Being Hypnotized

Now you may ask, "Why is she talking about this topic?" Well for those of you who have had a project graduation or some kind of event after graduation you may of had a hypnotist come and visit your school, or college. Well that's what happened to me. For my project graduation we had a hypnotist come and perform in our auditorium. Now before he came I was expecting him to have a little station where you could line up and he would wave a watch in front of you and make you bark like a dog or something in front of your friends. Well I thought wrong. It was in front of my whole senior class. Before the "lock in" I said it would be kinda cool to be hypnotized, but when I found out it was in front of more people I was kind of iffy about it. Well when he asked for volunteers, I didn't want to but my friends of course made me. So me and 15 other people were chosen to go on stage.

The way he hypnotized us was different then what you would see in the movies. He didn't use the watch and swing it in front of us, instead he turned down the stage lights had light on the end of a mic stand and played soothing music. He told us to stare at the light bulb until be eventually fell asleep or just kinda bent over motionless.

It's hard to explain how you feel when your hypnotized. People asked me did I remember anything, and actually I remember everything. You just felt so good that you didn't care what people thought about you. Your mind is almost like in a different state that only responds to the hypnotists voice. Now you realize what your doing when he wakes you up but again you just don't care what people think about you.

There was one thing he did to just me where he said when he snapped his fingers my tongue would fall out. Not literally, but he made me think I didn't have a tongue. And when he said wake up I did and he snapped his fingers. I was thinking to myself, I'm not stupid I know my tongue is still there, but yet I couldn't talk and I felt like gaging. and then he said "sleep" and right away I bent over in my chair with my eyes closed, having no idea why I did. I was awake in my mind but asleep in my actions. And I remember thinking to myself why can't I open my eyes. Very strange but if you have the opportunity to get hypnotized it is definitely worth it. I have actually gotten the chance twice.

Just about a week ago, my college had welcome week and they had the same hypnotist come to the college. I decided to go and see the show, but I didn't want to get hypnotized just watch the show. Well when he put the light bulb on, my eyes were just kind of drawn to it and I fell asleep, in the audience! I was sitting at a lunch table asleep and my friend was sitting next to me. I could here everything she was saying but yet I just couldn't wake up until I heard him say wake up. Now granted I was in the back of the cafeteria and I couldn't hear him very well, so I didn't do any of the actions he had the others do, I just woke up and fell asleep when they did. I told my friend when I was conscious to go and tell him that I had gotten hypnotized and she did. He then woke me up and I was alive and normal.

The only thing about being hypnotized is the aftermath. When your woken up your confused a little bit and shaky because you were so relaxed, but after 15 minutes I was fine. So I just thought it would be fun to share a little story.