uere made ror amnesia and ·- !·:iss tol:,al anmes~activHies. His; amnesia and l'li---again apparently ~- l had ' .. '.. t' : The session adjourned at, about 8 :]0, '. '' • .. ·~-·-.'·-•l•.i . ' - ... . '· '
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