Chapter 11

When I was reading other people's blogs, it seemed like some people disliked the chapter. It's not that I loved it or it was my favorite, but I thought it was interesting. It also was a lot better than chapter 10 so I'm sure that helped its case. Of course, like everyone else, I enjoyed the section on hypnosis the most. In the beginning of the blogs I mentioned that my stepfather was a numerologist, so I was predisposed to this kind of material from a young age. He also owns an entertainment company which contracts out hypnotise, so again I've been around these people most of my life (I was 4 when my stepfather moved in). That said, I completely believe in it. However I also think people fake it. I know I mentioned this in an earlier class, but I was always taught that if you can "lose" yourself or "zone out"(for instance while driving and seconds or minutes later you realize you don't actually remember driving but you still are on the right track) you can be hypnotised.

At the all night senior party at my high school, they always had a hypnotise. They start with like 20 random people and start to "weed out" the people to get like 5 or 6 people who can fall into the deepest hypnosis and start making them do weird things. I know I read in someones blog that they were in something like this and couldn't be hypnotised. For most people it's not that they can't be hypnotised, it's usually that they won't allow themselves to let go completely (I wouldn't even go up to try because I had no idea what they would make me do in front of all of my classmates). Anyway, I know that people also use hypnotism for diets and to quit smoking. Although I don't know if all of those people are hypnotised or if it's psychosomatic.