So on Thursday evening I went to a pub hypnotist show, and this is what happened...

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Right, a story that may interest some, may infuriate others, but meh.

I went to a local pub the other night to see a hypnotist show, I went to a couple at uni and so I was interested in seeing another one. They are gernerally pretty funny.

I asked some people I knew to come and they all dropped out, so I walked in alone, fortunately I know some of the bar staff who had even turned up when they weren't working out of curiosity so I wasn't alltogether alone.

The hypnotist arrived late, but he called up 5 people to be hypnotised. One of those was the pub's chef, and a barmaid. The barmaid didn't cooperate so was sent back to her seat, the chef did, but she freaked out when she relaxed. The fact her father had told her not to get hypnotised probably didn't help and she came running back to us. 2 of the other 3 all failed too. Good start for the hypnotist lol.

So he called up five more, the chef telling all of us that she felt something. I knew she probs did as I'd experimented in the past with mp3s, never understood how a hypnotist show worked though, so far as people doing odd things on stage, the ralx part, yeh sure but not the actually carrying out of stuff. Anyway I was tempted, especially as my mum had done the same as the Chef's dad with me (and I tend to be a little rebelious :p), but I reasoned that I didn't fully trust the hypnotist, so I stayed put. The Chef convinced her boyfriend to go up, and there was also one of the oriinal five still up. The hypnotist started walking around looking for someone and when he got to our corner the Chef pushed me forward. Now not wanting to look like a chicken (I'm aware of the irony of hypnotised people sometimes acting like one) I reluctantly volunteered and went up and sat down.

So I watched the spiralling light, arms held out, relaxed and went under. Done that before. What happened next was wierd. I knew everything I was doing, pretty much, but did it all anyway. I am usually pretty self conscious about people laughing at me, but I really didn't care I did as I was told, misheard a few things so ended up extremely confused when that happened. I also went back under when he clicked his fingers infront of me and told me to sleep.

So basicly I became a Laughing policeman, a catwalk model, a dancing thunderbird puppet and a garden bench as well as a few other things.

Though my mistrust was right, I was asked to do a couple of things I wasn't really comfortable with, the first one, told to describe an imaginary porn movie, (which I toned right down) and the second was orgasming infront of the audience, at that point I became self consious and told him I didn't want to do it. He clicked his fingers again and i went back under ***!

The next thing was the thunderbird puppet, but although I started it I became really self consious, handed him back his hat and went to sit down again. The Chef was really apologetic and her boyfriend bought me a drink afterwards. I needed it, felt a little foolish, even though I proved to myself that you still have enough control to stop you doing too much while under, so one up for me, I guess.

Still now at least the barstaff pretty much all know my name, including the barmaid I threw a thong to whilst under (not something I'd usually do), oops! :p

I did find it annoying when people kept clicking infront of my face for the rest of the night though, as I was never dehypnotised, so I still had the urge to sleep when that happened, but resisted. I also slept well that night.

So yeh, anyone else ever been up? Any other thoughts on this?

Sorry for the wall of text by the way! :D
 
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I remember seeing one at uni where a girl from the I knew from my old college went up & was hypnotised. The hypnotist convinced her that he had a 6ft long **** and when she turned round to him and he started walking towards her, she punched him in the face knocking him backwards and ran out of the su, with the hypnotist running after her! He caught he in the end and brought her back out but it was very funny to watch.
 
Sounds like a great conversation starter with the barmaids!

Hypnotism has always intrigued me, not sure I'd like to go under though!
 
How did he go about hypnotising you without it having an effect on the audience? Isn't it dangerous to not be de-hypnotised? I just imagine a few days later someone clicking their fingers and sleeping in the middle of a road or something.

Don't know if I'd dare go through with it :p
 
How did he go about hypnotising you without it having an effect on the audience? Isn't it dangerous to not be de-hypnotised? I just imagine a few days later someone clicking their fingers and sleeping in the middle of a road or something.

Don't know if I'd dare go through with it :p

Being honest, he wasn't the best hypnotist...

The audience would have to be staring that the light on the ceiling as well and be holding their arms out etc and actually be cooperating with him. No danger really.

And yeh there's a danger of the clicking fingers thing, only for the night though, don't think it would work now, think I'd recovered by the next morning infact.

And when I was still under, I kind of reacted with "don't do that!" every time someone did the fingers thing. I was pretty suggestible as well, called out a stranger's name because someone else told me to. :p
 
I watched a show during freshers week and the hypnotist convinced a volunteer that he would meet a giant bear in the bathroom when he went for a wee. You should have seen his face as he came running back :p
 
I've seen one or two hypnotists while at university (I suspect it was probably the same one twice but didn't pay much attention to the name) and can't claim to have been massively impressed - I did notice that at least one of the people who was supposed to have been hypnotised was at work in the SU about a week later so a more suspicious person might have suspected the fix was in.

However that you wouldn't do things you were strongly opposed to does somewhat tally with what I know of it, you should be more suggestible but not completely without limits regarding what you will do.
 
Did I miss something when I scanned the wall of text? Where did this thong come from and why did you throw it at a barmaid?

That was one of the tasks I was given. He put a thong in my pocket (I felt him put something in there and thought "Don't break my ipod!") and then woke me up and asked me what I had in my pcoket. Took it out and he asked me where I got it from. I knew he'd put the dam thing in there but cudn't actually say it. However when he asked who's it was I did throw it at a barmaid I like. Kind of embarassing as it's not normally something I do, but meh...
 
Never been hypnotised myself, but a friend who has told me it was almost the exact same experience; being fully aware of what you're doing but just not caring at all, so carrying out the requests of the hypnotist anyway.
 
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