Definition of "autohypnosis" []

• The act or process of hypnotizing oneself. (noun)
• A self-induced hypnotic state. (noun)

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• "In an act of autohypnosis, he was pushing the channel button on the remote, repeatedly working his way through the eight available stations."
• "All that booze and cocaine back in the day has made the I-Man forgetful, otherwise he'd recall how fantasy, distortion and plain autohypnosis informed most of the late President's discourse."
• "And for a while things went smoothly-as smoothly, at least, as they can go on a world of eager, energetic teddy bears with imaginations active to the point of autohypnosis."