The "sleep" suggestion
In the month or so I've been learning hypnosis I've found that nothing freaks people out more than the "sleep" command.
This evening a friend
of mine, who is reluctant to give hypnosis a try, was asking me about the "sleep" command as I was hypnotising another friend. He was concerned about long term effects. "But what if she's driving or something?" he asked me.
"Lets see", I said. My friend was going into trance very easily and deeply whenever I said "sleep", so after proving this a couple of times I asked her to hold out her hand and I balanced a wine glass on it. I then said "sleep!" again. I tried several times. Of course she didn't, she merely said "No, I'll drop the glass!"
Proved my point to my friend. Question is though, have I proven that hypnosis is really just safe, warm and fuzzy, or have I merely proven that I just wasn't effective enough with my sleep PHS?
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