Everyone knows what hypnosis is. However, not everyone knows that many hypnosis sessions end in one incident or another. In this article, you will find interesting and unusual stories of people who have been hypnotized.
Where is my necklace?
One girl recalls an incident when she was hypnotized on a family cruise trip. Then she was only 17 years old. “If you believe what they said, I was very susceptible to hypnosis. The hypnotist suggested to me that I had lost the necklace, and told me to check the bags and other property of the audience in search of him, - she said. “My parents told me that I left the assembly hall and went to the casino, where I started asking people if they knew where my necklace was until my parents came and took me back.”
Rescuer
“I convinced the man I worked with that he needed my help treating prostate cancer,” said Scott Schmaren, a world renowned hypnotist. “Right before his operation, I had a hypnosis session with him and recorded it for him to monitor his ability to recover and heal quickly. After the operation, a terrible mistake was made, he was given a lethal dose of blood thinning heparin. He started bleeding internally, and the doctors were preparing for the fact that he would die. However, he turned on the recording of our session and was able to stop the bleeding and raise the blood pressure. It saved his life. The doctors failed to explain how he managed to make his blood clot and stop internal bleeding with a lethal dose of a blood thinner in the body.
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Vision
“Probably the most unusual and surreal hypnosis experience I had was when I was doing a two-year training program. I worked with a girl with dissociative personality disorder, which was caused by severe sexual abuse during her childhood,”says Reverend Sheri Heller. - During a hypnosis session, during which she returned to her childhood memories of her grandfather, who was a rapist, she lost her sight. As a child, she introduced him as a vicious owl who stole her eyes with her claws. Fortunately, we were able to restore her eyesight. I quickly brought her out of hypnosis. This experience taught me that you should not return to the past with the help of hypnosis people in order to restore memories. This is too destabilizing not only for the patient, but also for the therapist."
Place taken
“I was hypnotized onstage at a meeting where the hypnotist was demonstrating,” said Robert Burroughs, president of an advertising agency in Burlingame. - After I played my role, the hypnotist said, "Okay, you can sit down." I literally took my chair in my hands (take your seat from English can be translated as "sit down", but literally - "take a seat"). He said that people under hypnosis very often take everything literally. Then he realized that I was still under the influence of hypnosis. He called me back on stage and brought me out of this state."
Not So Lucky 7
“It was a strange feeling,” describes one person who was hypnotized. - The guy hypnotized me and told me to forget certain things, like the number seven or the name of one of my friends in the room, and then brought me out of hypnosis. He asked, "What is two plus five?" I knew the answer was seven. My brain knew the answer was seven. I am not a child, I can count. I just couldn't say seven. He even made me count my fingers one at a time, but every time I got eleven."
Major changes
This did not happen in one session, but hypnotist Scott Schmaren described something incredible that happened to him through hypnosis. “All my life I have suffered from obesity. At the peak, I weighed 165 kilograms, and this despite the fact that my height is only 167 centimeters, - he explained. "Hypnosis has helped me lose more than 80 kilograms and maintain that result for many years, as well as change every aspect of my life."
Making money
At a village fair, a hypnotist made a woman believe that she had won the jackpot. One woman in an interview told what happened to her friend. “They got about ten people, did all their little tricks, and even made my friend believe she won the lottery,” she said. - She cried on stage and told everyone that she would quit her job that day, and it was a gift from God. The entire audience felt uncomfortable."
Congratulations?
“I was accidentally hypnotized at a United Service Organization event in 2005,” recalls one web user. - I was in the audience, very tired, and drank beer. The hypnotist saw that I was falling asleep and summoned me to the stage. I remember how I gave birth, held my newborn son, and how my voice broke with happiness when I answered the question about what gender my child has. And this despite the fact that I am a man. It was an interesting experience in which I was about 50 percent aware of what was happening to me."
What does the hypnotist feel?
“My body was incredibly cold during the session, and the blankets had no effect,” said hypnotherapist Carol Lawson. - I also felt as if I was on fire. It depends on what kind of treatment I am doing.”
Famous believers
Actress Olivia Munn fully supports hypnotherapy. “I went to a hypnotist to deal with obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania. Once I told him that I do not exercise, and he asked: "What do you mean?" I replied, "I don't know, I just don't do it." He said: “You need! It works great for anxiety and depression. " And during one of our sessions, he hypnotized me accordingly. And I'm not exaggerating: it happened on Friday, and by Monday I was training every day at six in the morning, and if I missed a session, I trained twice the next day."
Scene secrets
According to celebrity hypnotist Kimberly Friedmutter, the rich and famous are very open to the idea of using the services of mediums to relieve stress and deal with the problems they face. During one of the sessions, the celebrity said that she needed Kimberly's help in order not to fall in love with the actor with whom she starred in the film, and this was a client who often falls in love on the set.
Special delivery
The craziest thing that happened to Jessica Alba during hypnosis? She gave birth. The actress spoke in an interview about her experience of hypnosis. “It doesn’t happen that you are waved for hours in front of your face, you turn off and wake up with a baby in your arms,” she explained. “To put it simply, my husband puts me in a kind of state of meditation. He says: "You are relaxed and floating in the clouds" while I give birth."
Naked and scared
When one of the users was hypnotized, he felt very relaxed. However, this experience partly frightened him very much: “One part in my memories stands out very strongly. The hypnotist told all the participants that on the count of three we would all look down and realize that we were completely naked. When he said three, I remember that I looked down, then looked up at the large crowd of people who were looking at me, and felt incredible shame. He said he ran behind a nearby curtain, and his friend, who was also hypnotized, turned out to be much more confident, so he had a wide grin on his face, he propped his hips with his hands and looked very pleased with himself.
Marina Ilyushenko