Sleep!
These days I’m terribly into hypnotherapy. I used to be quite a hypnosis sceptic. It just didn’t seem plausible to me that you could make someone cluck like a chicken every time you snap your fingers. My only exposure to hypnotism was from television shows, but I did work in a health clinic owned by a hypnotherapist before and some of my best friends have been hypnotized.
A friend of mine got hypnotherapy once. Her experience also led me to believe it was a load of hogwash. She said that the whole time the therapist was trying to hypnotize her an ice cream truck was driving around the neighborhood playing ice-cream-truck songs. It was so distracting that she couldn’t go into a trance. Finally, she pretended to be hypnotized so she could leave.
My mother also had a friend who used hypnosis to stop smoking. She still smokes.
Now, you understand my scepticism, don’t you?
Recently, I started watching hypnosis videos on YouTube and I’m completely fascinated. I don’t have a television most of my entertainment comes from YouTube.
There’s this thing you can do called instant induction. From what I’ve seen on the YouTube videos to put someone into trance via instant induction all you have to do is grab them and say sleep in a jarring way. We’ve been trying it around the house. So far neither of us has gone into a trance, but I’ve been scared half to death on several occasions.
Since our instant inductions weren’t working out, I decided to try watching videos about how to put someone into a trance. One night, I was engrossed in watching one of these videos with my husband. When I paused the video to as something about it, I was shocked to discover my husband was in a trance. I kept hitting his leg and saying, “Stop messing around and open your eyes.” He kept trying to open them, but couldn’t. Finally, I hit him enough times to snap him out of it. I’m still not sure if he was lying or not. Anyway, here’s the video.






