How Hypnosis and Psychedelics Similarly and Differently Affect Conscious Experience

This discussion paper argues that hypnosis and psychedelic states share several experiential features but differ in duration, controllability, intensity, and longer-term effects.

This is a conceptual review comparing hypnosis and psychedelic contexts, citing overlapping predictors such as absorption and openness to experience and reported similarities in bodily, imagery, and transcendent experiences.

Because it is a comparative discussion rather than a controlled head-to-head study, the claims depend on prior literature and reported phenomenology instead of direct experimental testing.