Before William James, there were two warring views on hypnosis. Everyone agreed that under hypnosis, people show abilities that they do not normally have, but argued that the real reason for these effects of hypnosis. Some researchers believed that these effects are created by the trance state that people fall into under hypnosis. Others were convinced that trance had nothing to do with it, and these amazing abilities appear in people as a result of suggestions from the hypnotist.
I am the first child in a young family of creative people, a year and three months later I had a brother. We lived with my family in Tula, first in an apartment, then moved to a private house, and later bought a house in the suburbs, where I spent my childhood and youth until I left my parents ' nest. My parents had a workshop right at home, so most of the time they were present at home, which allowed them to devote enough time to our upbringing during breaks in work.