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Pickwick High
Aug 4, 2019

They call me Nutse
When I was in college I bought a few books on hypnotism and learned how to do it. My friend Andrew at the time was a willing victim of my hypnotising skills and me and our friends used to make him get up to all sorts.

I made him think he was an iguana in the restroom and he climbed up onto the thin top of the cubicle and wouldn't come down for 10 mins while we all watched with baited breath

I got him to see everyone naked in college for a few minutes

He got drunk of a pint of water I'd suggested was vodka

But my favourite one was on the train - he commuted 40 miles every day on the train and when he was sitting in the carriage I waved my hands over his eyes and said "sleep". He went bunder so I told him that on the train all the way to the end station would be a gremlin out of the movie Gremlins and it would annoy him all the way home. The next day he was a bit pissed at me he said this gremlin was swinging from the rails and jumping on the seats going "raa raa raa" and he could hear it even through his headphones. Eventually he decided to jump off at a station - the gremlin followed - and then he jumped back on just before the doors closed. The gremlin got back on the carriage next stop.

Anyway those are my hypnosis stories. Now goons, you are feeling sleepy


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HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018
My next door neighbor was a hypnotist who took it incredibly seriously and would rant to me about about fake hypnotists all the time if he caught me walking into my place. Also he was super into selling and eating powdered placenta and he would go to the hospital for spare placenta and I think they would give them to him lol. Kind of sad he moved that dude as entertaining as hell.

CountryMatters
Apr 8, 2009

IT KEEPS HAPPENING
Hypnosis is bullshit so congrats on your stories about playing pretend with your retarded friends

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Whenever you see a hypnotist swinging his pocket watch in front of your face it's actually his dick. Don't get sleepy.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
Scott Adams thinks he's a hypnotist, which is all the proof anyone should need that it's fake

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer
i saw a porn with hypnotism once

but its was kinda lame cuz the hypnotized person just sorta laid around/did what they were told without emotion

i'm in it for the passion, op, that's why i only watch hot glueing trans feet videos

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
its loving fake as poo poo and the people who do it are just going along for the ride cause they dont want to cause a fuss. go into a tribal village and try and hypnotize some people without telling them what's happening and they'll just look at you like a fool then murder you with forks

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
I saw a live hypnotism show at college where they mass hypnotized like 15-20 people and you could tell it was fake as poo poo because anyone who wasn't "hypnotized" (i.e. not playing along) was immediately rushed off stage by like 3-4 stage hands

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!
Somehow, my mom used hypnotherapy to quit drinking and it was the only thing that worked for her to quit.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic it was really quite hypnotic...

cinni
Oct 17, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
My dad would tell me that he learned hypnotism in college and offers to try it on me but I don't want to hurt his feelings by not playing along. I love my dad :kiddo:

Chuds McGreedy
Aug 26, 2007

Jumanji

CharlestonJew posted:

I saw a live hypnotism show at college where they mass hypnotized like 15-20 people and you could tell it was fake as poo poo because anyone who wasn't "hypnotized" (i.e. not playing along) was immediately rushed off stage by like 3-4 stage hands

:same:

I watched one at a renn faire and these two girls at the end of the line of volunteers kept losing their poo poo because this nerdy guy kept resting his head in the crotch of the guy next to him every time they went under.

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

CharlestonJew posted:

I saw a live hypnotism show at college where they mass hypnotized like 15-20 people and you could tell it was fake as poo poo because anyone who wasn't "hypnotized" (i.e. not playing along) was immediately rushed off stage by like 3-4 stage hands

We are hypnotized every single day. In the media we consume, in the things we learn, the products we buy, the foods we eat, the people who voted for Trump. Everyone is suceptible to hypnotism, but not everyone can be hypnotized.

As far as "real" hypnotism goes, only those who are subconsiously ready to hypnotism should be attempted to be hypnotized. That's why stage hypnotists ask who wants to be hypnotized, and push skeptics off the stage because they can't be hypnotized. It has nothing to do with being a sham or "pretending".

If you notice stage hypnotists take 10 minutes of speech or so to get you to focus and then they ask who wants to be hypnotized, by that time those who can be hypnotized are already entranced. Sometimes you'll find people in the audience doing the same things that people on the stage are doing.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen

MageMage posted:

We are hypnotized every single day. In the media we consume, in the things we learn, the products we buy, the foods we eat, the people who voted for Trump. Everyone is suceptible to hypnotism, but not everyone can be hypnotized.

As far as "real" hypnotism goes, only those who are subconsiously ready to hypnotism should be attempted to be hypnotized. That's why stage hypnotists ask who wants to be hypnotized, and push skeptics off the stage because they can't be hypnotized. It has nothing to do with being a sham or "pretending".

If you notice stage hypnotists take 10 minutes of speech or so to get you to focus and then they ask who wants to be hypnotized, by that time those who can be hypnotized are already entranced. Sometimes you'll find people in the audience doing the same things that people on the stage are doing.

So you're saying it's fake and anyone who gets hypnotized is playing along, cool

KillerJunglist
May 22, 2007

Lion of Judah protect you, Jah be praised.
Hypnotism is like improv but instead of taking suggestions from the audience you take suggestions from a douchebag with a nice watch.

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
It would be cool if you went to a stage hypnosis show and volunteered to be part of the group and instead of doing whatever stupid bullshit that guy comes up with you pretend to get stage fright and just stand there pissing and making GBS threads your pants (on purpose!!) and then you're helped off stage while visibly shaking and crying and everyone feels real bad.

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

CharlestonJew posted:

So you're saying it's fake and anyone who gets hypnotized is playing along, cool

Essentially, yes.

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY
*Unless you're in Project Monarch.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Some people being really euphoric itt

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
I cannot be held responsible your honor, I have been hypnotized to make terrible posts.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

once when the heat was on for my improbably thematic crime spree, i hypnotized a bunch of scientists to spout nonsense like "hypnotism is just a stage act" and "you can't be hypnotized if you don't want to" which like, lol, can't believe how well that worked

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
My sister once did a thing where I closed my eyes and she clapped either side of my head for like 10 minutes and then said she was tying a rope to my wrists and that the other end was tied to the back of a truck and then she said the truck was driving away and my arms went up automatically.

I was about 8

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I kind of feel like all of reality is a sort of hypnosis, and when you actually reach clarity of thought or vision the tears fall down anyways.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

i saw a smokin hot babe with big tity honker's and she hypnotized me into a boner

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

i saw a smokin hot babe with big tity honker's and she hypnotized me into a boner

Niiiice

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

i saw a smokin hot babe with big tity honker's and she hypnotized me into a boner

The proper term is titnotized.

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
My boner is gone if someone snaps their fingers or claps their hands. I can't even lovingly slap a lady on the bum.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
You guys don't know how lucky you are.:smith:

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

CharlestonJew posted:

I saw a live hypnotism show at college where they mass hypnotized like 15-20 people and you could tell it was fake as poo poo because anyone who wasn't "hypnotized" (i.e. not playing along) was immediately rushed off stage by like 3-4 stage hands

That's your cue to scream out "IVE JUST BEEN HYPNOTIZED TO... EAT... THAT... rear end!!!," and pounce on the hypnotist so they reconsider their egregious charlatanism.

DrHammond
Nov 8, 2011


I love stage hypnotism shows, I've played the hypnotee in around 8 different shows with 3 different hypnotists. Of course it's complete bullshit, but in my youth I was a summer camp counselor so standing on a stage and making an utter fool of myself is something of a specialty of mine. Getting up on stage is easy, just stand up real straight, raise your hand up high, and (this part is key) give a big old shiteating grin that just screams "I've got self confidence and will totally go along with whatever bullshit you want to throw down lady!" Never failed me once.

Best bit: Secret agent armed with a big-ol-supersoaker and a mandate to protect the stage from a passing monorail, but I'm holding the supersoaker backwards.

Worst bit: Chippendale dancer (huurrr he's dancing sexy its funny)

Right at the start of any stage hypnosis show ever, right after they "put you out" they'll have the whole stage do SOMETHING physical and wacky, just go all out during that part and you'll get a fun bit to play.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I heard a megawatt transformer blow out earlier this evening. I think it broke my hypnosis.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
will some tell who ever keeps uploading sissy hypno videos its not real. It really kills my boner.

CountryMatters
Apr 8, 2009

IT KEEPS HAPPENING
Hypnotism is just looking for attention seekers who are desperate to dance like a monkey in front of everyone, then giving them an excuse to do so
It is deeply pathetic for everyone involved

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:


The guys calling it fake are misunderstanding what it actually is. It's not magically compelling you to do things against your will. The best way I can think to describe it is: if you're open to it, the hypnotist's words take the place of your inner monologue while your "self" goes silent.

Good Ol Filbert
Jun 10, 2019

You got me so hypnotized
The way your body rollin' round and round
That booty keep bumping, titties just bouncin' up and down
You got me so hypnotized
The way your body rolling round and round
That booty keep bumping, titties just bouncin' up and down

:dance:

I've never been hypnotized, and I don't believe in it, but it's entertaining to watch. When I watch Penn & Teller, I feel like it drags a bit when the contestant does it, but appreciate the hard work put into their bit

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Ratios and Tendency posted:

The guys calling it fake are misunderstanding what it actually is. It's not magically compelling you to do things against your will. The best way I can think to describe it is: if you're open to it, the hypnotist's words take the place of your inner monologue while your "self" goes silent.

So it's just playing along. Got it.

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
You can hypnotize a chicken pretty easily in various ways. I don't see why a person couldn't similarly be hypnotized by holding them down or spinning around a bit.

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:


Who What Now posted:

So it's just playing along. Got it.

I don't think you have.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009
We had a hypnotist come into our high school once for an assembly. He was selecting volunteers and my friends pushed me into the floor. So he selected me. Sat me next to my crush. He tried to hypnotize us and told my crush and I to act like we were an old married couple. She went with it. It was in the top 3 high school memories.

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Pickwick High
Aug 4, 2019

They call me Nutse
My favorite hypnotist is Derren Brown who poopoos any psychic stuff and instead uses suggestion and misdirection to imitate it. He exposes a lot of what charlatans at seances did in the late 19th/early 20th century

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