10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Proves Hypnosis Is Real

1. The Placebo Effect Is Proven

Hypnosis and the placebo effect are "so heavily reliant upon the effects of suggestion and belief," said R Barker Bausell, "that it would be hard to imagine how a credible placebo control could ever be devised for a hypnotism study."

Which is to say that hypnosis and the placebo effect may very well be two sides of the same coin. And science is very much set on the existence of placebos "they just don't know why they work. Countless pharmaceutical studies have been done where people have been given tablets that do nothing, are told it will clear up some condition, and then it does it as well as the participants who get the actual medicine.

Sometimes the placebos even do better. In which case, who's to say hypnotism isn't just another spin on the placebo effect, something widely regarded by the world of science to exist? It's just as reliant on the person involved being suggestible, it's all about essentially tricking the mind into thinking a certain way... really, if you want to prove hypnosis is real, you just have to believe.