One of the craziest things I’ve seen in person was a crowd of people getting hypnotized. I knew 100+ people in the crowd so I was more convinced it wasn’t staged.
I was in New Zealand, and it was a ~300 person crowd inside of a college classroom.
If you wanted to participate, the hypnotist did a 5 minute “meditation” for the entire audience. It was like “you are very relaaaaxed, you are letting everything gooooooo…”
Nothing crazy, felt like a wind down in a yoga class.
Then he asked if people wanted to come on stage to see if they were under hypnosis. He took 20 people on stage at a time, they all sat in chairs. He did another meditation for them with their eyes closed, maybe 1 or 2 minutes.
Then he told all of them to go to sleep. Everyone “acted” asleep, but some people looked ACTUALLY asleep.
He’d quickly go down the row of seated “asleep” people and pull on their arm really hard.
Some of them stayed in their chairs because they weren’t really asleep and their body caught them, others COMPLETELY FELL OUT OF THEIR CHAIRS IN A HEAP!
It was so weird because these people were falling in all sorts of contorted ways…..these mf’ers were OUT! People were genuinely concerned like “ummm are they ok?!?”
The people that fell to the floor were his new subjects. Literally EVERYTHING he told them to do, they did without question.
I knew people in this crowd. I knew the people getting hypnotized, so this wasn’t some pre-staged thing.
I saw a timid shy girl act like a rockstar whenever he played the song “Teenage Dirtbag.” Later we asked her, she didn’t remember anything…like not ONE thing about this whole event.
Another guy the hypnotist made him forget the number 8. Later we asked him about it and he genuinely had no idea what we were talking about. We showed him videos of him on stage, and he actually got really upset and rejected the idea this ever happened.
I couldn’t believe how effective it was.
I understand that hypnosis is probably just the person being susceptible to suggestion in that state, but the degree to which is worked was unreal. I had seen this before on TV but always assumed it was partially staged.
The hypnotist made people do all sorts of insane things I doubt they would do in a normal setting.
He claimed they truly wouldn’t do anything they didn’t want to do….but I dunno, these people were doing some pretty crazy things.
People were crying. People were confused. People were acting like chickens. People were speaking in Tongue. People thought they were flying.
When the show ended he took all 8 subjects he was toying with and “woke them up.” None of them remembered anything.
He said it would take up to an hour for this to completely wear off, and he was right.
Some of the people I knew were acting supppeer strange after it was done, and getting pissed off that people were saying they acted like a chicken or a rockstar….because in their mind this truly didn’t happen. But on our phones we had video proof, and it would just confuse the hell out of them when we showed them videos.
We genuinely were concerned about 2 friends that were acting really strange, to where we found the hypnotist after the show and asked if everything was ok. Like he said, within 30 minutes or an hour they went back to normal.
I tell this story because it just seems so….un-believable. This is stuff I always thought was partially staged, but seeing it in person was amazing.
It almost felt like magic was real or something.
