We are justified in concluding, therefore, that the resistance of a person in a trance to improper suggestions is strong only as long as he is asked directly to violate his economic, moral, religious, or aesthetic convictions and interests. But he can be influenced to go against these convictions and interests, if his senses are deceived, if he acts under false assumptions, or if he is unaware of the implications of his conduct. His mistake-that is what it amounts to-may be disastrous, though natural, under special circumstances. The plain truth of the whole problem is, in the words of C. Baudouin, that any subject will follow a suggestion if he "imagines it to be possible." But he will resist or disobey a suggestion to do anything that he would not do ordinarily, if the act is presented as such.
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