Dr. Andrew Huberman

Their names can be differentiators as opposed to integrators.

When people say, I'm gonna hypnotize you, or you should try hypnosis, people are like, eh.

Like, yum, yuck, meh?

They're like, yuck.

So, by the way, does everyone here remember how you know if you're highly hypnotizable?

Do you know that the Spiegel eye roll test, it's not what teenagers do, David Spiegel and his father

psychiatrists discovered the clinical application of hypnosis.

It's a clinically approved tool.

There's brainstem neurons that cause elevations and alertness and focus, and they're associated with moving the eyes up.

There are brainstem neurons that close the eyelids and essentially drive the eyes down that are associated with parasympathetic states, which is why you go like this when you're tired.

You're out there, I'm sure.

if you are capable of keeping your eyes, your gaze upward and closing your eyelids, you score on a particular end of the so-called Spiegel eye roll test, which makes you highly hypnotizable because that state of hypnosis is one in which you're what alert, but very, very relaxed.

So if you go to Spiegel's laboratory, they're going to look at you and they say, look up at the ceiling.

and then close your eyelids.

And if you can still see the whites of, if they still see the whites of your eyes as your eyelids close, well then you're in the highly hypnotizable realm.

Kind of interesting, right?

There's all nervous system related.

And you can see this stuff is, this is like real clinical tools.

Okay, how do we stop ourselves from mindlessly scrolling on our phones?

Hard questions.