Anyone here ever been hypnotized, or hypnotized someone? A friend of mine recently gave me this really crappy Japanese movie The Hypnotist, and I recently watched another animated short based on the recollections of abductees based off of their recalled memories under hypnosis, so it got me wondering. Is there any real validity to hypnotism? Can one really make others do wacky stuff with it’s uses, or is it all a stage show? And where does one learn how to perform hypnotism? (really, I just want to be able to make my friends give me a dollar everytime they hear the word “Rock”, but the whole concept interests me as well, so…)
I don’t think hypnosis can do any of the things you mentioned, but my mother was hypnotized for the birth of my sister (back in 1960) and she didn’t feel a thing. No drugs, no Lamaze…just hypnosis. During one of the pre-birth sessions, the doctor stuck needles through her cheeks and she didn’t feel it.
I think hypnosis has more to do with focusing your consciousness, if that makes any sense. You train yourself to block out certain things and enhance others. This is just my opinion…I’ve never hypnotized anyone.
The brain is one of the most powerful things we have, and hypnotizing is like allowing someone else to take advantage of that power. I had a friend who know how to do that, but he never managed to hypnotize me, but he managed to make another friend sleep everytime he made a sign with his hand, and that worked for more than a week.
The idea is simple, to access your subconciuss. How to do that? well, focussing your conciuss in something else. My friend had a book about that, and it said that the most simple example of hypnotism is a mother telling her kid to sleep. Also, to do that you must gain the trust and the will of the person. If you don’t want to be hypnotized and don’t believe in that, maybe you won’t be hypnotized.
The possibilities are enormous. I don’t believe in reencarnation or that kind of things, so if i ever hear about someone who accessed her or his past lifes, i just answer that the unconciuss is so unconciuss it can make up memories and things like that. But make someone to give you a dollar everytime you said “rock” is theorically possible… unless he/she has only a credit card.
I’m sure there is a lot of info in the web, i haven’t searched for it, so i can’t give you an adress, but i can tell you that it is dangerous, playing with the mind is allways dangerous.