• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    Hypnosis absolutely works, but not on everyone, maybe only few, and not anything like people think. I’ve seen it done, copied it, got the same results on two different women. Maybe I’ll try my wife tonight! I could go on for awhile, but one test almost knocked me over, literally.

    Hypnotized my gf, copied the stage guy’s initial technique, told her she was stiff as a board, like a statue. Tipped her over and fuck me, barely caught her.

    Now if you think that’s bullshit, I’d invite you to replicate it any way you choose. But here’s the rub, your subject most hold perfectly still while held at a 45° angle to the floor. No muscle strain, no quivering, LOL, as if anyone can do that consciously.

    There was other amusing tricks. Told her Star Wars was playing on the wall. She happily watched for a couple of minutes, “So, what’s going on now?” She described a scene I had totally forgotten. I should mention this was in 1990, we had only seen it in theaters or a rare viewing on broadcast TV. None of us could afford a VCR. :)

    Or the time I took her back before she was born. OHHH NO! I was trying some Bridey Murphy shit, different times. She got confused looking, mumbled a little, suddenly spouted, “SNOO!” Startled hell out of me! We had no clue WTF that was. Later her sister related a story about a snow storm when she was 2 and that’s what she called it.

    Plenty of other anecdotes you may write off, but try the statue trick. See how it goes.

    EDIT: Back to the post above, hypnotism works exactly as OP describes. That is the exact way to get someone in a suggestible trance.

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        4 hours ago

        Absolutely not. I triggered a toddler memory, nothing more or less. Damned interesting.

        Oh! Shit. Sorry. You were looking to debunk me with some clever word twisting.

        “Yes! I brought her back to a time before she was BORN!”

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          3 hours ago

          I’m not trying to twist anything, and it was hardy clever. You merely said something impossible and was digging into it. I didn’t catch the reference.

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          1 day ago

          Since your brain takes on average 200ms to even process visual input, you’re, at a minimum, 200ms behind “true reality”. What’s your point? How is this at all relevant to the conversation?

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        Hypnosis is actually quite useful for digging up old memories that the subject doesn’t consciously remember.

        Edit: ITT a bunch of people who don’t know anything about hypnosis other than unrealistic depictions in media.

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          4 hours ago

          I’ve all but given up talking about it. Yes, it’s real. Yes, it works. No, not like Hollywood has shown us.

          I still find the “tipping” anecdote to be the most convincing. Guess you would have to experience it to believe. When the stage guy did it to her, him and his assistant placed her head on a chair with her ankles on another, and she was perfectly still and calm.

          We could put that down to stage tricks I missed, but having done similar IRL, well, I experienced it. Going to hypnotize my wife and video the thing.

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            1 day ago

            As it continues:

            She got confused looking, mumbled a little, suddenly spouted, “SNOO!” Startled hell out of me! We had no clue WTF that was. Later her sister related a story about a snow storm when she was 2 and that’s what she called it.

            My younger siblings were definitely aware of funny family anecdotes that happened before they were born. It’s not unreasonable that the memory she was recalling was a recounting of that story.