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Watching a hypnotist live was….insane

May 10, 2024 by Neville

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.

OG Blogs had pictures more in-depth thoughts.

March 25, 2024 by Neville

This recent personal blog post from Sam Parr is reminiscent of OG blogs where you just shared stuff for the sake of sharing and remembering. They contain pictures and more in-depth thoughts.

See the article → theantimba.com/a-weekend-to-remember

I miss this form of blogging about events!

My first blog was called Neville’s Financial Blog, and I miss aspects of the original blogging days like people doing full re-caps of events like this!

The downside of these types of posts is they take a long time to create. I’m hoping in the near future you can just select a few photos and AI will create these posts for you.

Malibu House Home Gym

July 15, 2020 by Neville

Since gyms aren’t open, I made a home gym at the Malibu place.

It was literally 100% full of crap, which I put all in the back, and then used some random chairs and rugs in the place to make it nice.

Been using it everyday, and you get a free audience of people driving on the PCH looking and honking at you 😂

Hanging out in Malibu

July 13, 2020 by Neville

Normally I like to leave Austin for the summers, but with Covid those plans were bit hard to make.

So for a month me and my buddy Noah Kagan rented a house on the beach in Malibu.

With the uncertainty of Covid, I didn’t want to get stranded in California, so I drove my car from Austin to California.

The ride was actually pretty great, very scenic, and surprisingly easy!

 

I drove for 8 hours from Austin to El Paso and stayed in a hotel for the night.

Next drive was 12 hours from El Paso, TX. to Malibu, CA.

Made it to the famous PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) where the house is in great time.

(Plz don’t tell the cops my vehicle inspection sticker is expired)!

The house is literally ON the PCH….it’s kind of weird to have your car parked two feet away from an active highway.

The house has it’s own private beach area. The tide comes in and out throughout the day, making the beach either big or small depending on the tide.

The roommates!

Outside view of the house:

The main reason I leave for summer is to escape the Austin heat. Already a great decision, the weather is like this every single day here 😁

HustleCon East 2018 NYC

December 7, 2018 by Neville

Pre HustleCon East
apt
K’s penthouse from outside
jukebox
room
Nick Gray
Living Room windows
View from room balcony
no one showed up :-P

SF Weekend for McGregor Fight House Party

October 7, 2018 by Neville

Skipped over to SF for a quick McGregor fight party at a friends new house in San Ramon

TravelCon 2018 Notes

September 23, 2018 by Neville

My good friend Nomadic Matt threw a conference called TravelCon which I attended and spoke at.

I went on right after Ryan Holiday and the talk went extremely well. Part of the talk was on how to create timeless content and re-vamp old posts, and part of the talk showed how I turned my whole talk & slides into this post on blog content strategy –>

Here’s some of my notes:

travelcon 2018 notes neville

Just hanging
Rooftop party @ HomeAway
Sam Parr speaking
Prepping for my talk on stage
Party @ Belmont
View from Fairmont
Buds
Fairmont View
Brent speaking
Ryan Holiday talking
Sam speaking
Brent’s talk about book marketing
Matt speaking
Ballroom
Andrew Warner of Mixergy hosted a Whiskey Night (at a diff conference in The Fairmont)
Hanging out on stage before talk

Baby Bathwater 2018 Conference Notes

March 18, 2018 by Lesley A

 

Mark Bradley-notes

 

Andrew Warner -notes

 

Cameron Herald-notes

 

B_B_ Re- branding-notes

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Bday

November 17, 2017 by Neville

Bday today in SF!

Starting off strong with some work and pups:

Then new Apple Spaceship campus tour at 2pm.

Then Rollerskating!

SF for Content School and ConCon

November 13, 2017 by Neville

Been hanging out in SF for a few weeks in SOMA:

1.) Did a Content School.

2.) Speaking at ConCon on Nov. 16th.

3.) My bday is on Friday!

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