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- From: weiss@crowe.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
- Subject: Re: Hypnotic phenomena
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:54:33 GMT
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- At Larry Fite's request, I am relating an experience where I had hypnotized
- someone else.
-
- I had read plenty on the subject after seeing one of those hypnosis shows, and
- talked extensively with a few people who had done it numerous times. My
- freshman year at UCLA, I gained permission from a close friend of mine to
- attempt it. This was about the fifth time I attempted to bring someone under
- hypnosis, so I was pretty sure what to expect. I was surprised. She fell
- under an extremely deep state, and related past experiences as if she were
- there performing them.
-
- Specifially, we went back to her thirteenth birthday. She immediately started
- speaking and behaving much more juvenilely than her 18 years. It was quite
- amazing. In any case, we went to two other times in her life, with her
- behavior changing accordingly.
-
- Finally, I asked her to open her eyes, but remain in the trance. She then, at
- my request, played the clarinet for a few notes, but said that she didn't like
- playing it any more. Shortly thereafter, she asked me to bring her out of the
- trance, so I asked her to lie down and close her eyes. I then proceeded to do
- the usual counting until she woke up.
-
- She performed autoamnesia, so she had no recollection of what we had discussed.
- When I related the conversation to her, she corroborated all of her statements,
- but seemed to be quite uneasy about the whole thing. As a result, she never
- did let me hypnotize her again.
-
- The irony is that I had never seen something like that before, and haven't
- since.
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