The primary problem was concerned with the uses of hypnosis and waking suggestions as means of improving reading efficiency. A second problem concerned rectifying research design inadequacies related to hypnosis experiments. The procedure used pretest scores secured for rate, comprehension, and vocabulary. Subjects were placed in experimental and control groups; hypnosis and waking suggestion groups were given specific instructions designed to improve reading efficiency; and post tests and a followup test were administered. It was found that, in general, changes from pretest to post-test measure, post-test to followup measure, or pretest to following measure were not statistically significant when comparing the hypnosis, waking suggestion, and control groups in any of the tested areas. The researcher concluded that multiple rather than one-treatment session may have led to more significant results; that short instructional audio tapes and self-hypnosis might be useful in improving reading; that other studies are needed in this area; and that perhaps a younger selection of subjects might have more readily adapted to this new set of reading techniques. (DI)