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Posted: 5/27/2015 10:56:32 PM EDT
Poll incoming, a simple yes or no.
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Psych lecturer in college tried to hypnotize us. All I could think was "when will this bitch stop her blabbering?"
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My son, my son.
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131011094955/conan/images/0/09/Thulsa_Doom_(Hypnosis_Stare).jpg |
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As a guided meditative state? Yes.
As in barking like a dog and taking your clothes off, because someone said the trigger word? Fuck no. |
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I've seen it done to other people I know, on more than one occasion....but , like, they're idiots and all. I don't think I can be hypnotized. G'head...try....I dare ya'
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I did thoroughly enjoy two movies where hypnotism was the basis for the story:
Office Space and that Kevin Bacon horror movie. |
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+1, but a significant portion of GD believes in supernatural phenomena of one kind or another. Everything from Bigfoot to Miracles to Demons has a believer here, it is no surprise that the herp derp extends to hypnotism. |
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There is a hypnotist here, they did a Q&A thread awhile back. I was shocked that insurance could be billed for hypnotism.
I think it's quackery at best. |
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"Gonna find my baby gonna hold her tight, grab some afternoon delight..."
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It is funny (and very sad) that there are people here who believe in various types of magic.
eta- 'ponchsox' thread |
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I know a dude that tried unsuccessfully to quit smoking and got hypnotized. He never touched another one, and wouldn't go around people smoking. It works on some folks. |
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No.. Well yes.. Look at our country. you said a simple, " Yes or No"
Iam going with, YES. |
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My oldest was about 10 and we took him to a hypnotist for warts.As the guy was almost done my son opened his eyes and smiled, he was faking going under... pissed the guy off... but a week later all the warts started falling off. I used it to sleep better in the 80s with tapes and it helped and cut my stress down. I also had a friend do a regression, he was an amateur, but real good. I was under. The person has to let them selves go under and it creates an altered state of mind
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Some dude on AGT got Howie Mandel to shake hands with him and some other people. Up until that point I was on the fence. Now I believe in it. http://youtu.be/f9dFLXV9hs0 View Quote |
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Some dude on AGT got Howie Mandel to shake hands with him and some other people. Up until that point I was on the fence. Now I believe in it. http://youtu.be/f9dFLXV9hs0 Good for ratings |
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Some dude on AGT got Howie Mandel to shake hands with him and some other people. Up until that point I was on the fence. Now I believe in it. http://youtu.be/f9dFLXV9hs0 He probably flipped his shit when he saw the show later. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/howie-mandel-public-obsessive-compulisve-disorder-fear-germs/story?id=9153966 |
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Some dude on AGT got Howie Mandel to shake hands with him and some other people. Up until that point I was on the fence. Now I believe in it. http://youtu.be/f9dFLXV9hs0 Good for ratings If it was something that no one knew about it might be a gimmick but howie has not shaken anyone's hands in 8 or more years. |
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If it was something that no one knew about it might be a gimmick but howie has not shaken anyone's hands in 8 or more years. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Some dude on AGT got Howie Mandel to shake hands with him and some other people. Up until that point I was on the fence. Now I believe in it. http://youtu.be/f9dFLXV9hs0 Good for ratings If it was something that no one knew about it might be a gimmick but howie has not shaken anyone's hands in 8 or more years. |
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Hypnosis is something you can observe, so it would be hart do argue it doesn't exist.
When you say "believe in" do you mean like, "do you think it can make you stop smoking," or "do you think comedians can instantly knock you out and act like a chicken?" |
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Quoted: Hypnosis is something you can observe, so it would be hart do argue it doesn't exist. When you say "believe in" do you mean like, "do you think it can make you stop smoking," or "do you think comedians can instantly knock you out and act like a chicken?" View Quote |
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We were going to hire a hypnotist as the entertainment for our squadron Christmas party until our Flight Surgeon heard about it and told us that if you are ever hypnotized, you will be removed from flight status.
So, while many may think it's bogus, apparently the Air Force doesn't (at the time, anyway). |
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WTF?
people still think its some kind of parlor trick? you know that feeling when your half asleep and half awake; where you are pretty much asleep but you can still hear things going on around you? thats almost exactly what hypnosis is, and feels like. |
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We were going to hire a hypnotist as the entertainment for our squadron Christmas party until our Flight Surgeon heard about it and told us that if you are ever hypnotized, you will be removed from flight status. So, while many may think it's bogus, apparently the Air Force doesn't (at the time, anyway). View Quote The AF figured if you were gullible/stupid enough to fall for that shit, you shouldn't be flying. |
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My college psych teacher was a hypnotist. I was not impressed, but could see how it works on some people. It's all about suggestion, self-control, and social expectations.
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My college psych teacher was a hypnotist. I was not impressed, but could see how it works on some people. It's all about suggestion, self-control, and social expectations. It seems like it works on simpletons? People who are "suggestible" aka gullible or stupid, one or the other. |
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As a guided meditative state? Yes. As in barking like a dog and taking your clothes off, because someone said the trigger word? Fuck no. View Quote I'll go with this since the question is not well-defined. I "believe in hypnosis" much like I "believe in meditation"; I'm confident that it exists as a phenomenon. Can it be practiced, experienced, and observed? Yes. Can you benefit from it? Maybe. Is it magic or mystical in some way? No. Fiction portrays the phenomenon about as well as that of a "silencer" (which is to say "complete mischaracterization"). |
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Yes. It works..... If you let it. No one can make you do something you don't want to do with it. It's not like you're stuck in a trance. But if you let your mind go.... Just run with and the hypnotist knows what they're doing then yes, it works.
I had a guy convince me he had tied a balloon to my wrist and it was pulling my arm in the air..... It really felt like there was a balloon pulling my arm in the air. If I just let go, my arm would lift up. Of course I could have said no..... But it was kinda cool to feel the mental suggestion work. |
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+1, but a significant portion of GD believes in supernatural phenomena of one kind or another. Everything from Bigfoot to Miracles to Demons has a believer here, it is no surprise that the herp derp extends to hypnotism. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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pseudoscience Along with polygraph tests. +1, but a significant portion of GD believes in supernatural phenomena of one kind or another. Everything from Bigfoot to Miracles to Demons has a believer here, it is no surprise that the herp derp extends to hypnotism. To be fair, Bigfoot, if real, would not be supernatural. |
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I was hypnotized in a group demonstration. I thought it hadn't worked until I got a command to look at my feet and found myself in two places at once: lying flat on the floor, and sitting up to see them. I was really still on the floor.
The feeling was like the first time I fired a handgun, a revolver in the classic one hand stance. Pull the trigger, and suddenly my arm is pointing skyward and I hadn't moved it. Had to think and move the gun back to point at the target. Arfcom demonstrates its shortcomings once again. Experience. Education. Willingness to learn. |
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