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  • 30-03-2015 11:12am
    #1
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭


    I don't see a thread on this anywhere but anyone I have spoken to over the last week or two about this show is all about it!


    Shown on one of the UTV/ITV channels and also on TV3/3e on a Saturday night.


    Philip Schofield presents. Keith Barry hypnotises 5 contestants, the contestants take part in a game show to win a shared pot of money and after each round, what they are hypnotised about is changed. The show is hilarious!


    While I would not be a fan of hypnosis personally - I would hate for some one to have control of me and me making a potential fool of myself.


    The contestants do know what they are getting themselves into, and they are sceptical of hypnosis and cannot believe when they are hsown clips of it after.


    Anyone else watching the show?


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  • #2
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Cheers for the heads up, must check it out.

    I've been hypnotised once before for a stage show while I was on holiday. It's a weird sensation, but you feel amazing afterwards, as if you've had the greatest sleep of your life.


  • #3
    RossieMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    what a total pile of absolute ****e this show is.


  • #4
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    You lost me at Philip Schofield/ITV.

    I also heard someone auditioned for it and they had to pretend to be hypnotised. Below isn't the article that I'm thinking of but it's along the same lines.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984576/Don-t-hypnotised-fraudulent-nonsense-Therapists-savage-ITV-s-Room.html


  • #5
    Blaithik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Blaithik


    I believe the Mythbusters did an episode on this. The experts were not able to hypnotise Kari, Grant or Tory into doing something they didn't want to. For example, they relaxed Grant and attempted to hypnotise him to slap Kari when a keyword was spoken. The next day they said that word, and apparently he "Felt an urge" but nothing uncontrollable.


  • #6
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #7
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    Ah lookit!! It's entertainment and gives us as a family a good giggle on a Saturday night!


  • #8
    Kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Sunny Dayz wrote: »
    Ah lookit!! It's entertainment and gives us as a family a good giggle on a Saturday night!

    No. It's nonsense and should be treated as such. There is a world of difference between stuff like this and say, watching a magic show. It's fake, everyone knows its a trick and the magician isn't claiming he's doing real magic. That's entertainment. It's all in good fun and nobody gets hurt.

    It stops becoming "only entertainment" when it tries to portray itself as real......like this show. That's fraud. The type of people who peddle hypnosis are very, very close to the types who claim to be able to talk to the dead.....and charge for the privilege. They are scum and they prey on the weak. When I see the likes of Colin Fry on tv I get incredibly angry that they allowed to get away with it.


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