Can I be hypnotized without my knowledge
Yes, we can be in trance without realizing it. Our consciousness shifts onstantly, most of the time without any recognition on our part that anything s changing. Certainly we can drift in and out of absorption without realizing t, and a skillful hypnotist may well be able to perform an induction that doesn't seem at all like an induction. Some of the usual elements of hypnosis would be missing, such as the elaborate set of expectations that are normally provided by the patter of an induction....