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Has anyone of you ever been hypnosised? I just visited the theme park next door cause i got in free today and they have a hypnosis show and it was pretty hilarious...
But I did not volunteer, so I'm kinda curious if anyone can tell me what it is like...

I tried that once when i was at a psychologist but it had absolutely no response. He did the hypno thing because i asked him to do it just for fun and curiosity, but i think he himself doughted the process...[/quote]

ive never actualy been hypnotised but i taght myself nlp.... thhat can be fun sometimes

fishpoo222 wrote:ive never actualy been hypnotised but i taght myself nlp.... thhat can be fun sometimes

what's nlp ? @_@

Neuro Lynguistic Programming or something. It's all about studing peoples reactions and making logical assumptions based on their responces, and other things along these lines. There's probably a lot more to it but thats the gist I've got.

I've never been hipnotyzed...but I've been into such demosntrations, and like you, yeah I didn't want to be part of the show. Tho I was like scared because it was pretty much convincing.

what's nlp ? @_@

Tim got half of it.

basicly its about watching people then trying to match there breathing and actions, once you get that they tend to end up being "in tune" with you on a subconciouse (is that spelt right?) level. with a little care and patience you can begin to influence what people say and do. its quite funny wheen you get people to say or do things at the same time.

To me, hypnotism is the most fascinating single subject in the world because it either fully explains or partly illuminates many psychological puzzles and has vast implications for every realm of human mental endeavour. The unfathomable potential of the human mind the source of all past and future progress can be explored and enhanced by the prudent use of hypnotism.

I read somewhere you have to be ready to be hypnotized for it to work. Meaning theoretically volunteering in a show and refuse to be hypnosised would screw the show. Therefore I am a little in doubt of these shows, because for the show to be a success they must be sure of the voluteer to be an actual volunteer and noone who just wants to proof he cant hypnosise him.
You could be only sure if a close friend of yours would be the target, in any other cases they could have had a pre talk and a fee was aranged to hold an NDA about the pretalk... in the end he might really forget about what he did, because he allowed the hypnotist to really hypnotize him.

well, the show i went to began with the notice that it only works if you are readdy for it to work. bein uncertain ist okay, but thinking it will not work would lead to it not working...
next thing this guy did was take like 30 people on the stage and tried to put them in trance one after another... and then he did some simple stuff and send away everyone on whom the simple stuff had not worked...
the second show i saw also took a lot of volunteers but without the small test at the beginning, and he had indeed some people that just did not react on anything he did...

He made an interesting comparison: the state hypnosis puts you in is pretty much the same state you are in when you are reading an boring book and after 15 minutes you think "damn, what the heck did the last few pages say? i must had read them..."

A few stage hypnotists might resort to fakery in order to insure a fast-paced, entertaining show. But the peculiar thing is that even when faced with an amazing but legitimate demonstration, it is easy for the public to assume that trickery in the form of confederates or at least pre-conditioned subjects is used. To those who think hypnotism is a fake involving nothing more than role-playing on the part of participants, I have only this to say: there is no need for trickery in hypnosis, because it is actually easier to do than it is to fake!

I've never gotten hypnotized, not for lack of trying, though, it just didn't happen.

I guess hypnosis depends on the person as well.
I was pretty eager to get hypnotised in the psychaitrists lab but it just didn't work. Well as i said he doughted it will work and told me th same thing that some people are more receptive than others.

De Kus wrote:I read somewhere you have to be ready to be hypnotized for it to work. Meaning theoretically volunteering in a show and refuse to be hypnosised would screw the show.

True, but a good hypnotist can probably "single out" someone in the audience who he can use.

Like a carnival magician ;)

I know a certain technique which is close to hipnoses. I call it "putting peole to sleep". Basically i cut off the oxigen of one's brain for about 2 seconds, by pressing oin his chest after he's hiperventilated. After that he goes into a state of coma for about 5 seconds after which he wakes up confused. I've tried it on myself(i had someone else do it to me) and it's a very weird feeling. You feel like you've slept a whole night and when you wake up you're very confused because you don't realise what's going on with you.