You are either, as your name suggest drunk in which case this post could be forgiven for its complete lack of sense. However, if you are sober I would suggest you at least read up about a subject before you make a total idiot out of yourself.
You obviously know nothing about what hypnosis is or the methods it uses.
My fav comment:
Yes, we can trick the mind, it's called Hypnosis.
The only false thing about hypnosis is actually the name. Hypno means sleep, the state you achieve through hypnosis only looks like sleep but your mind is very alert and open.
Hypnosis ' once called magnetism ' has been used in surgery as far back as the early 1800's in europe. There are many fascinating accounts out there, perhaps you should find some!
Hypnosis is by very design using your subconcious to trick your concious mind. Planting an idea in your subconcious to almost override what your concious mind is telling you. SO no its not conciously tricking your mind. THat would be very different. That would be the guy feeling the pain, and simply telling himself as it happened, that it doesn't hurt. As i said theoretically, it might be possible.
But as i said, theres no definitive studies. People are so weird when they claim that it works based on a few very limited occurances that completely and utterly contradict the normal experience of pain and yet they know nothing of the individuals brain chemistry whatsoever.
Do you know how many receptors that person has? what pain they've experienced in their life? what medications they've been on throughout life, what medications that aren't pain killers they may be on right then that aren't pain killers that can still do many other things to block or lessen pain or change the brain chemistry? no, none of that is even remotely mentioned.
The brain chemistry is far beyond going into detail in this thread, but everyone is potentially different.
Some people can't feel enjoyment or happyness due to lack of seretonin, or even opiates that the body can release. yes, opiates, something that can naturally be released into the body, a pain killer. What about adrenaline, what about genetic predisposition for lower nerve ending count in the roots of teeth? What about someone whose depressed, is on Prozac and at that point has an abnormally high seretonin count causing other receptors in the brain to release endorphines, or maybe activating the other receptors releasing other chemicals into the brain?
Again, all these incredibly basic articles with no fact, no testing, no indication of really anything scientific to prove it and I'm not convinced, shocking
I've had a root canal done, I have a high tolerance to the novacaine crap they use, it hurt as he started the same as when he gave me another 2 doses, and it was tolerable from the start. So what, I sat through it and got it finished and I didn't care that much. Everyone is different.
This guy had chronic artheritis, he's likely on various pain meds for it long term, he might be on several non pain reliving medications that may have helped for the surgery. But again, theres no info. Its another article claiming hypnosis works without a single shred of basic info on the circumstances to which it happened.
he WAS on pain meds long term at that age if it had gotten so bad that he needed an operation. What were they? IF they were opiates, did the long term heightened levels in the brain cause an abnormal reaction when he came off them for the surgery(assuming he did) causing a brain chemical reaction and the brain to flood his body with endorphines? Again, who knows, you don't, and I don't. Because none of that info is in that article.
If the same paper did a story claiming a pig flew, and offered not a shred of scientific backup then i would also have trouble believing that, as I'm sure you would also. So why believe this so readily, with not a single idea what is going on?
People still react to general anaesthsia differently. some people take a strangly higher dose to be knocked out, some people take less. Some people wake up sooner as their body reacts faster some people are opposite. Some people react to mophine and some people don't. Find a list of all the cases where hypnosis has been claimed to help, and all the times it hasn't.
You can't be certain that the few people it worked for simply weren't feeling much pain in the first place, but don't let that stop anyone from claiming it works fantastically.
