Is hypnosis real, or is it Bull****?

MJI · 09-10-2015 03:35PM #1

What's the deal with hypnosis? Is there something to it, or is it a load of nonsense?

Diamond Doll · 09-10-2015 03:36PM

The latter.

Next question!

Milly33 · 09-10-2015 03:36PM

I don't know tis a tough one.. Got it done years ago but as such I didn't want it to work so it didn't, did relax you but that's it..

keano_afc · 09-10-2015 03:38PM

For the likes of dealing with a fear it seems to have results. The lads on TV making people think they're chickens? Doubt it.

paleoperson · 09-10-2015 03:39PM

Most people will rightly say it's all bullcrap nonsense.

I'm sure there'll be a small fraction who think they've they've the inside view will come in saying "the shows are all nonsense, but you know real hypnosis is different, it helps you give up cigarettes", etc.

If I was picked out on one of those shows I would say I felt nothing, I would say it was all nonsense. I would rather kill myself than play along with their lies.

09-10-2015 03:40PM

It works if you allow it to. Open your mind and all that business.

Had it done to me years ago were the guy had me dancing like Michael Jackson and singing "I'm a little teapot".

Milly33 · 09-10-2015 03:41PM

Yeah I think you have to be up for it as in like total open to it.. Much like something else but im not going there haha

Trent Houseboat · 09-10-2015 03:43PM

Stage hypnosis. Nonsense, but harmless.
Past life regression. Nonsense
Hypnotherapy. Dunno.

Turtwig · 09-10-2015 03:45PM

Yes it's real but most common depictions of it on tv are bullsht. Think of it like crime procedural image enhancement techniques where they can identify a killer from the reflection in the victim's eye that was caught by a CCTV camera.

NachoBusiness · 09-10-2015 03:45PM

Quack quack.

doulikeit · 09-10-2015 03:45PM

Heard of someone heading to the post office on a monday morning to register a leprechaun after being at a hypno gig on Saturday night

Flatzie_poo · 09-10-2015 03:47PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Quack quack.

*clicks fingers*

topper75 · 09-10-2015 03:49PM

paleoperson wrote: »

If I was picked out on one of those shows I would say I felt nothing, I would say it was all nonsense. I would rather kill myself than play along with their lies.

Those demanding audiences up at the Hackney Empire can get nasty alright.

ElChe32 · 09-10-2015 03:49PM

Look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, the eyes....

3...2..1.. you're back in the room

09-10-2015 03:50PM

Turtwig wrote: »

Yes it's real but most common depictions of it on tv are bullsht. Think of it like crime procedural image enhancement techniques where they can identify a killer from the reflection in the victim's eye that was caught by a CCTV camera.

I love that CSI meme

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/2078832_700b.jpg

seamus · 09-10-2015 03:50PM

I think the general theory behind it, about a semi-sleep state where someone is suggestible, is pretty solid. We've all been in half-asleep states where we don't know if we're coming or going.

The only stage show I saw was in college. where the hypnotist does a few exercises with the audience to try and gauge who's most suggestible, then spent about ten minutes kicking people off the stage because he though they were taking the piss. Whether the people left up there were in on it themselves is hard to tell. None of those who ended up on stage were known to be messers or attention seekers, one of them was a pretty quiet guy. It would be pretty hard to get otherwise "normal" people to just turn on a performance like that in front of their classmates, no matter how much money was on offer.

In terms of getting people to relieve fears or quit smoking, a large part of that is just a modified kind of therapy session where someone chills the **** out and has a nice chat with an impartial 3rd party. That alone can be good enough.

Sofiztikated · 09-10-2015 03:51PM

It's bullshít.

But I'm a Libra, and so, a total skeptic.

2ndcoming · 09-10-2015 03:55PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

It's bullshít.

But I'm a Libra, and so, a total skeptic.

Haha. I think...

hatrickpatrick · 09-10-2015 06:32PM

Listen to "Jackpot: No Hands" with headphones and then decide for yourself

Firmly a believer after that experience

FelineOverLord · 09-10-2015 07:10PM

It's utter crap.

DareGod · 09-10-2015 07:12PM

Plenty of people have experienced positive results from hypnotherapy.

That is a fact which is not a matter of opinion nor is it up for debate.

Azalea · 10-10-2015 12:41AM

DareGod wrote: »

Plenty of people have experienced positive results from hypnotherapy.

That is a fact which is not a matter of opinion nor is it up for debate.

Yeah my best friend did give up the smokes (although went back on them after six months, but stopping smoking cold turkey was something he'd never have considered possible, let alone for six months). I wonder how it worked though - was it the placebo effect? The work he put in himself after? (They give you exercises to do - breathing and thinking patterns). I doubt it was just the hypnosis process.

Panthro · 10-10-2015 01:03AM

It's a load a balls.

(Keyword activated)

Bok....bok..... Bok.....bok awkk!!!

10-10-2015 01:07AM

It's actually true, but doesn't work on everyone. I don't mean the stuff you see on TV, but the actual professionals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHp6gclr8Vo

justchecked · 10-10-2015 01:23AM

It is not bull**** from what I can tell.

Why:

On America's got talent a stage hypnotist hypnotized one of the judges. This judges name was Howie Mandell.
Mr Mandell suffers/suffered chronic obsessive compulsive disorder.

This condition was evidenced well before this performer came into his life, or indeed the show even existed. He'd been treated for it and his family were familiar with it.

It was also mentioned in an interview with fellow judge Howard Stern some time previously.
Stern is about one of the most critical people in public media due to his small penis and I don't believe he would conspire, and put his reputation as a caller of bullsht on the line over something so small and inconsequential.

After being hypnotized Mandell can be seen performing acts his OCD would never have allowed him to such as shaking hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSZNnz9SM4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dFLXV9hs0

Eugene Norman · 10-10-2015 01:25AM

I don't get that people don't think stage hypnosis is fake. They are real people in the audience. Getting hypnotised.

10-10-2015 01:26AM

Is that true? Mandell is indeed a pretty famous germaphobe.

Eugene Norman · 10-10-2015 01:27AM

Hatless wrote: »

Yeah my best friend did give up the smokes (although went back on them after six months, but stopping smoking cold turkey was something he'd never have considered possible, let alone for six months). I wonder how it worked though - was it the placebo effect? The work he put in himself after? (They give you exercises to do - breathing and thinking patterns). I doubt it was just the hypnosis process.

Hmm. Since the placebo effect is a form of suggestion why wouldn't hypnosis also work.

Eugene Norman · 10-10-2015 01:39AM

I personally don't get hypnotised. Not at stage shows anyway where if asked to put my hands together and told they are stuck I routinely pry them apart and therefore never get picked. A friend of mine was hyponotised at a show we were at though. No plant he.

Here's an interesting question. Derren Brown was wondering in one of his books whether hypnotised people are just playing along or actually see what they are told. A friend of his (whom he routinely hypnotised via a phrase to think Derren was invisible) rang him up one day and said that he wished Derren hadn't done that trick again on him the day before in London. Derren hadn't been in London. His friend has heard his name being called out, turned around to see nobody, and assumed Derren was playing his game.

So Brown wonders if in fact if this guy really doesn't see him under hypnosis and isn't just playing along. It obviously affects some people.

MarkY91 · 10-10-2015 02:06AM

Well a hypnotist made my brother speak Chinese, act like a jockey on a horse and other crazy stuff on stage when on holidays. I still find it ridicilous to believe but he was hypnotised.

Tarzana2 · 10-10-2015 02:43AM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

I don't get that people don't think stage hypnosis is fake.

This sentence hurts my face.

Is hypnosis real, or is it Bull****?

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