anyone been hypnotized

[Flasch186]

I got pulled up on stage at a show in Vegas and I was relaxed (lets call it) and I did the funny bits and 'acted' but I remembered everything and didnt experience any 'snapping in and out of it'. I definitely looked more real then a lot of people did upon watching playback but I dunno, I didnt feel hypnotized. Just relaxed. [shrug]

[molson]

I got pulled up on stage at a show in Vegas and I was relaxed (lets call it) and I did the funny bits and 'acted' but I remembered everything and didnt experience any 'snapping in and out of it'. I definitely looked more real then a lot of people did upon watching playback but I dunno, I didnt feel hypnotized. Just relaxed. [shrug]

I went to one of those and my friend got on stage. It was one of the "adult" shows - I don't remember the guy's name, it was a block off the strip in a little theater, not in a hotel. My friend played along and told dirty jokes when requested, but he said he was never hypnotized in any way. But, he did say that there was a girl next to him on stage, who he didn't know and never even talked to, who seemed out of it and kept leaning her head on his shoulder and touching him. She could have just been drunk though.

[Marmel]

From Wiki:

Contrary to a popular misconception—that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep—contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.[6] Subjects also show an increased response to suggestions.[7] In the first book on the subject, Neurypnology (1843), Braid described "hypnotism" as a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration ("abstraction").[8] In addition, psychiatric nurses in most medical facilities are allowed to administer hypnosis to patients in order to relieve symptoms such as anxiety, arousal, negative behaviors, uncontrollable behavior, and improve self esteem and confidence only when they have been completely trained about their clinical side effects and while under supervision when administering it

My BFF is a stage hypnotist. It sounds like what you experienced, Flasch, is what being hypnotised really is. You get very relaxed and show an increased response to suggestion. A hypnotist cannot make somebody do something that they don't want to do. Somebody who goes under can remember everything or won't remember a thing, depending on what they want.

My friend lets anybody who wants to come on stage be a part of his show. Some people go under, some do not. Most of the ones who do not he sends back to the audience. A few who he knows are not under he allows to stay on stage because they are playing along and are entertaining and really that is the whole point of the show. The ones who do go under are the most entertaining though.

[Lathum]

I don't eat meat. I have nothing against meat, I don't care about animals, I just don't really eat it, haven't for years and can't bring myself to start.

My Mother in Law wants me to get hypnotized so I will start eating meat again. She has even offered to pay for it.

[britrock88]

I don't eat meat. I have nothing against meat, I don't care about animals, I just don't really eat it, haven't for years and can't bring myself to start.

My Mother in Law wants me to get hypnotized so I will start eating meat again. She has even offered to pay for it.

All so she doesn't have to make a couple extra side dishes? Sheesh.

[Autumn]

What you don't realize Flasch is that the hypnotist told you to write this post.

[PilotMan]

Well, and then there is the whole social psychology aspects of being on stage and feeling an obligation to play along as part of the bit, making the entire process seem that much more believable.

[Flasch186]

Well, and then there is the whole social psychology aspects of being on stage and feeling an obligation to play along as part of the bit, making the entire process seem that much more believable.


Thats where I was. I wasnt going to do anything crazy but I'd help the guy out in my....relaxed sleepy state.

[molson]

So hypnotists can't make you think you're a chicken? And they can't, as the stage hypnotist assured us he wouldn't do, "make you suck some other guy's dick"?

I think since you're 3 years old, all life is is learning various facts that make the world less interesting. Screw you reality.

[cartman]

I don't eat meat. I have nothing against meat, I don't care about animals, I just don't really eat it, haven't for years and can't bring myself to start.

My Mother in Law wants me to get hypnotized so I will start eating meat again. She has even offered to pay for it.

I'll chip in as well to see if we can get you to drink a beer other than Miller Lite. :D

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Every guy on this board who is married or has been in the past must answer "yes" to this question.

[Grover]

I don't eat meat. I have nothing against meat, I don't care about animals, I just don't really eat it, haven't for years and can't bring myself to start.

My Mother in Law wants me to get hypnotized so I will start eating meat again. She has even offered to pay for it.

I'm a vegetarian myself and this would make me even more resistant to eating meat.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I've been hypnotized and taken suggestions from the hypnotist to perform on stage. This happened at a renaissance festival a few years ago. I ended up being the star of the show. It's actually an interesting story, but to skip to the end, I was hypnotized to act like I was pregnant and going into labor.

[sterlingice]

And then you passed kidney stone?

SI

[21C]

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[johnnyshaka]

I met my wife at a hypnotist show. I was really drunk, though, so I'm not sure if she was hypnotized, or if I was, or if both of us were...all I know is we've been together for 10 years, have two kids, and a mortgage and that I'll never go to another hypnotist show again...I can't afford it!!

[hoopsguy]

I'll chip in as well to see if we can get you to drink a beer other than Miller Lite. :D

If hypnosis can do this then I'm going to sign my wife up for it immediately. With or without her consent :eek: