Positive Hallucinations

In today's installment of Hypnosis, we're shifting our focus onto something new called Positive hallucinations. Whilst you may have seen a negative hallucination in the past (ie. making someone disappear) this one is positive in terms of conjuring up something that isn't there. I do apologise for the sound in this video as it would have been awesome to have, but I've tried to include subtitles as much as possible in the event that the road noise got too much. So sit back and enjoy Tyson Hallucinates!

In the beginning

So if you've ever been interested in hypnosis and what it's all about, I'd like to start with a little game with you guys. Don't worry, this isn't going to get it so you start barking like a dog, or anything like that. It's a simple game to see how suggestible you are in the current environment you are watching the video below:

So regardless of watching the video, I told you this was an imagination game. This is purely to see what your subconscious mind would do. Most people follow the suggestions as it's an easy one to follow, but how much of that they follow is how imaginative you can make yourself, and the environment around you, such as, is it safe? are you amongst friends? do you feel comfortable?

So this is a good starting test. You can play this game as many times as you like, or share it with friends. It's really to get you thinking about how fun hypnosis can be, and what your potential could be as well.

Hand stick suggestions

One of the things that I do for the first time that I've hypnotised someone is to provide usually name and/or number amnesia, as well as a "hand stick" suggestion. This is to give people a taste for what hypnosis is like, and what it's about, and it's something fun to do.

Matt was an awesome volunteer who knew nothing about hypnosis, as most of us don't know anything. So the first thing I did was remove any element of fear, as well as any elements of expectation. I told Matt during the session that I don't want him to expect for things to happen and I didn't want him to feel that he was doing something wrong or right.

Once this pretalk was in place, it was time to do some hypnosis! The results of the hypnosis can be seen here: