This is intersting...

this is a funny one XD i have no idea as to why you wernt hypnotized. mabee you just have a more complex mind.

maybe I'm living the dream now!?
like the matrix, lol.

I don't know, I never really looked into it much,
just really frustrated with it more then anything.

Maybe it's just a mental thing. Like... your expectations are getting in the way of it working or something or the other..... or you're just wired in a funny way that naturally wards off hypnotists.

well, to be honest, my expectations of the experience is no more simple then sleeping.
that's what I expected to simply fall asleep.

the more he talked the more hyped and focused I became, so when he said sleep, I simply
closed my eyes and tried to sleep, only I had my eye open thinking, when is it suppose to happen
when am I going to fall asleep?

he tried doing it again on my head, and I tried to do what he said, but i just raised my head back and
said, I don't think it worked, and he kindly took my hand and led me off stage.... that was the end of it,
a bit disappointing, didn't even get to talk to the guy after the show, he was busy with something else,
based on no one caring I'm assuming this is a regular thing that happens to people. Even at night when I
am currently asleep, when my girl tries to talk to me she says I always pop right up when she starts talking,
as well as throughout the night I shake and twitch about every 15 minutes, if I didn't have a GF to tell me
these things I would've never known.

but, one cool thing about that is since I'm always in that state when I'm sleeping I'm able to remember dreams
more vividly and very often.

Hmm... I see. Neokat 2 - Hypnotist 0

Some people go down easy, some don't go down at all.

I'm also a weird case, I can go into a trance at the drop of a hat, but when I go down, there's something in my head, I call it 'watchdog,' who seems to watch every command and suggestion and it pulls me out of the trance if I'm in danger of doing anything socially awkward. It also works with subliminal suggestions; if I get a sudden craving, I imediately find myself searching for the meaning behind the craving. It's like "Shopping at the supermarket, so boring, at least they've god decent music being piped in. Hmm, maybe I should get- Why do I need to get hot dogs?" It's like that, the counter-question cuts in before the subliminal sugestion finishes transcribing itself into a full thought.

that's the thing with hypnotism, really. It can't make you do anything you don't want to or wouldn't normally do anyway under similar circumstances.

Hypnotherapy is one of those silly may or may not work things depending on how receptive you are to suggestions (aka how strong willed you are or are not)
They have done lots of studies on it like most really hardcore religious people are easily hypnotized, but me... won't work I can even pick out suggestive little things in commercials from background noises, certain words and music. (Yes they can legally do that it isn't hidden messages like flashing words and stuff)

what's silly is that there's no reason for subliminal messaging to be illegal since it has never been proven to have any kind of effect on people's decision-making whatsoever.

Hypnotism's kind of in the same boat, really. Someone can be a "licensed" hypnotherapist, but that could mean anything from having studied under a stage hypnotist to just whipping up a diploma for yourself in photoshop and putting it up on your wall. It's got very little to do with any kind of science and there's no official regulating body or anything. Hypnotherapy, for people who can be hypnotized at all, might be useful to help them relax and stuff like that but it can't really bring out lost memories or make you do anything you wouldn't normally do anyway.

The ability to send people into magically-induced sleep.

Truly the power of a dark Warlock of great prestige.

I saw a hypnotist as the New Year's Eve party me and my gf went to.

It was eventually obvious that a good number of people were not in a 'proper' trance. A choice couple however, it's hard to tell if it worked or not XD

Hypnotism is subtle. "You only closed your eyes because he wanted you to" is exactly what hypnotism is. It makes you more susceptible to suggestion. It affects everyone a little bit differently, but hypnotism is basically following instructions and at a certain point in trance, The hypnotist makes you trick yourself. I was once hypnotized to forget the number four. To the outside it looks like he plucked the number four out of my head, but it's more like he made me have the number four not belong when you count. So I would count 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Well,there are cases where the subject is just too stupid to be hypnotized.

But seriously,you kind of have to let yourself go under. If you fight it,it won't work.

i was more willing then, then I ever was.
but, I can't lie, I am an extremely distracted person.

Like I said,he was giving you instructions. You have to go along,if you can't do that,you're not going to be hypnotized without severe beatings and fatigue inflicted on you.

and that sux to know,
that is a sad thought that I can only
follow directions when threatened.

of course that may be a good thing too,
I suppose take the good with the bad.

I'm just saying hypnosis is all about putting the subject in a highly suggestible state. You can go into this state willingly,which is how stage magicians do it,or you can be forced into this state via forms of abuse that wear down the body and eventually the mind,which is how brainwashing and torture works. So,I'd avoid being a subject in a hypnotist's act in future since you can't calm down enough to get into it.

The way I heard it, at max only 20-40% of people can be hypnotized. It's actually about whether you're a person that can and uses to drift off into contemplative and/or meditative states naturally with your brain going into alpha waves mode where moving, even in reaction to anything, becomes uncomfortable, even a real bother.

If you're that kinda person, you're easier to hypnotize, because hypnotizing is nothing but directing you towards that state that's natural for you anyway. And yes, it does make you susceptible, not as in that you do whatever somebody tells you, but as in gullible. Gullibility is pretty much the natural state of the unconscious because it just can't tell between sensations, memories, imaginations, and suggestions, which are all the same to it. It's the state of make-believe, where there's no difference between you and the outside world, because it all comes from the same source, the mental fabric that your mind is made out of.

this is a bit enlightening to know,
but still, kinda leads me to believe I'm more controllable on
a conscious level, at least thats what it sounds like.

Hmm very interesting. Maybe he just didn't have the tone that works for you. Still I have a friend that is a trained hypnotist. She can put me in a deep trance. Though I've mostly asked her for Trances to put me to sleep just do to the fact I'm normally an Insomniac.

Oh fuck it's Ganondorf! Can't you see who it is? Don't do it! It's a fucking trap DON'T DO IT! :O

yea, he was a bit of a scary looking guy,
I didn't want to try and draw his exact likeness,
but...maybe i should start trying that with some
folks i know. lol.