Can someone be hypnotized to commit murder?

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I'm willing to learn from a mistake if I've truly made one. Link please to a study that proves hypnosis is anything more than play acting and a placebo effect.

While that could take place in some cases, it isn't always acting or playing along.

"Hypnosis works and the empirical support is unequivocal in that regard. It really does help people," says Michael Yapko, PhD, a psychologist and fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/01/hypnosis.aspx
 

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If that gets in my head, I'm coming for you. :ninja:

haha! I'll be ready withasleep pen that is mightier than the sword that you cannot defeat no matter howhardyoutryandtheharderyoutrythemoredifficult itbecomesas youwakerefreshedandfeelingfineslowlywaking and snap!:ninja::biggrin::whiste:
 

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I'm willing to learn from a mistake if I've truly made one. Link please to a study that proves hypnosis is anything more than play acting and a placebo effect.

Yes, you're skeptical about hypnosis, and that is a good thing. But a part of you knows that dreams exist, because you yourself have dreamed dreams while sleeping. And a part of you knows that different states of mind exist, because you yourself are sometimes tense and sometimes more relaxed.

You also know that relaxation and rest are real, and that things that used to be a problem for you can stop causing you so much difficulty when you make certain changes inside.

You know that sometimes time seems to pass very slowly and sometimes very quickly. You know that you can focus so intently on a TV program or a book that you almost forget your surroundings for a while. You know that ‘hypnosis’ is just a word meaning all the things I’ve just mentioned that you know to be true.

Skepticism is a wonderful tool as long as you use it rather than letting it use you.
 
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John Connor

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I was hypnotized by a green eyed blonde high school cheerleader and I would have shot ANYONE that touched her. ;)
 

John Connor

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I am well aware of the audience here and I expected the negative responses I've gotten so far.

Most of the audience here are no nothings that have been brain washed by the man. They are simply too damn stupid to accept alternative sources of information. It's like talking to a jelly fish, i.e no back bone once so ever. ATOT amoebas is what I would call them.
 

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Most of the audience here are no nothings that have been brain washed by the man. They are simply too damn stupid to accept alternative sources of information. It's like talking to a jelly fish, i.e no back bone once so ever. ATOT amoebas is what I would call them.

lol. I think it might be fear. They don't want to believe it's possible because they are consciously or subconsciously afraid there is a "hack" into their mind. They'd rather believe they are in full control all the time. It's also scary that other people can be programmed to kill like evil fleshy robots. WoOoOoo Happy Halloween! hah:eek:

Then you have the spaghetti monster avatar guy who probably is skeptical of any new information without evidence thanks to the religious charlatanry he has witnessed. Yeah I don't know if charlatanry is a word, probably not. Oh well.

I have a friend that worked for "Cynthia" during the Vietnam war. The shit the CIA did back then pertaining to torture made him vomit. He worked in HUMINT.

Man, sorry he had to witness that. War sucks.
 

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You looking to off someone?

No. Just find the subject interesting.

Don't you think if these terminally mentally ill humans are going to progress beyond something a sane being wouldn't turn away in disgust from they should learn a bit more about how their minds work a smidge beyond hey lets throw some chems at it and see what sticks?
 
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tcsenter

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Hypnotized, proper, or your run-of-the-mill brainwashing? I think hypnosis could be done but it would require a perfect storm of factors that would make it very difficult and unlikely. i.e. you'd need to get really lucky to find someone with the right mix of personality traits, intellectual deficits, identity crisis or plasticity, open to suggestion or influence, etc.
 

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Hypnotized, proper, or your run-of-the-mill brainwashing? I think hypnosis could be done but it would require a perfect storm of factors that would make it very difficult and unlikely. i.e. you'd need to get really lucky to find someone with the right mix of personality traits, intellectual deficits, identity crisis or plasticity, open to suggestion or influence, etc.

Hypnotized not brainwashed. It's not as rare as you think. Have you had a chance to see the videos in the OP or read any of the articles posted in this thread?
 

MongGrel

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Most of the audience here are no nothings that have been brain washed by the man. They are simply too damn stupid to accept alternative sources of information. It's like talking to a jelly fish, i.e no back bone once so ever. ATOT amoebas is what I would call them.

Watch out, John is trying to hypnotize you.
 

Greenman

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Trick question. A person can't be hypnotized to do anything. Hypnosis is a sham.

We have a winner.

Honestly, who falls for this crap? I had a fellow hypnotize me once, it ended in a brief argument as to weather or not I was hypnotized. I left, annoyed that this clown had wasted my time.
 

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We have a winner.

Honestly, who falls for this crap? I had a fellow hypnotize me once, it ended in a brief argument as to weather or not I was hypnotized. I left, annoyed that this clown had wasted my time.

We have another one in denial that can't bother to take a peek at all the evidence in this thread but probably has plenty of time to hit up the nef thread, watch twerk videos or TMZ to find out what honey boo boob is up to.
 

SlitheryDee

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I could see being put through months of brain washing using drugs, torture, and relentless mental manipulation as maybe producing someone capable of murder. Just hypnotism though? I doubt it.
 

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I could see being put through months of brain washing using drugs, torture, and relentless mental manipulation as maybe producing someone capable of murder. Just hypnotism though? I doubt it.

Seems far fetched? So does quantum mechanics. Doesn't make it any less real. You don't have any experience with it so it's non-intuitive and seems unreal. Guess what seems real to religious folks? Things that aren't real. That's because they've been trained to think so. Look I get it. Humans are bad at gauging reality. Abysmally bad. Especially when they go with their "gut" feeling or try to imagine it rather than using the scientific method.