Do you think hypnotism works?

Yes I do belief hypnotism work. At least it works for certain people. If people are willing to go into hypnosis they can become hypnotised.

There are examples that show that people will do things they normally wouldn't. It's probably not possible to make people do things that are completely unethical. If you are not willing to go into hypnosis you will not go into hypnosis.

I'm not so sure if it can solve any personal problems or change your behaviour permanently. I think you'll need to do more then that.

I do believe it works but like arjo said, it doesn't work for everyone. I saw a demonstration once. My brother's high school class was very small (small community).

For part of their graduation week, they hired a hypnotist to come in and try to hypnotize the kids. Since these were all teenagers, it was pretty easy to tell who was faking it and who was really hypnotized. I think out of the class of about 40 or so kids, maybe 3 or 4 were actually able to be hypnotized.

One of the things that the hypnotist asked them to visualize was him naked (he was a rather round man - not one you might want to picture naked) and I still remember one of the hypnotized girl's reaction. When she opened her eyes after the suggestion, she screamed and hid her eyes. It was really funny.

Anyway, from that experience I have to say that I do think hypnotists work but just not for everyone. Now, whether you can use a hypnotist to stop smoking or stop eating excessively, I don't know about that.

True story... my first husband (he is deceased) he had an uncle who was a heavy smoker.. anyhow he fell asleep infront of the tv (england BBC) and later when he woke up he went to light a cig, he gagged and was disgusted, this happened a few times, anyhow as it came to be he found out that he had fallen asleep when a show of a hypnotist stopping people from smoking came on tv. He never did smoke again, and was actually mad because he liked smoking.

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