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Can you Really Hypnotize People?
Yes!

And can you really hypnotize with text, recordings or on the phone?

As long as there's some form of communication, hypnosis is possible. It's just a
matter of telling them how to go into trance, or leading them to think or act in a
particular way. Classical hypnosis does it by telling people what to do, think and
feel ("Your eyelids are getting heavier and heavier..."). Ericksonian hypnosis
does it more subtly, and resembles a conversation ("And tell me, can you
remember a time when you were really relaxed?")

Once I'm hypnotized, can you make me do anything you want?

No.

Everything depends on consent. A hypnotist can only affect you up to the point
that you allow it. However, you won't have your usual conscious inhibitions. It's a
bit like when a person is drunk... they can be more easily talked into doing things
they wouldn't normally do. And that's exactly what happens during hypnosis
shows. First, the person knows full well that if they volunteer, they will be made
to do silly things. They know this, and they volunteer anyway. That is consent. But
since she was hypnotized, she thinks, it's not her fault. The hypnotist "controlled
her totally"! Therefore, she wasn't responsible for her actions, and let herself be
silly without feeling shy or guilty. Giving up responsability for your own actions...
is actually one of the attractive points of hypnosis for some people. So basically,
if you give the hypnotist permission to do anything they want to you... then they
can!

Can anyone be hypnotized?

Yes. Some people find it easier to go into trance than others, but everyone can
do it. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to go from wakefulness to sleep and back
again! The transition between waking and sleeping always goes through trance,
though only briefly. Like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Intelligence really has nothing to do with the ability to be hypnotized, though it
does help to be able to focus on one things at a time.

What is hypnosis?

It's a method for bringing people into trance.

What is trance?

It's a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. It's totally natural
and quite common. When you're watching TV, and you're totally involved in the
story... or it might be a really good book... you're in a light trance. It allows you to
believe in the story, to forget it isn't real, and to have feelings for imaginary
characters. I mean, who cares if a roll of film has images of an actor pretending to
die? Yet we care about characters as if they were real. That's a hallucination, and
we do it for fun.

Sometimes, you won't even notice what's going on around you during a show,
unless something loud gets your attention and "wakes you". TV is a powerful
hypnotic! If you watch children in front of their favorite shows... eyes staring wide
open, glazed over, the face flat and expressionless, and sometimes the mouth
partly open... you'll know what a hypnotized person looks like. They don't hear
you, they don't see you, because you're not part of their imaginary reality. And
even though they move a lot more, many women comment how men are
"hypnotized" by sports on TV. They're right.

Similarly, some start thinking about something while driving... and end up at home
remembering nothing of how they drove there! That's because they were on
"automatic pilot" they say. And who is that automatic pilot? It's their subconscious
mind, also known as unconscious mind. And it was doing the driving while the
conscious mind was thinking of something else. Very convenient, isn't it?

What is the unconscious mind ?

(only read this if you want to understand the mechanics of the mind... otherwise,
you can skip down to the "cool part" below... the rest is mostly theory)

It's the part of your mind that you're not aware of. It's the part that makes your
heart beat and makes you secrete digestive juices. It also makes you breathe
when you're not thinking about it. Breathing is an interesting example, because
it's something you can either decide to control consciously, or forget about, and
let your unconscious do the breathing on "auto-pilot".

Your unconscious mind also takes care of remembering things when you're not
thinking about them. Quick ! What's your name? Do you remember what your name
is? Yes? Good... I wouldn't want you to be so deeply hypnotized that you don't
remember your name... at least not yet! *smile*

Obviously, you don't spend your time repeating to yourself what your name is so
you don't forget it. The knowledge has to be kept somewhere. And it is. In your
unconscious mind. Never mind the all the brain hardware with the neurons and
all... we're talking software here. It's like your conscious mind is the program, and
your unconscious mind is the operating system, like Windows. A program that
needs to read the hard disk can't do it. It has to ask the operating system to fetch
the information for it. Ideally, you want to forget the operating system, and just
focus on the program you're using, be it a game or whatever. The operating
system should be transparent to you. And it is. Just like your unconscious mind.

Your conscious mind is like the captain. It's in charge, but it depends on the rest
of the crew to do the real work. and if the crew gives the captain some
information, the captain has to believe it. He can't leave his post to check it out
himself. So if the guy at radar says there's another ship ahead, the captain
believes it. He gives the orders based on the information he gets.

Your unconscious takes all the data from millions of nerves, and packages it up in
nice little bundles that your conscious mind can handle. There is no way your
conscious mind could understand that much information by itself. We believe that
what we see hear and feel are the real world. They're not. They're only the part
that your unconscious thinks you want to know about. A whole lot gets deleted.
Like the sounds happening around you now, that you probably weren't aware of
until I reminded you.

THE COOL PART: so what this means is, if the unconscious tells you that your
name is Bob when you try to remember, or that your name is Mary, then you kinda
have to believe it. If it shows you that you're in a bedroom in a castle, then that's
where you are. If it tells you you're feeling like a 15 year old with a major crush...
then that's how you feel. Reality isn't something you can perceive directly. It's all
coming from your unconscious. So if you get a hypnotist who talks to the
unconscious... and you agree to letting your perceptions be changed... you can
end up with a very interesting experience.

And since the unconscious is also the auto-pilot, you can allow it to be
re-programmed to get rid of certain habits, or to start new ones. And this is
without having to strain your conscious willpower.

Are there dangers?

Hypnosis is as natural as sleeping and dreaming. In fact, if you leave someone
alone in trance, they wake up by themselves after a while. Nevertheless, it's best
to have a competent hypnotist, as amateurs can mess things up unintentionally. It
should also be someone you trust. The unconscious sometimes isn't very
discriminating, and can accept suggestions that aren't completely good for you,
as long as they answer to certain needs or desires.

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