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Re: Hypnotism
I was "hypnotized" in college and in my opinion, the whole thing was fake. Here's how it went down:
It was similar to Cam's description. There were several hundred people watching the hypnotist (ie - performer) and about a dozen were brought onstage. I was one of those dozen. He "hypnotized" all of us, and began removing people until there were only 4 or 5 of us. I was one of those 4 or 5 and I faked "sleep" the entire time. When they woke me up, I was asked to tell a joke, but would forget the punchline. I went to the front and did as I was told, BUT I could have easily told the punchline. I believe many of the others were manipulated into the same thing.
There is clinical hypnotism, which might be different, but I believe this kind of "performance hypnotism" takes advantage of the mob mentality and gets the volunteers to play along and do stupid/funny things to amuse the crowd. That's why the weed out a bunch of people. Somehow they determine who is and who isn't playing along. It was a long time ago, so I can't remeber.
Overall, I think hypnotism is completely staged and entirely phony. At least in the manner that Cam and I experienced.
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