It is not a new invention as this term hypnoidal might seem to indicate, but is as old as our history at least.
In recent years, this quiet, peaceful condition, with eyes closed, thorough relaxation and absolute attention, has sometimes been spoken of as the hypnoidal state.
Usually the hypnoidal condition, with suggestions in the waking state, is all that is necessary and ordinary suggestions will often effect the purpose completely.
Stroking seems to affect many people and to easily induce a sort of hypnoidal condition.
Even outside of the hypnoidal state, these cases are more suggestible than the general run of people.
In this hypnoidal state a strongly heightened suggestibility exists and trivial external causes give daydreams their direction.
In such cases, the subject should be allowed to sink into what Boris Sidis calls "hypnoidal sleep" by being made to listen to some continuous noise in a partly darkened room, all the while thinking of the "dream scrap.
Or, again, is suggestion in the waking-state equivalent to suggestion in hypnoidal states?
Frank himself adds: "How can meditation upon the dreams of youth in itself lead to the discharge of the stored-up anxiety, whether in hypnoidal states or under any other conditions?
You will ask why I cling to the use of hypnotism; or rather of hypnoidal states.
It was a light fragmentary sleep, that moves in and out of some strange hypnoidalstate where the lower consciousness and the normal consciousness wrestle for the control of reason.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypnoidal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
