All 8 Uses of
hypnotize
in
The Martian Chronicles
- This is the most incredible example of sensual hallucination and hypnotic suggestion I've ever encountered.
Chpt 4 *hypnotic = related to a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility
- Hypnosis.†
Chpt 4
- Then by some vast crowd hypnosis I'd convince everyone in a town this size that this really was Earth, not Mars at all.†
Chpt 6
- She and all the others in this town are the patients of the greatest experiment in migration and hypnosis you will ever lay eyes on in your life.†
Chpt 6
- Telepathy, hypnosis, memory, and imagination.†
Chpt 6
- Suppose all of these houses aren't real at all, this bed not real, but only figments of my own imagination, given substance by telepathy and hypnosis through the Martians, thought Captain John Black.†
Chpt 6
- And suppose those two people in the next room, asleep, are not my mother and father at all, But two Martians, incredibly brilliant, with the ability to keep me under this dreaming hypnosis all of the time.†
Chpt 6
- His face held an expression of one awakening from hypnosis, from a dream.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(hypnotize as in: hypnotized to try to remember) to put someone into a state of hypnosis (a trance-like state of focused concentration and heightened suggestibility)
(Heightened suggestibility means that the hypnotized person is more inclined to accept and act on suggestions of the hypnotist.)