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I've never done a search about hypnotism and quite frankly, I don't think it would be to my advantage, so I'm just throwing this out into FReeperland to hear what others have to say.

IS hypnotism a valid science, or what?

. . . . . and doesn't a subject need to be of a particular mind ?

Can just anyone be hypnotized ?

1 posted on 06/24/2024 6:34:04 AM PDT by knarf
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Not everyone can be hypnotized.

It is real, though......................


2 posted on 06/24/2024 6:35:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Can just anyone be hypnotized ?

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Interesting theory.
I had imagined they were prepping him with lots of practice sessions, using a lot of repetition and even quizzing him on answers to see if they can give him practice answering something unexpected or not in order.

But aside from the fact that I have been for years half serious/half jesting for years that they are dosing Joe on adderall (and the media has only recently started to catch on), I think your theory has merits. I wouldn’t call it hypnotism per se, but inducing a trance, or altering his mental state so that he is more lucid.


3 posted on 06/24/2024 6:39:44 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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It’s real but you can’t hypnotize someone who is comatose, or in this case, a vegetable.


4 posted on 06/24/2024 6:40:48 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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I’ve done some stage hand work for a hypnotist and saw the show a couple or a few times but never could pin it down.


6 posted on 06/24/2024 6:42:44 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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You’ve never met my ex or her 5 ex or her other 4 ex husband’s. Yes, hypnosis is real.


8 posted on 06/24/2024 6:44:24 AM PDT by Ikeon (Your God is too small. )
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The San Diego VA uses hypnotism, in the same therapist’s office where the “coexist” poster is hanging on her wall.


9 posted on 06/24/2024 6:45:43 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Stare at this image for 15 seconds. Don't blink. When I snap my fingers, you'll be clucking like a chicken...


10 posted on 06/24/2024 6:45:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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Hypnotism is a valid scientific treatment.

It has its limitations.

It is potentially very dangerous.

I say that having been trained in both clinical and stage hypnotism. I no longer use clinical hypnotism and have never used stage hypnotism, even though I trained to understand how it works.

If I were to write a book on the strange events that happened when I was using hypnosis, it would qualify as a horror story.


11 posted on 06/24/2024 6:49:15 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Is Hypnotism real ?, knarf wrote:
I've never done a search about hypnotism and quite frankly, I don't think it would be to my advantage, so I'm just throwing this out into FReeperland to hear what others have to say.

IS hypnotism a valid science, or what?

. . . . . and doesn't a subject need to be of a particular mind ?

Can just anyone be hypnotized ?

There is carnival hypnotism and there is medical hypnotism. Some carnival-type practitioners are good and can hypnotize people. A teenage friend said she was at a fair and the school's macho athlete was on stage, and was hypnotized to nurse a 'baby' (doll). So he looked around cautiously and slipped the doll under his shirt. I was skeptical and the young lady kept saying "HE would NEVER do that! NEVER!" Others have similar stories.

I've been told that you could never use hypnosis to make someone do something they would otherwise not do. Back to the example of the teenage macho man, he apparently wouldn't withhold food from a hungry baby, and yet he accepted the false reality that he could physically nurse a child.

Medical hypnotism is more structured in the study and implementation of the technique. Not everyone can be hypnotized - a common phrase I've heard is, 'you have to be suggestible to be hypnotized.'

Because Biden is drugged, he would likely be suggestible and therefore could be hypnotized. However, he would experience the same cognitive issues with speaking coherently, maintaining his place in a conversation, forgetting and transposing information and yelling about 'dog faced pony soldiers' etc. A hypnotist could not make Joe function cognitively any better than he (doesn't) function now.


13 posted on 06/24/2024 6:51:18 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Not as real as science
16 posted on 06/24/2024 6:52:57 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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Read later.


18 posted on 06/24/2024 6:53:42 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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It’s real. It’s a cognitive thing, relaxation. Trust was an issue for me.

My fear of hypnosis was thinking maybe I’d bark like a dog for a day and fought against it so took a bit of time.


24 posted on 06/24/2024 7:01:03 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a form of advanced hypnosis. It is extensively used in sales and many other communication-based endeavors. Tony Robbins was trained in it and the Clinton brought him in for seminars occasionally. Obama was trained in it.


25 posted on 06/24/2024 7:03:02 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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I hypnotize myself from a youtube video. Oh, it’s real.


27 posted on 06/24/2024 7:13:08 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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You will feel very sleepy...


30 posted on 06/24/2024 7:21:31 AM PDT by old school
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Hypnotized
by Fleetwood Mac
1974

It’s the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window

It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there’s no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

Now it’s not a meaningless question
To ask if they’ve been and gone
I remember a talk about North Carolina
And a strange, strange pond

You see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man’s hand ever made that land
Then I think it would’ve showed

That’s why it seems like a dream
Got me hypnotized

And I know that’s right

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

They say there’s a place down in Mexico
Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
And he don’t need an airplane or some kind of engine
And he never will

Now you know it’s a meaningless question
To ask if those stories are right
‘Cause what matters most is the feeling
You get when you’re hypnotized

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

Got me hypnotized


36 posted on 06/24/2024 7:32:25 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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In society today where people no longer need to think, but just follow directions, they lose their ability to THINK. Using MapQuest when driving, using the cell phone as a calculator rather than math in your head....

This sets a person up to hypnosis.

During hypnosis, a person loses discernment and is highly suggestable. Trump Derangement Syndrome is just one of many examples.


37 posted on 06/24/2024 7:36:47 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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An author Lauent Guyenot in a film about the 1968 assassination of RFK Sr, “Israel & The Assassinations of the Kennedy Brothers: A Documentary By Laurent Guyénot” notes evidence that Sirhan Sirhan was manipulatively hypnotized based on a technique abortively employed by the Israelis to get Yasser Arafat.

https://youtu.be/a37FM542MXE?feature=shared


41 posted on 06/24/2024 8:04:32 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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It is not a debate.

It is a scripted question and answer session.


43 posted on 06/24/2024 8:15:35 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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Years ago, we had a party about thirty friends. We hired a hypnotist to hypnotize volunteers, which more than half agreed. It was silly stuff so this one gal, her name was Susan was told her name was no longer Susan, it was Linda and then said, “by the way Linda, you don’t have any clothes on” immediately she started covering her body with her hands, ran to the bathroom crying. The hypnotist woke her up and she was fine. For years afterwards, the other people that had been there, including myself would accidentally refer to her as Linda.


44 posted on 06/24/2024 8:17:05 AM PDT by Toespi ( )
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