Dear Steve,
Well, I've read all the messages and tried to find the 'Class Archives'
on the web, with no success. I typed the address in correctly, but it
just said address unknown. Any hints gratefully received!
Although using email for debates is potentially a good idea, for us
it's a little difficult because we have not been 'brought up' with it
since the first year. It was interesting reading other people's
opinions, but much of it went straight over my head! So I'm offering
some more low key suggestions!
On the question of compliance versus suggesability (is that the right
word?) in hypnosis, I will give my opinion based on my experience of
being hypnotised. I was at a ball and so quite drunk, which I've heard
makes it more difficult to be hypnotised. Anyway as far as I was
concerned, I was not hypnotised, merely going along with what the
hypnotist told me to do. We were in a group of about 10 - incidently
although some of the original group were told to go back into the
audience at the beginning, I was not one of them - and we were asked to
do various tasks such as singing, looking at the person next to us
through glasses that would allow us to see them with no clothes on,
smelling something awful. I acted as though I really did smell
something, reallly could see the person next to me naked etc, but I was
fully aware of the fact I was acting, had he asked me to do anything I
didn't want to, I would have gone back into the audience. Is this what
hypnosis reallly is? Under normal circumstances I would never act in
front of an audience, so did I perform because of alcohol or hypnosis?
Some of my friends who were on stage with me said they really could
smell something awful etc, so maybe I'm just a 'compliance' person
rather than suggestable.
Anyway I know that was all highly unintellectual, but this topic is
completely new to me so it is difficult to come up with original
thoughts on the issue.
Hoping for some advice re the web,
Thanks Catherine
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