Hypnosis is a method used to place an individual into a state involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
Psychologists have observed that the "deeper" the individual is "hypnotised", the more likely a particular characteristic is to appear, and the greater extent to which it is manifested. Some of these characteristics include: "dissociation"; "detachment"; "suggestibility", "ideosensory activity"; "catalepsy"; "ideomotor responsiveness"; "age regression"; "revivification"; "hypermnesia"; "automatic or suggested amnesia"; "posthypnotic responses"; "hypnotic analgesia and anesthesia"; "glove anesthesia"; "somnambulism"; "automatic writing"; "time distortion"; "release of inhibitions"; "change in capacity for volitional activity"; "trance logic"; and "effortless imagination".
Due to this, hypnosis is sometimes used in therapy to retrieve a memory an individual has forgotten due to time or amnesia, although this method is controversial. Nevertheless, it has been proven that under the influence of hypnosis a person's consciousness focused inward, which, similar to meditation, lowers blood pressure and pulse sequence, and also stimulates the immune system and influences brain waves. The latter can also lead to the person being able to remember things that they has long forgotten.
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- Within the manga series, hypnosis exists in different forms; for Devils like Lilith, this is an innate ability that they can use with finger movements in front of their victims faces, while for Nightmares like Rem, hypnosis is a learned ability that they can only perform by using aids such as pendulums.
- While Lesser Devils possess natural hypnosis abilities, Lilith needed a pendulum as assistance to put Centorea into a trance to induced her a daydream in Chapter 91, possibly because inducing a dream is a different form of hypnosis than simply giving someone instructions, as Lilith did with Centorea and Kimihito in Chapter 21 and Chapter 40.
- Although Centorea has usually a extremely high willpower, having even been able to withstand the effects of the full moon for a few moments in Chapter 6, she ironically appears to be very susceptible to hypnosis, as seen in her encounters with Lilith and Rem. This is even highlighted in Chapter 69 when Centorea initially thought that it would unlikely that Rem could get her to sleep with hypnosis since Centaurs have a light sleep and are notoriously strong-willed (she mentions the latter only in the official translation), but just one pendulum swing from Rem was enough to put Centorea into sleep several times.
- Centaur Girls Hot to Trot could imply that it's not an isolated case, given that Alusia Van Dalsia, a Lightweight Centaur, was also just as prone to falling under hypnosis, although in this regard it could also be noted that it was maybe due to the combination of Rem's hypnosis and the sleep-inducing effect of Meamil's warmed milk.
- While a hypnosis caused by a Devil and the resulting daydreams usually do not have major effects, Centorea, after being hypnotized by Lilith in Chapter 91, gained the ability to seemingly produce breast milk at will at any time. It is implied that this was because Centorea, under the hypnosis, believed she was the mother of a baby, which caused her mammary glands to start producing breast milk, a effect that persisted even after the hypnosis wore off. Another thing was that Papi, for reasons currently unknown, didn't return to normal when the hypnosis on Centorea, Miia, and Mero wore off, so that the Harpy still behaved like a baby in Chapter 92. In both cases even Lilith herself was surprised by this effects, which possibly implies that hypnosis caused by a Devil can sometimes be unpredictable in regard of its potential effects.