Good question. Everything is hypnosis and at the same time nothing is hypnosis. Most often it is understood as experiencing an altered state of consciousness.A person may experience things differently than in a normal waking state, and their attention is directed inward.

Hypnosis is not sleep, although the external manifestations are similar to it in many ways.Both in sleep and in hypnosis, a person has different brain wave frequencies, but they are distinct from each other.

You are in control the whole time and I am just guiding you.With a few exceptions of "insidious", manipulative, hypnosis, it is not possible to "force" a person to do what they do not want to do.So you want to cackle and give me your wallet?