Alright, by nature, I am a skeptical person (of god damn everything!) and recently my mother has been going to a hypnotherapist, of whom I've met and have an unfairly biased opinion, for bettering herself. I have never thought much of hypnosis because it's such a "Grey area" and seems subjective from person to person. I simply dismiss it as a false promise and just being told what you want to hear.

However, since being here, I start to question myself. Conditioning myself to lucid dream and keeping a dream journal seems, to me, awfully close to something some hypnotherapist would have me do for this. So am I a hypocrite for dismissing hypnosis while at the same time, dedicating myself to dreaming? And what are your opinions?

Thanks


P.S. I did a search for this but found nothing either perfectly pertinent or reasonably recent (I did not do that on purpose).