Zombie Nation: The Truth About Zombification and the One Zombie Hypnosis Trick You’ll Love to Try

While I’m hoping you’re not the kind of person who eats brains for breakfast, zombification is a fascinating concept that can refer to our brains being ‘hacked’. Of course, zombies are also popular characters in horror movies, rising from the dead to scare the living daylights out of humans.

Now you might be wondering what the connection is between zombies and hypnosis, and why I’ve chosen the terror-inducing topic of zombification for this article. Well, while hypnotists can’t actually turn people into full-on zombies (and we certainly can’t revive the dead!), there are examples of hypnotists inducing zombified effects on their participants.

A famous example of this zombie hypnosis is by someone called Basil Bird, who managed to convince participants that they were actually zombies, complete with outstretched arms and blood-sucking noises!