Hypnosis-- Can People Be Hypnotized Without Knowing It?

[momof2inPA]

Have you ever actually know someone who has been hypnotized and didn't remember it or remember what they did under hypnosis? Just curious.

 

[DISUNC]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YES!!!!

A few years ago all the people from my job went to a comedian/hypnotist!

He made my very religious stern boss do some very INTERESTING things!!!
And my boss had no recollection!!! HE WAS SHOCKED when he saw the video!

 

[disney junky]

You're getting sleepy....very sleepy.....

 

[Vivianne]

A co-worker of mine went to a hypnotist to stop smoking. She claims it worked but she fell back into her old habit when her grandson died (stress). Then she went again, and so far she claims she doesn't smoke anymore.

 

[autumnbaby9]

I got hypnotized about a year ago and I don't remeber anything about it.

My friends say that it got really X rated and I showed my two buddies up top to the whole audience . It's a good thing I'm not modest or it could have been very embarrasing.

 

[DISUNC]

I got hypnotized about a year ago and I don't remeber anything about it.

My friends say that it got really X rated and I showed my two buddies up top to the whole audience . It's a good thing I'm not modest or it could have been very embarrasing.

This must have been the same show i went too with the people from work!

 

[Caradana]

Well how do you think I got John to marry me?

(wink)

 

[MrsKreamer]

From what I understand, and I have been hypnotized twice, you cannot be hypnotized if you are set against it. Your mind has to be open to it. I did remember most of it, but there were quite a few things I didn't know I did until I watched the tape. I felt that the whole experience was like being drunk...you are kind of in a fog.

 

[miss missy]

Oh yes they can. Look at all the zombies going to work everyday, they look half dead yet they walk and make it to were they are going. We are hypnotized by people everyday, just look around.

 

[orangekid13]

there's no way to get hypnotized if you offer any resistance... it is hard to be hypnotized even if you want to be, you pretty much get put most of the way to sleep
there was a hypnotist at my senior dinner, he said that an hour of hypnotized "sleep" is equivalant to about 6 hours of regular sleep...

all it takes to hypnotize me is a television or a hottie... put a hottie on tv and there's no reaching me

 

[parrothead365]

I heard of a really outstanding hypnotist that once hypnotized the whole crowd using an old pocket watch. Just as he was finishing up he dropped his watch and it broke into a bunch of pieces. As he was looking down at the watch he yelled Crap!! I heard it took them 3 days to clean up the theater.

 

[orangekid13]

haha good joke
you know that the person doesn't have a clue what they're doing if they use a pocket watch, crystal, or anything else you have to look at

 

[GeorgeG]

Hypnosis can be effective even without the subject realizing it. Yes, you can resist it, but a really good hypnotist can usually get you under.

While most people believe you can't be made to do things you do not want to do, the reallity is that you are less likely to do something you feel is very moraly wrong. You can also be hypnotised without realizing it. Something as simple as a monotomous voice or even some music can induce the trance-like state. It's been said that most hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis and the hypnotist is just a facilitator.