Just back from a hypnotist show. My first. Of couse one always thinks it’s a scam. But I knew one of the people hypnotized and she isn’t the type of person pretending. It is amazing how this happens. I spoke briefly to one other one and he thought that he has been sleeping deeply the whole time.
What do you think about hypnosis?
Fun!
I learned how to lucid dream thanks to a hypnosis tape which i would listen to again and again
Hypnosis works
It relys on the imagination. And the imagination is POWERFUL as I am sure you know
There are people who are more hypnotizable; that is why these hypnotists will often do some preliminary thing to determine how hypnotizable someone is
I have heard cases of people getting blisters from holding an imagined hot object
The mind-body link is insanely interrelated
It seems to work essentially by the Hypnotee (the one who is Hypnotizes) gives permission to the Hypnotist...so it doesn't seem to create something that isn't there but rather works with what is already there?
I agree with those who think that the Orange Pimple uses hypnotist techniques. Words are quite powerful, despite them being, by themselves, meaningless sounds or symbols
Norman Vincent Peale was a very successful hypnotist. He is the founder of a huge USA concept the Power of Positive Thinking. One can self-hypnotize (for good and ill--it can be said that the Orange Pimple has hypnotized himself too much lol)
NBA Basketball players use aform of self hypnosis. Before a game they imagine themselves sinking hoops and so on. Their ability to do so increases in the game.
People have been able to use hypnosis to change habits. I was able to learn how to lucid dream and also to in real time predict conversations (not intentional -- I gained the ability for a finite amount of time after a few sessions with this educator my dad intro'd me to -- my family was exposed to very catholic tastes...that is in diverse...)
I have been to a few hypnosis celebrity events. Reveen is the most famous. Early on when I was discovering nightclubbing they had a hypnotist and he was an err...real "charmer"

in that he mass hypnotized the men to have their groins grow and grow while the women to have their chests do the same and I was concerned that was going to happen to me (my chest) so I was glad I hadn't been hypnotized...
Also we still don't grok how Placebo and Nocebo work...it could have something to do with our imagination and hypnosis...
Any aftereffects you notice?