autohypnosis
noun
self-induced hypnosis or hypnotic state.
autohypnotic
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a word derived from
autohypnosis.
Example Sentences
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Warns Salter: "One must be careful not to misuse his autohypnotic ability to mask physical ailments which need a physician's care."
From Time Magazine Archive
He began to move his hands, swaying back and forth, muttering the autohypnotic formulas.
From The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson
Hypnotic or autohypnotic stigmata, and by stigmata here is meant bleeding from the hands, feet, and side, would be degeneracy of the mind and body in the natural order.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
So too the autohypnotic trance of the magician or shaman is regarded as due to his visit to distant regions or the nether world, of which he brings back an account.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
The work was slow and loud in the silent Park, but it lulled me into a sleepy reverie, an autohypnotic swing-bang-swing-bang timeless time.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
