Surely you have heard more than one story about how people stopped to give a gypsy a change, and then found that they lost every single large bills from their own wallet. So, all this is not a myth, but a harsh reality: hypnosis really exists, and some representatives of a free people own it to one degree or another. But how exactly do they hypnotize passers-by and who is more often chosen as a victim? Let's figure it out.
What is gypsy hypnosis
Gypsy hypnosis is a special phenomenon that is more similar to the methods of swindlers and swindlers than to the actions of professional hypnotists. Unlike those who have been on real hypnosis sessions, most gypsy victims do not go into a trance state, but rather succumb to suggestion. That is why outwardly these people look quite adequate, but later they cannot remember the details of communication with the "hypnotist" and the order of their own actions. It was not for nothing that the victims of street hypnosis, who thoughtlessly emptying their accounts in bank branches, did not arouse any suspicion among their employees.
Who is chosen as a victim
Most often, the victims of gypsies are impressionable people with an unstable psyche, gullible, depressed, confused and upset. It is to such women (and most of the people robbed by gypsies are precisely women) that fraudsters approach. They start a conversation with the victim, focusing on their ability to "clairvoyance": they claim that they see all her troubles, and then ask for a symbolic payment (for example, 50 rubles) for fortune telling and "real" help.
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How to hypnotize
Psychologists believe that the main thing is not to come into direct contact with the gypsy. Seeing that a person is ready for a conversation, the fraudster will "turn off" the victim's left brain hemisphere - the very one that is responsible for critical perception of reality, increasing the load on the right one, which is responsible for the perception of non-verbal communication means - the height and timbre of the voice, gestures, and touch. It is in this state that a person becomes maximally suggestible and ends up in the hands of a swindler.
According to physiologists, at this moment a focus of increased excitation is created in the brain (it is called a dominant), which can completely suppress other areas. The dominant in turn subjugates the entire brain, psyche, and then physiology and human behavior.
Of course, gypsies are unlikely to know anything about the dominant, but in fact they start this process in the human brain. To do this, they use touching, stroking, a set of monotonous phrases in Gypsy, and thus introduce the victim into a daze and completely subjugate it.
What tricks are used
As mentioned above, gypsies pretend to be clairvoyants. For example, having seen a girl with a sad face at a bus stop, a gypsy woman may promise to help her deal with all her troubles and ask for a modest payment. Or, having spotted a young woman in the crowd without a wedding ring, he may "see" the crown of celibacy on her. She can also assure that a certain black lady has corrupted you. Well, tell me, which of us does not have a familiar "black lady" who could wish us harm?
Finally, a gypsy woman may simply ask for alms, hoping for your kindness. And she is waiting for one thing: that you will take out your wallet and inadvertently show her its contents. Either she has already looked after a gold ring or bracelet on your hand. So remember: you cannot enter into a conversation with a gypsy woman, and if you do, do not take out your wallet. And in general, it is better to bypass the street fortune teller as far from sin as possible.
Who is not afraid of gypsies
If you think that happy, confident, successful and sober-minded people will never fall victim to a gypsy woman, you are wrong. According to scientists, the ability to succumb to suggestion does not depend at all on personality traits, but on how the human brain centers are arranged.
At the same time, psychiatrists are inclined to believe that hypnosis is more or less voluntary “cooperation” of people, which means that if a person is extremely skeptical and actively resists the hypnotist, it will most likely not work to subdue him.
In addition, neither a gypsy woman nor a professional hypnotist will be able to influence a person suffering from an acutely expressed mental disorder, mental retardation, as well as someone who is intoxicated or intoxicated. Moreover, these people will not be hypnotized even with a strong desire - their psyche simply will not be able to process the verbal and non-verbal means that are used in this case.
In total, according to scientists, about 25% of the world's inhabitants do not succumb to hypnosis - all the rest are at risk.
