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Re:Hypnosis question - 2007/05/04 20:50
The only hypnotism I've ever seen is a stage act. The hyp guy gets a bunch of students on stage and they cluck like chickens. My observation:
1) First there's a "suggestibility" filter. "Put your hands together, they are locked, anyone who can't unlock them, come up on stage."
2) The people on stage he then puts under his super deep hypno trance.
3) He starts to get them to do simple things.
4) Once in a while he makes a big show of pointing out someone who is no longer in the trance but just faking it and rather rudely orders the person off the stage.
5) The rest of the people on stage don't want to be similarly embarrassed and are happy to play along.
6) The woman next to you might be encouraged to strip down to her bra and if you have to cluck like a chicken to get a ring side seat to that, you'll cluck like a chicken.
It's just the same effect where you act drunker than you are.
I think there are suggestible people. But I doubt there is some magic other woo woo state that has all kinds of healing properties, be they physical or of the mind.
In terms of pain, an old ep of Penn Radio has a guy who had chronic pain and was going to a pain clinic. One technique for managing pain was directing your attention elsewhere. Try it some time when you're really cold (err if you live in a cold part of the world like Canada you know what I'm talking about cold = pain). Just think of something else, like a naked woman. It's also easy to will your pain away for brief moments of time. "I'm not cold I'm not cold."
Seems to me if a hyp guy is telling you to think of your childhood while he's sticking a needle in you, it's really just directing your attention elsewhere.
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