Signs of hypnosis - Fascination - CataL-psy - Lethargy - Exaltation of the senses - Muscular contortions - Singing and speaking - Speaking in foreign languages - At the prize fight - Hunting and fishing - Laughing and crying - Make me a child again - Aged and infirm - Becoming animals - A trip to heaven - Up in a balloon.

Subjects who are being brought into a condition of hypnosis will usually give physical evidence of their being under control. At first the pupils of the eyes will be noticeably contracted, and as the influence becomes intensified they gradually dilate and become very large, and in the profound stages the eyeballs will roll upward, as may be readily seen by lifting the eyelids. If, when in the somnambulistic state, the subject should be required to open his eyes, the eyeballs will usually assume their natural position.

Most subjects, as they fall into the hypnotic state, will show a peculiar smile about the mouth, which by many is mistaken as an evidence of assumed subjection, When slumber results from suggestion, the eyelids are apt to quiver slightly just as they are closing, and the breathing becomes deeper and regular.

Fascination

After the subject has been placed in the somnambulistic state by the ordinary method, mentioned elsewhere, some object, a cane, for instance, may be used to fascinate. Attention is called to it in some such manner os follows:

"Look at the head of this cane; fix your eyes upon it, and keep looking at it. Now your eyes are fastened to it, and you can't stop looking at it until I tell you to do so."

The subject will rivet his eyes upon the head of the cane, and if near enough he will seem to be glued to it, and wherever the cane is moved he will follow. He will run after it, jump in the air to reach it, lie on the floor to be near it, and keep his eyes upon it regardless of all surroundings and all dangers.

The nose of the subject may be mentally fastened to an object in the same manner. When this experiment is performed it is best not to bring the object too close to the eyes, on account of the possibility of eye strain. Care must also be taken to incur no risks from falls or other injuries, as the fascinated subject is entirely oblivious of everything except the object that fascinates him.