Abstract
Abstract Ten young men in excellent physical condition and trained to meet specified criteria of trance depth (including ability to experience vivid visual and auditory hallucinations, to move about skillfully and naturally in the trance state, to carry out posthypnotic suggestions and, as the basic criterion, to undergo spontaneous posthypnotic amnesia) performed a standardized large-muscle exercise to exhaustion. The exercise: at set cadence pressing a 47-pound barbell from a supine position on a narrow bench. Performance was after receiving hypnotic suggestions in four conditions: (A) stereotyped suggestions in trance, performance in hypnosis; (B) pep-talk suggestions (urgent but not hysterical) in trance, performance in hypnosis; (C) suggestions in the trance to be activated post-hypnotically by signal during exercise; and (D) posthypnotic failure suggestions to reduce performance out of hypnosis. The subjects had no conscious awareness of what, if any, suggestions were given to them in any of the con...
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