10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Proves Hypnosis Is Real

5. Sleight Of Mouth Is Totally A Thing

Everybody knows about the idea of sleight of hand - the magician's trick that is the underpinning of most great illusions, where a card/dove/long line of colourful handkerchiefs is expertly concealed through some shifty movements, possibly also be distracting you with something shiny, explosive or rabbit-shaped.

Sleight of mouth is totally a thing too, though. It's part of something called "covert hypnosis," which is essentially the polar opposite of your fancy, bombastic stage hypnosis: instead of being complicit and aware of being hypnotised, somebody suggests something to you without even noticing.

It's like another person using subliminal imagery on you, basically, by muttering some operant phrase when you're in a suitably suggestible state. Covert hypnotists tweak your mind subconsciously, without you even realising it.

It's like the Inception thing of tricking people into having an idea themselves, but nudging them towards it. Except not in their dreams.