Not likely.Almost all traumatic events ARE remembered, and quite clearly.
Electrical brain activity in relaxed or hypnotic states indicates that hypnosis is no more of a special state of consciousness than it is a social role playing. Patients show a response to hypnosis out of the expectation that it will work, or that they should be acting a certain way. They give the hypnotist the authority to suggest things to them, then they follow them of their own volition.
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Electrical brain activity in relaxed or hypnotic states indicates that hypnosis is no more of a special state of consciousness than it is a social role playing. Patients show a response to hypnosis out of the expectation that it will work, or that they should be acting a certain way. They give the hypnotist the authority to suggest things to them, then they follow them of their own volition.