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Hypnosis. Is it real?

This is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), not really hypnosis.

NLP is a technique that is used VERY often on the mass media as a very effective propaganda technique.

I do believe hypnosis is real, but not in the way it's usually demonstrated. Stage hypnosis and people passing out because a man snaps his fingers is obviously fake. Real hypnosis has *major limitations*, requires a willing participant, etc. There are even drugs that are called hypnotics.

But yeah, that video was a demonstration of NLP, which is without a doubt a real thing. Whether the policeman was complicit we will never know.
Yes, it's not hipnisis, it's altered state of consciousness.

I studied NLP, but never believed it could be so effective. Though I felt this altered state of consciousness, when one gypsy woman tried to tell fortunes for me. And I remember it was like falling into opium state.

The point is that many NLPists, or hypnotherapists say that this influence is possible only with willing consent, therefore such video could be fake. But why it's difficult to say that it's fake, because suggestion technics are real there, and people who are being suggested behave like real hypnotics.

So it might be a real altered state of consciousness, but with preliminary agreement of both sides. So that cop might be actually complicit, but they still agreed to suggest him to forget about fine, like it was real.

I very much doubt in such hilarious effects of suggestion.
"yea please this might work in f***ing canada where the cops are actual human beings but in the US they would've punched you in your face and told u to stfu"

From the comment section.
Any real cop would have hypnotized his ass instead.
I can't imagine this working in the united states.
I am inclined to that this is fake. I can't really imagine somebody could do anything that he doesn't want to do.
But there could be undoubtedly some effects of hypnosis, when a person do things, that go out of his frame, but this effect is explained by that this person will have an excuse for doing such things as he was in hypno-state and didn't control himself.
People do things that they don't want to do all the time. The subconscious is very powerful.

At the very least, all people operate daily by means of numerous unconscious impulses, but it can even be argued that all decisions we make are made before we are aware of "making" them.

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