12th June 2005, 2:04 PM
Most certainly.
Especially after I did a little background research on what hypnosis is, according to general opinion of REAL psychologists, and not the crazy quack jobs we hear on TV and radio.
For example, this site http://skepdic.com/hypnosis.html says that the current viewpoint on hypnosis is pretty much that it is self induced by a willing person that is aware of what a hypnotized person is supposed to behave like and has some sort of knowledge that someone is attempting to hypnotize them at the time. Basically, they change their personality willingly to comply with what they know. It's the reason why people who don't think they can be hypnotized, or otherwise don't believe in it, can't be.
Anyway, that knowledge in hand, this video is pretty stupid. I can believe the guy was hypnotised in the above sense if he was a true believer, but he would have to have some sort of knowledge given to him at some point that they were trying to hypnotize him.
Especially after I did a little background research on what hypnosis is, according to general opinion of REAL psychologists, and not the crazy quack jobs we hear on TV and radio.
For example, this site http://skepdic.com/hypnosis.html says that the current viewpoint on hypnosis is pretty much that it is self induced by a willing person that is aware of what a hypnotized person is supposed to behave like and has some sort of knowledge that someone is attempting to hypnotize them at the time. Basically, they change their personality willingly to comply with what they know. It's the reason why people who don't think they can be hypnotized, or otherwise don't believe in it, can't be.
Anyway, that knowledge in hand, this video is pretty stupid. I can believe the guy was hypnotised in the above sense if he was a true believer, but he would have to have some sort of knowledge given to him at some point that they were trying to hypnotize him.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)