Do you believe animal magnetism is real? First, animal magnetism as a general vital universal principle: animal magnetism is for Mesmer a principle that touches both man and the universe at all levels: psychological, human and cosmological. For Mesmer, animal magnetism is mainly a theory to describe the entanglement between man and universe. Mesmer's theory is based on the concept of something through which everything in the universe is interconnected. It is something before matter.
Second, Hypnosis originates from the practice of Mesmerism, being an attempt at what the surgeon James Braid described as "rational mesmerism". Braid based his methods of hypnotism directly on the practice of Mesmerism, but applied a more rational explanation for how the process worked. The term “hypnotism” was coined and introduced by Braid.
Hypnosis did not replace mesmerism at the end of the nineteenth century, but still existed alongside it. In fact, magnetism, and its variants, continued to be defended by serious students during the late nineteenth and into the twentieth century. Ideas, similar to the concept of animal magnetism, are still with us in many guises.
Those are in depth descriptions for what I think is the obvious, I think it exists. When you actually catch someone looking at you and the eyes meet, there is this "butterfly" or effect that overcomes you where you step briefly out of reality and just think for a second, how damn sexy or bad you want that person you have contact with. You are in that hypnotic state where everything around you is gone and only the nature of the beast with in you is risen! You want at all cost to share yourself with that person.
