by stephan » Sun Jul 10, 2016 7:32 pm
I only do street hypnosis, and 50% of my volunteers will have hallucinations, 10% amnesia but no hallucination, 10% hand stick but no amnesia, 30% no phenomena at all.
How do I select? I don't ask people to try hypnosis, I just sit with my "free hypnosis" paper and wait people come to me. If it's a big group that is having too much fun (birthday, etc.), I refuse because they won't concentrate.
First, pretalk where I explain everything, but especially that they won't sleep and that they will be conscious (+/-2 min). This part helps me have almost nobody tell me that the induction failed. During pretalk, if someone doesn't look at me, I discard him (in my head or overtly sometimes). Then I often use magnetic fingers. I only go further with people who already have a tranced-out look after this test and who keep looking at their fingers. The eyes tell me more than the fingers in this test, but of course fingers that don't touch are immediately discarded. After instant induction, hand stick, I really insist on amnesia. If number amnesia doesn't work, I try another metaphor or another amnesia like ex-boyfriend name. I insist on amnesia because my aim is to make my volunteers hallucinate, they all love it.
People also become more suggestible if you let them wait and look at what happens to the other volunteers.