Svengali

During college, one of the more impressive stage shows I have ever seen was a group hypnosis. I watched a stage full of about 25 classmates all under hypnosis doing the most surprising things. I would have thought the show was 'rigged' if I had not known several of the people personally. Several years back I attended to a local county fair to see a similar show. That got me intrigued and I ultimately purchased a couple of books on hypnosis to see what this was all about.

Fun With Hypnosis is a short paperback, but with some very interesting content. The chapters near the end of the book talk about self-hypnosis. At the time I was having problems getting sleep at night so the section on getting a good night's rest looked interesting. I remember taking a couple pages of the narrative, scanning them into a optical character reading and converting them into computer generated oral text. After assembling the parts in order, I sat back to review the recording which was about 7 minutes long. Kind of dry and boring. Did not think too much of it. Surprisingly that night and for the next two weeks I slept like a baby. I was impressed. The only nexus I could make from the sound sleeping was to the review of that recording.

Since then I have burned that oral narrative to a CD for periodic evening listening when my anxiety level is high and I need restful sleeping. I will admit the impact of the recording is less now than the first time I listened to it, but I am impressed. The stuff really works.

I have never been part of a mass hypnosis (at least I don't think so), but I will vouch that hypnosis (in general) really seems to work.

I have always liked this book for its ease of reading, basic content and introduction to a totally different topic from the norm.… (mehr)