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When I heard I’d be attending a hypnosis show I thought, oh great, a bunch of people running around on stage pretending to be hypnotized and making chicken noises.
Vince Lynch, who I’m told specializes in the psychology of making anyone do anything, took the stage and asked the biggest skeptic in the audience to volunteer. If I didn’t have a need to stay conscious, that would have been me. In hindsight, I’m glad I didn’t volunteer.
Vince was convincing and hilarious. Here’s what he did get her to do: impersonate a narcotics officer, sing like Macy Gray, and answer questions as Santa Claus. Things he did not get her to do: sit on his lap (turns out most women don’t), think hypnotists are the coolest people (again, most women don’t), and see being a hypnotist as a real job (his mom isn’t sold on this either). I was so surprised to see self proclaimed skeptic fall under Vince’s spell that I had to talk to her after the show. She described her experience as being in a trance-like state and found herself letting go and giving in to Vince’s requests
The flyers for event read as follows: “Influence? Thought control? Demonstration of the impossible.” As far as I’m concerned they demonstrated the impossible. Call it mind control or just plain peer pressure, whatever it might be, Vince Lynch succeeded in influencing me. I walked in thinking hypnosis was silly and not real and walked out a believer.
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