Originally posted by WeRpeons
I've been "hypnotized" before but it really didn't work on me. I was kind of embarrassed for the guy who tried to put me under, because he definitely didn't put me under a trance like state. Some people are more susceptible to hypnotic suggestions. In college, I had a physics professor that hypnotized the class. Only a small percentage succumbed to his suggestions.

If I recall correctly, he said people can take themselves out of a hypnotic trance. It's supposedly like driving down a highway and how you forget the past 20 miles because your mind was focused so much on the road. You really don't lose all Considering these were high school kids, I wonder if they were pretending not to be able to come out of their trance like state. Maybe they wanted to prolong the show so they didn't have to go back to class.

My parents have been "hypnotized" to stop smoking....like 5 times.

They still smoke.

And I can absolutely see someone doing that to avoid class. Couldn't say that I wouldn't have done the same 20 years ago.

Originally posted by daynight42
If this is the effect of a hypnotist on children and they said they're especially vulnerable, then that is just even more reason for children to be potentially damaged and indoctrinated by television. TV and movies are not exactly the same as this, but their minds are very open to suggestion, and TV/movies/YouTube provides plenty of that.

You can really compare children to animals. If you don't "train" them your way, someone else will train them their way. It's probably going to be the marketers. Most parents don't mind that, though, as long as little Jimmy or Susie is quiet. Such a shame, to shove your kids in front of a TV and have it corrupt their minds.

That is one of the reasons I posted this here. It made me wonder how easy it was if this could happen. I am with you on the "training", others may call it something different but children are molded by what they are raised with. Some can break away from it, others never even try.

The mass hypnosis idea could make one paranoid about things like the television, radio, print ads, etc. These people pay BIG money to find the best way to make you WANT what they HAVE that you probably don't even need. Testing hypnosis for that purpose would not surprise me in the least. One should always pay attention to what their children are paying attention to IMO.

School children are mass hypnotised eveyday, and they never snap out of it. So at least they eventually came out of it today, the real question is when are the bureaucrats going to snap out of their mass hypnosis which believes more tax money equals smarter children.

Years ago my brother and I went to a comedy club where the featured act was a hypnotist. He asked for volunteers and to my surprise my normally shy brother went on stage. The guy did a few tests on the subjects and sent some back to the audience but my brother stayed.

Each person was led to believe they were famous and had to introduce themself to the audience. My brother stated " I obviously need no introduction but I am your President, Bill Clinton". This was shortly after the Lewinsky affair. The girl beside him thought she was Shania Twain and my brother casually put his arm around her! Later, they were told to go out in the audience and give their autograph. I flagged him down and he unhesitatingly signed his name William Jefferson Clinton!

If it had not been my own brother, I would have thought they were all actors in the employ of the comedian. He also had them believe that blank pieces of paper he threw in the air was money and they almost got into fights trying to get it. My brother even took some sticking out of a guys pocket!

It was the funniest thing I've ever seen but also scary that a person could be made to do things completely out of character and not remember a thing.

This is said to have been cause my a 20 old kid that did not know what he was doing so just think what some one who really knew thier stuff could do. Now that is the scary part.

Originally posted by fixer1967
This is said to have been cause my a 20 old kid that did not know what he was doing so just think what some one who really knew thier stuff could do. Now that is the scary part.

I do hypnosis shows and hypnotherapy with two things in mind, creating laughter, challenging peoples perceptions of life to better themselves or simply helping people.

This is what makes me wonder, if an ordinary person like myself can influence another what can governing bodies, media, technology, advertisements and other areas do to us?

If your really think about how much content is bombarded into our minds on a daily basis when we look at it all, even an expert in NLP, hypnosis, spotting disinformation, spotting misinformation, marketing, advertising or anything even slightly related has no chance of being unaffected by it.

Our minds are a cesspit of what others want you to be, feel and do. Yet so few can even begin to see this and even worse is the fact that even if you can see it, you cannot stop yourself from being affected by it.

It is time that people stopped looking in the wrong places if you get my meaning, only then can you actually realise yourself and begin learning.

Stop looking at the crap, start learning, its pretty simple really yet even the people who believe in conspiracies look at the same stuff as the rest of society only with anger or an alternative view from the rest. We are so trapped in this never ending cycle of confusion it must have some people wetting themselves with laughter. It is sad.

I was once hypnotized during a counseling session after a divorce. When he counted backwards from 10-1, I was supposed to come up from the deep relaxed pace he sent me, it had worked every week before

I could not come back this time because this time he left out the last words about coming back, I felt like i was in a deep well I was trying so hard but could not rise to the surface, In my head I was yelling to him I could not get back.

It was a terrifying experience and I started wondering if coma victims may not be in just such a state.

If someone were to try hypnosis on them and then worked it back, maybe they would wake.

Originally posted by Char-Lee
I was once hypnotized during a counseling session after a divorce. When he counted backwards from 10-1, I was supposed to come up from the deep relaxed pace he sent me, it had worked every week before

I could not come back this time because this time he left out the last words about coming back, I felt like i was in a deep well I was trying so hard but could not rise to the surface, In my head I was yelling to him I could not get back.

It was a terrifying experience and I started wondering if coma victims may not be in just such a state.

If someone were to try hypnosis on them and then worked it back, maybe they would wake.

Geez! I guess you were terrified!! Did you ever go under again after that?

Your coma comment is something I have often thought of. Like the "pull the plug" scenario. I always wondered if they weren't fully aware somewhere on the inside just screaming... Intense.

I love the thought of hypnosis. I have never been able to go under though. I really wanted to for a pain killer free labor and birth on my first child. Just never could really let go enough to trust anyone with my head.

If you are over 18 and want to have a good laugh, google jackpot no hands. If you are wandering if you are someone susceptible what better way to find out than this?

These girls must have wanted it to work. That is the only thing I can think would cause this. I personally feel you really have to trust the person before you can let go enough to go under. Otherwise, you are busy planning how the rest of your night will go while listening the person babble on and on.

Originally posted by rival
Personal experience about my father...First, he was self-driven and curious. On a normal blue-collar
income he became a licensed pilot, a licensed charter boat captain, deep diver, created a gasoline
aspirating gizmo he attached to a behemoth Ford Fairlane that I witnessed, measured, and can verify
attained 67 miles to the gallon (albeit, with no real power and much sputtering and coughing--this
is before fuel injection with a modified carburetor), skied behind an airplane, created the first light
and siren bars for police cars and got no credit, and did many other strange and imaginative things
like constructing the first potato gun I ever heard of, back in the sixties....

Plus he once read a book about hypnosis...

I have watched my father, many times, hypnotize people for fun, or to stop smoking, or regression, or
other reasons.

I have personally watched a woman in my home freak out when under hypnotic suggestion Elvis walked
in and greeted her. She went hysterical and Dad had a hard time "bringing her back."

I have watched another grown woman go back to her third or fourth Christmas and describe yellow
haired dolls and the Christmas tree, and who was present.

I have watched people quit smoking, lose weight (temporarily), come to grips with irrational fears,
all due to hypnosis. Even been there for lots of parlor tricks when "trigger" words
would make them suddenly itch, or start laughing for no reason other then post-hypnotic suggestion.

But to this day, I have yet to be hypnotized, and after careful reading of the book he read (plus MANY
others on the subject---you can hardly find them nowadays) I have yet to successfully hypnotize
anyone.

Hypnosis requires a willing subject, who is very trusting of the hypnotist...or it won't work. Skeptical
and wary folks are very hard to hypnotize. I would bet most members here fall in the latter category
so don't waste your money on hypnotic "stopping-smoking" seminars....you probably won't be
affected and waste your money.

But I assure from personal experience hypnosis does work on some people...and on some people
it works extremely well...

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I agree. I went to one of those smoking cessitation sessions. Not only could I not be hypnotized, but when it came time for the hypnotist to get to the part where he was telling his audience to cough all the gunk out of their lungs, and the room started coughing their lungs out, I embarrassingly started laughing. I had to get up and leave. I didn't mean to laugh, I really didn't!

Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe

Originally posted by Char-Lee
I was once hypnotized during a counseling session after a divorce. When he counted backwards from 10-1, I was supposed to come up from the deep relaxed pace he sent me, it had worked every week before

I could not come back this time because this time he left out the last words about coming back, I felt like i was in a deep well I was trying so hard but could not rise to the surface, In my head I was yelling to him I could not get back.

It was a terrifying experience and I started wondering if coma victims may not be in just such a state.

If someone were to try hypnosis on them and then worked it back, maybe they would wake.

Geez! I guess you were terrified!! Did you ever go under again after that?

Your coma comment is something I have often thought of. Like the "pull the plug" scenario. I always wondered if they weren't fully aware somewhere on the inside just screaming... Intense.

No and I never will be hypnotized again, you can get lost in there..weird but inside you feels like a real place under those circumstances, you are deep in a black hole.

Just have the friendly U.S. government send over a trained hypnotist for the kid's fun and entertainment for less than market price. Hell, even book it for free.

Hypnotism is cool and all, good for adults, but I think kids are a little sensitive to that stuff. Sham or not, it still caused quite a "trance", which could be viewed as problematic among many.