
If someone has a poor sleeping environment, it can lead to difficulties with sleeping. All I can suggest around those is that if your subject has a medical condition causing their insomnia, don’t use hypnosis to help them sleep unless a doctor says it’s ok first. In this article I’ll leave medical conditions to one side, because I’m not a doctor. There are four classes of things that can cause insomnia: Medical conditions, poor sleeping environment, bad habits during the day, and uncontrolled thoughts when we want to sleep. In order to do that, we need to have some basic understandings of what causes insomnia in the first place. How does insomnia work?Īssuming there’s no underlying medical condition, it’s generally very safe to hypnotize someone to sleep. In practical terms, they’re probably not going to ask unless they’re already comfortable with it. This will depend on where you are in the world and the nature of your relationship with them. If things are medically ok, the next question to ask is whether it is socially acceptable for you to be around that person when they’re sleeping. Because they’re a friend, I’m probably going to be talking to them in the near future anyway so I can check up on them to see how it went. So what I usually do if someone wants me to hypnotize them to sleep is casually mention that if they continue to have trouble sleeping, they really should see a doctor to make sure there’s not something else going on. Customers tend to want to have something done to help overcome their insomnia rather than just be sent to sleep. Usually when someone wants to be hypnotized to sleep, they are a friend in a different timezone. Now the truth is that people have trouble sleeping all the time for no reason other than they can’t stop thinking, or something similar. Many life-threatening conditions are easily treated if they are caught early enough, so seeking medical advice is important whenever we experience health anomalies.

This in turn can lead to them not seeking medical help when they need it. In short: If the reason they can’t sleep is that something has gone physically wrong with their body, while hypnosis might send them to sleep, it may also mask symptoms.

The very first thing to consider with any sleep-related hypnosis is whether there could be some medical condition inhibiting their sleep.Īs a rule, it’s a bad idea to use hypnosis to mask any medical symptoms without first having a doctor say it’s ok to do so. When should you hypnotize someone to sleep?
Hypnotize to sleep how to#
In this article, we’ll go over the important things to consider when helping someone to sleep, how to do it, and how to help them structure their days to aid sleep. So how do you hypnotize someone to sleep? Humans are predisposed to sleep when we’re tired, so all you need to do is help your subject to clear their thoughts, then send them down a hypnotic pathway designed to induce sleep.

With insomnia being as common as it is these days, this is a very useful skill to have. One of the superpowers you get to have as a hypnotist is the ability to hypnotize people to sleep.
