E210 - Dr. David Spiegel: #1 Hypnotism Expert, “Wake Up From The Trance of Your Life”

<p>Dr. David Spiegel is the Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford, the co-founder of the hypnosis app Reveri, and one of the world&#39;s leading clinical researchers on hypnosis. He has worked with over 7,000 patients across 50 years, and in this conversation he opened with something I did not expect: he tested my hypnotizability live on camera. I scored a nine out of ten. What followed was one of the most genuinely surprising conversations about the mind I have had on this show.</p><p><br></p><p>What We Dive Into:</p><p>1. The self you walk around with is not a fixed structure. Dr. Spiegel calls it a convenient assumption, something the brain constructs to simplify experience. Hypnosis reveals this by demonstrating how quickly and completely a person can shift, often in a single session.</p><p>2. Memories are not neutral recordings. They are laid down and retrieved from brain regions that manage affect, which means the emotion and the memory are inseparable. Working with a memory hypnotically allows you to enter it, update its emotional meaning, and change how it lives in you.</p><p>3. The same capacity that lets a child survive abuse by mentally leaving their body can, in adulthood, become a habitual distance from experience. Understanding whether your detachment is a protective skill or an old survival pattern still running is one of the more honest questions this conversation surfaces.</p><p><br></p><p>Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself.</p><p>https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com</p><p><br></p><p>✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:</p><p>https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself</p><p>Try LMNT &amp; get a free sample pack </p><p><br></p><p>https://www.timeline.com/KNOWTHYSELF </p><p>Save 20% off your Mitopure® Gummies</p><p>___________</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>01:52 What Hypnosis Actually Is</p><p>05:34 The Malleability of Personality and Self</p><p>07:01 How Trauma Gets Stored in the Body and Memory</p><p>12:00 Hypnosis as the Oldest Western Psychotherapy</p><p>15:13 What Happens in the Brain During Hypnosis</p><p>18:36 The Default Mode Network and the &quot;My Fault&quot; Network</p><p>22:29 How Hypnotizability Is Measured</p><p>30:28 What High and Low Hypnotizability Looks Like in Life</p><p>33:58 Live Demo: Testing André&#39;s Hypnotizability</p><p>40:11 Dissociation: Adaptive Defense and Pathological Trap</p><p>45:50 How to Use Hypnosis for Stress and Performance</p><p>49:07 Hypnosis vs. Meditation: Being vs. Doing</p><p>54:41 Flow State, Golf, and the Art of Process Over Outcome</p><p>58:13 Believing Is Seeing: The Color Perception Experiment</p><p>1:01:00 Perception as a Generative, Interpretive Act</p><p>1:03:29 Emotions as Signals and Hypnosis as a Flashlight</p><p>1:07:01 Smoking, Self-Respect, and Reframing Addiction</p><p>1:09:08 Dr. Spiegel&#39;s Path: A Genetic Illness in the Family</p><p>1:15:44 Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Many Selves</p><p>1:19:54 If There&#39;s No Solid Self, Who Are We?</p><p>1:22:04 Collective Trance and Societal Hypnosis</p><p>1:26:50 Reverie and Empowering Innate Abilities</p><p>1:27:12 Closing Message: Learn More About Your Innate Abilities</p><p>___________</p><p><br></p><p>✨MORE FROM DR. DAVID SPIEGEL</p><p>↳Reveri: https://app.reveri.com/ Use code KNOWTHYSELF20 for 20% off membership</p><p><br></p><p>📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF</p><p>↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l</p><p>↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX</p><p>↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/</p><p>↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum</p><p>↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/</p><p>↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/</p><p><br></p><p>👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ</p><p>↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum</p><p>↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast</p><p>↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list</p>