DRIVING IN A TRANCE
Dr. Griffith W. Williams, a New Jersey psychologist, confirms what most motorists know —that some people can drive in a trance.
Dr. Williams said he hypnotised a Rutgers University student and sent him driving for several miles without mishap. The student stopped, started, and turned as required, but his reactions were slower than normal. Dr. Williams said that the trance could be induced by monotony such as caused by driving on long stretches of highways free of distractions. For persons liable to such trances, however, a back-seat driver was a posI sible cure. “The trance is broken, of course,” Dr. Williams said, “by some [distraction such as the honking of a horn or other sudden noise.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 6
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