Not really - hypnosis is something natural and we are always in some sort of hypnosis, but you can induce a state of deep hypnosis and even see it happening on the EEG. A certain characteristic pattern - there was a study done on this some years ago at Charite Berlin.

Naja - and if you tell yourself to slow down for example - you really do that.
Not like just reading: Now my reading slows down - and then somehow artificially and consciously slowing down.
No - you slow down period, as Sageous might say.
That seems the only thing to do then - that's not normal consciousness - and such it also comes to sound eerie, because it's different.
But it didn't work yet. Not in English. But it worked in as far as I hypnotized myself - just the suggestion didn't go through properly.
Maybe I just translate that specific part? Or at least first and then one more try..