Pretty fucked up what he can do…it’s awesome to watch but scary that it can be done.
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I was volunteered for a hypnotist show at a high-school assembly. I tried to get hypnotized, I really did. But it didn’t work. However, they never told us what to do if we were NOT hypnotized, so I just went along with it and faked my way through all the stupid schticky things. Later everyone told me how I was totally hypnotized and I looked like I was totally out of it and zombiefied and it was obviously the real deal. Well, for some I’m sure it was. But it wasn’t for me, that’s for sure.
I was volunteered for a hypnotist show at a high-school assembly. I tried to get hypnotized, I really did. But it didn’t work. However, they never told us what to do if we were NOT hypnotized, so I just went along with it and faked my way through all the stupid schticky things. Later everyone told me how I was totally hypnotized and I looked like I was totally out of it and zombiefied and it was obviously the real deal. Well, for some I’m sure it was. But it wasn’t for me, that’s for sure.
From what I’ve heard, stage hypnosis is pretty much a crock. Well, it is in the sense that no one’s being mind controlled.
From what I’ve heard, stage hypnosis is pretty much a crock. Well, it is in the sense that no one’s being mind controlled.
It can be done, but . . . . the ones that are properly done will first filter their volunteers through a series of “pre-hypnotizing”, that is, they will first select who can and will go properly into a state of hypnosis. Otherwise, your show looks pretty lame if 10 people are sitting there in chairs just looking at each other.
This is the last 15 minutes of a very interesting show that took the question “Can Someone Be Hypnotized to Kill Someone?”. I wish it had the full show as it was very interesting to see the process they went through and how the eliminated those that were not as susceptible and even some that they felt were “faking”.
Thinking back on my own experience, I’m starting to view it in a different light. Considering the fact that I went through the motions despite not being at all hypnotized, I guess one could even say that I was still a victim of control in that I made a willful decision to partake in an irrational activity (as I’m sure many others have done as well) merely because someone asked it of me. I’m a bit of an attention whore, so that would certainly be a factor too, but some people who are pretty normal peeps probably do some stuff on stage more ridiculous and compromising than I do.
It’s almost comparable to classic control experiments like “Milgram’s Experiment” (the one where the controller instructs the subject to continue administering what he thinks are potentially dangerous electric shocks to the confederate) or even “Stanford Prison Experiment” where people are assigned roles to play and take them over accordingly . . . with rather scary results.
I find the topics of social psychology and altered states of consciousness and mind control to be very interesting.