Do you believe in Hypnotism?

Doohickey said:
On stage it's still all about suggestion. That and co-operation in front of an audience. The 'hypnotist' will already have filtered out who he feels will be the most co-operative people to use for the funny stuff.
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But there is suggestion and there is down right stupid. This small kids trike in the shape of a car is not the fastest car in the world.
 
No money. Plus the thought of someone telling me to pull down my trousers and bend over... and me DOING IT... scares the crap out of me.

I dunno though. I probably would be hypnotized purely because I need an answer to my question. But if I suddenly stop posting here it means I tried to spread the word that it's all a lie and someone stopped me.
 
Not exactly, Hypnotherapy I believe and it appears to be simply a state of deep relaxation where you are able to more easily gain access to the mind. It is very similar to meditation and visulisation techniques.

Is hypnotism the new God on OcUK :)

All hypnotism Athiests say Aye!
 
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I think hypnotism is a placebo effect, if youre mind thinks something is real it makes it real to you.

Sort of like using sugar pills as painkillers, if a doctor tells you they are very powerfull, and you have no possible thought that it could be un true, then there is a chance they will act as painkillers due to the response by your brain. Another example is absinthe, so many wild storys about it causing hallucinogenic effects, so people drink it and sometimes experience these effects, but its just their mind creating the effects not the drink.

Same thing for hypnotism in my opinion, if a person realy thinks that it can work, then the brain can make it work. Where as people who think its just a scam, and think it does nothing, it proberly wont do anything.
 
i have been staged hypnostised and medically hypnotised.. the stage hypnosis was purely suggestion and made me 'want' to do the things, i could have easily stopped myself doing. the medical hypnotherapy is literally putting the mind into a certain state (my therapist said almost like the dreams just before you wake up)...i dont think stage hypnotism is proper stuff but the medical side of it definately does work
 
im in between believing it and not the only way i would 100% believe it would for me to get hypnostised and then shown a video afterwards....
 
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

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Yes, i do, and i have been hypnotized on holiday at pontins :) you more than likely wont believe it unless you have personally been hypnotized.
 
No

Mythbusters tested this one before... They came up with, it will only work if you really want to do something, it can't be used to make someone do something they really don't want to
 
Yes have seen my friends get hypnotized in a pub once by a random hypnotist. Was pretty scary though as one girl wasn't able to snap out of it and the end... The guy told them they were in the antarctic and battling the coldest temperatures known to man. She couldn't stop shivering even after the hypnotist left.

Scary mary.
 
Scuzi said:
Hypnotism is very real. I have been hypnotised a few times and it was a very weird experience.

However, I very much doubt that people can be made to do strange things like Paul McKenna claims to do. You are put into a very deep state of relaxation - there is none of this clicking of fingers to awake or put someone to sleep.
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Actually the Paul Mckenna thing is very real. See post above.
 
Hypnotism is not something to "believe" in; that's like asking "do you believe in sleep?"

Having said that, stage "hypnotism" is a load of cobblers. Real hypnosis is nothing like this. Hypnotherapists must cringe in their thousands whenever these "stage hypnotists" get up in public.

Derren Brown uses autosuggestion, which is related to hypnotism but still distinctly different.
 
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