This dude's a genius.

For any skeptics out there about hypnotism, first good for you being skeptical. But yes hypnotism is real and very powerful, just not as powerful as some people make it out to be. The first guy has it down pat. You can only be hypnotized if you believe you can be. In short you are shutting down your consciousness and putting yourself in a very suggestible mood. Anyways there are two theroies on how it works; The social influence theory is where the hypnotized is caught up in the role of being hypnotized and thus is hypnotized (think about it). The whole "your eyes are getting very tired" gig is to increase the suggestiblity. The hypnotist says your eyes are tired and they are. You think that they are tired because he says so, but really its because you're watching the coin/watch/dot go back and forth. The spilt consciousness theory is where your mind isn't preceiving the world correctly. It is still sensing it but not processing it. i.e. if a hypnotized person is given a tube of feces to smell from, and is told that they are roses not feces, then the person will say that they smell roses. They are still smelling feces but in there mind now those feces are smell like roses.

FALACIES OF HYPNOTISM

You can't be hynoptized against your will or unknowingly.

You can't do paranormal things, i.e. superhuman strength, regenative properties, remember something you forgot (if you forget something, it is gone totaly. Its not just lock somewhere in there. It is GONE. People just make stuff up and really beleive its true. There not lying there just wrong.) You can do stuff that you normally wouldn't do. Ignoring pain explains superhuman strength, you can punch through a wall but you really don't want to.

I don't want to sound like im being a contrarian just for the sake of being a contrarian, but it just seemed to me that you could take any statement that any of those hypnotists said, and the opposite of their statement would be the truth. Consider the irony that all the people in those audiences who clap, stand up and spin around, or fall asleep on command are described as wolves, and any person with the will to resist the peer pressure and act on his own would be described as the sheep.

However I did find the speed-seduction hypnotist to be pretty honest, he didn't seem to be trying to change any ones minds about their own feelings, but rather aiming to get a favorable reaction from the women.

i just fucking hate Louis Theroux... That obnoxious little twat