{"id":3239,"date":"2020-02-29T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:53:48","slug":"story-hypnotising-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/29\/3239\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypnotising Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The story \u201cHypnotising Dogs\u201d is also designed to cure the symptoms of travel sickness, since what\u2019s good for dogs is also good for humans. The method involves refocusing attention from bodily experiences to the hearing, relieving anxiety and stress through a relaxation trance, and producing heart and breathing rates which are similar to those experienced during sleep and are wholly dissimilar to those experienced during attacks of nausea. The procedure is also suitable for infants, dementia patients, coma patients, people with severe mental disabilities and other people with whom verbal communication is not possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently took a coach trip with a group of family\nmembers, including Luna the labrador. \u201cShe feels sick,\u201d said my sister-in-law. \u201cShe\u2019s\nalready retched several times. She doesn\u2019t like travelling by car because it\nsometimes makes her vomit. Can\u2019t you hypnotise her so that it doesn\u2019t happen while\nshe\u2019s in the coach with us?\u201d I talked to Luna for a while and then asked my\nnephew Nikolas: \u201cWould you lend Luna your MP3 player? Find some peaceful music\n\u2013 a lullaby or something similar. Set the volume very low, and place the\nheadphones on Luna\u2019s ears.\u201d Nikolas found a band whose music was suitable and put\nthe headphones over Luna\u2019s head. After half a minute or so, Luna relaxed and\nlay down, and was soon asleep. Her symptoms of nausea did not reappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story \u201cHypnotising Dogs\u201d is also designed to cure the symptoms of travel sickness, since what\u2019s good for dogs is also good for humans. The method involves refocusing attention from bodily experiences to the hearing, relieving anxiety and stress through … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}