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[Grildon Tundy]

Something I've always wondered, and also always wondered why there doesn't seem to be a definite answer.

Saw this on Twitter, and it brought it up again:



I had a stage hypnotist come to my college. One participant was told he would pop out of hypnosis once he left the archway to the theater we were in. So most of us audience members waited for him, and the moment he hit the archway, it's like he regained consciousness and ran off in embarrassment. He was either a surprisingly good actor, or it was real.

What do you guys think?

 

[p_xavier]

I did it once, fake.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think Hypnosis is real, but I would never go under it.

 

[Connificent]

Just as real as magic tricks

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I did it once, fake.

So what happened? Did you play along?

 

[p_xavier]

So what happened? Did you play along?

Yeah I mean you have kinda pressure to fake it. It would be embarrassing for everyone really.

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[jason10mm]

Yeah I mean you have kinda pressure to fake it. It would be embarrassing for everyone really.

That's my experience as well. Tom Deluca came to my college and I got picked. It's an interesting experience but it was a lot more of coerced playacting than any kind of movie-style mind control.

I think those guys are just really good at knowing how far people will go and push the ones who are more open to doing silly things. But Deluca didn't really do stuff like make people stiff as a board and get walked across, lay on a bed of nails, hold an ember of coal or anything like that from what I remember.

 

[bitbydeath]

Yeah I mean you have kinda pressure to fake it. It would be embarrassing for everyone really.

Why go along with it?
Do you get paid?

 

[jason10mm]

Why go along with it?
Do you get paid?

Because after the show chicks will come up to you to ask you questions about it.

And for at least an hour you can blame "post-hypnotic suggestion" for any misdeeds you might commit

 

[p_xavier]

Because after the show chicks will come up to you to ask you questions about it.

And for at least an hour you can blame "post-hypnotic suggestion" for any misdeeds you might commit

But this.

 

[SirKicksalot]

The video looks like that chicken fear response.
Showmen can trick people into many things but I doubt this extreme response is real.

 

[Rentahamster]

So what happened? Did you play along?

Similar effect to faith healers and martial artists using energy blasts.

 

[poppabk]

Fake as shit. This looks like a plant even, not just someone enjoying their 5 minutes in the spotlight.

 

[Wildebeest]

People are different. Some people might be suggestable and be chill with it but others might just be very self conscious through the whole thing and play along because they are embarrassed and don't want to ruin the party.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Its real. You have to be accepting of being put under or it's not going to work. My friend and I just went up on stage during college when the perverted hypnotist came to UMass.

Several people had no idea where or how they had gotten back stage when he brought them back.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I think there's a small cohort of people who actually are highly susceptible & suggestible where it truly "works" in that they go into an altered mental state, others who want to play along, and people like me who probably wouldn't volunteer in the first place and would be too self-conscious to play along if I did.

 

[SidViscous]

If it were real you would have crimes mentioning it, you don't, so it's fake.