Autohypnosis

In an act of autohypnosis, he was pushing the channel button on the remote, repeatedly working his way through the eight available stations. ❋ Paul Lindsay (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Anderson, Poul (2000)

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. ❋ Anderson, Poul (1983)

It was a form of autohypnosis well known to Plateau citizens of both social classes, differing from other forms only in that nearly anyone could fall into such a state by accident. ❋ Niven, Larry (1968)

\tab From then on he was letter-perfect in following orders of landing signal officers, obeying like a robot, emotions and judgment suppressed by a sort of autohypnosis. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)