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Should you own or have access to a tape recorder, I would suggest recording an induction of hypnosis and playing it back to yourself in this manner as though you were hypnotizing someone else.

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

Dauntrey asked, indulgently, in a dreaming voice, as if her love and the force of her fierce vitality were hypnotizing him.

From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone

Soames gripped the counter hard, staring at the newly arrived cocktail as though it were hypnotizing him.

From The Yellow Claw by Rohmer, Sax