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Look into the the swirling shape, concentrate on it, watch it turn. Now, you can feel your eyelids become heavy and you want to fall asleep. Concentrate on the shape, now when I count to three, you will go into a sleep whilst still listening to my voice. When I clap my hands, you will arise from your sleep and will want to subscribe to theneek.net and read it every single day. You will comment all TheNeek’s blogs whenever a new one is created.
If you haven’t guessed yet, today I will be talking about hypnotists in the news. I don’t know if I believe hypnotism works or not because I havent had it done to me so cannot judge it. I think the idea of it is cool but wether it works or not is another thing. Normally hypnotism is used for medical treatments and sometimes in stage performances. Medically it can help people quit smoking, relieve stress and more. However, lately it has been used for acts of crime, a thief was hunted in Italy for hypnotising supermarket staff to make them hand over the money from the cash registers. He told the staff to look into his eyes and the next minute the tills were empty and he was gone. The staff had no recollection of the attack but the man was caught on CCTV.
Hypnotism isn’t always used by criminals thankfully, most recently a man hypnotised himself to not feel pain during an operation. “He was fully aware of everything going on around him during the procedure but was free from pain.” The Hypnotists name was Alex Lenkei and he has been practising hypnotism since the age of 16 (he is now 61). The operation involved saws, chisels and a hammer yet no pain was felt.
The stories above make me believe that hypnotism is quite possibly real and it makes me uneasy as I could have been hypnotised without realising. I may only be writing this post because I was hypnotised to spread news about hypnotists. I’d really like to go to a show to see hypnotism but I would never be hypnotised myself as it kind of scares me as once you’re under the hypnotist could make you do ANYTHING.
To anyone who is reading this, have you ever been hypnotised, or are you a hypnotist? I’d really like to know.
