The Nature of Consciousness Characterized by Means of Hypnosis
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal March 25, 2026 Edoardo Casiglia, Erik Gadotti
Consciousness can be described as an internal representational reality that each individual experiences and creates. Hypnosis acts precisely on this representational reality, producing profound effects across all its dimensions because mental representations have a receptor basis. The consequence is that hypnosis can act on the receptor system, thereby affecting representations. Although strong correlations are known between the central nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, and a person's representational world, the precise nature of these correlations and how hypnosis works remain unknown. Similarly, while individual receptor systems are known, their mutual interrelationships are much less understood.