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posthypnotic suggestion

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/ ˌpəʊsthɪpˈnɒtɪk /

noun

  1. a suggestion made to the subject while in a hypnotic trance, to be acted upon at some time after emerging from the trance

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He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke."

From Time Magazine Archive

The unconscious mind is a wonderfully accurate timekeeper, as posthypnotic suggestion demonstrates.

From Time Magazine Archive

We know that the easiest way to achieve self-hypnosis is to be hypnotized and given a posthypnotic suggestion that you will respond to hypnosis by a key word, phrase or gesture.

From A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Powers, Melvin

Using this technique, with each subject carrying out a posthypnotic suggestion, intensifies the responses of other subjects.

From A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Powers, Melvin

The phenomenon of posthypnotic suggestion seems to indicate that this may be the case.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel