Life ... Part 4
Hypnotised ????
Four years ago my wife (Jen) and I were on a trip in Europe for a few weeks.
As part of this we went on a cruise, something that I doubt we'd ever do again after the Covid crisis.
We boarded in Barcelona, Spain and the trip was going to take us to various Spanish ports, Casablanca and the Canary Islands.
We never had planned to do a cruise before, so I still wonder what made us decide to do this one, Still, it was just fantastic. I'm so glad we did it, but as I said, I wouldn't do another.
Each night there was a show on in the huge theatre on board. After attending a performance one night, they announced that on the following night there was to be a hypnotist performing, and they needed 20 volunteers. Trouble was, they were struggling to get these volunteers. I just put that thought in the back of my mind.
Next night we are in the crowd for the performance, and they put out a call for more volunteers, but very few were forthcoming.
After so much dithering by the announcer I thought "Stuff this, for the sake of getting the show done I'll just volunteer" which I did, and eventually so did a few others, so we now had the number he was after.
After the hypnotist fluffed around for ages and played loud music and made us shut our eyes and stand with our hands stretched in front of us, he then decided which ones were ready to be 'taken into a new world'
I can still clearly remember every second of what happened, and can't really say that I'm convinced that I was hypnotised, as I kept peeking to see that I was doing what everyone else was doing !! I didn't want to look completely stupid !!!
He started with incredibly loud music and talking incessantly and touching us to 'check that we were viable'. Every so often he'd send one of us back to our seats as we were deemed as not 'viable'. We had to stand like this for ages and keep the pressure on our hands stretching, and trying to clear our minds of any thoughts.. I began to think that I'll just do what he says so that i can sit back down again.
Throughout this I was waiting to fall asleep or whatever happens, but I just remained aware of what he was telling us to do, as well as having a sneaky peek at the others !!
After a while we were then told to sit down on the chairs on the stage, in a row.
He then went along the row, constantly talking and put us 'to sleep'.
At this point I was sweating it out and hoping that I was doing what I was told, and was clearly aware of what was going on around me.
I just did what we were told and completely felt normal, expecting my 'hypnotism' to happen soon.
I'll point out here that I didn't feel compelled to follow his instructions, I just didn't want to look stupid by being the odd one out, hence the constant peeking!! 🙄
We were then told to do various things like put our arm around the person next to us, stroke their arms etc. Still not convinced at this stage !!!
At this point I was feeling quite uncomfortable but still went along with everything. I didn't feel 'hypnotised' or anything, I was still waiting for it to happen.
Were others feeling the same as I was ? Who knows !!
More 'evidence' of my hypnotism !
I just felt at the time "Go with it and just look convincing"
The next clip is a bit longer, about 14 mins.
I'm still a massive skeptic, as I wasn't sure what I was meant to be doing at times, or whether my eyes were meant to be open or not.
I was really starting to consider whispering to the people either side of me "Do you reckon this is for real or not?"
Regardless, I soldiered on.
At the very end he gave us a final command, that when Dave the show announcer mentioned a certain phrase (it sounded like Christopher Cress ?? I forget it now) a few of us would jump up in our seats and scream out
"I do believe in fairies"
How fortunate that I was selected to do this !!
We then went back to our seats and the first thing I said to Jen was "I reckon this hypnotism is Bull$%#@"
After the show finished and Dave the announcer was doing his thing, and then he said the magic phrase. I wasn't going to do my fairy scream and just sat for a second or two, but then the others all did it, so I jumped up and did it too..
Jen was flabbergasted and in hysterics.
To this day I remain unconvinced, Jen feels otherwise. I told her I only did it because the others did, and that there was nothing compelling me to do it.
As we walked out the 'hypnotist' was at the door selling his CD's (of course he was )
I asked to have a photo with him, and as Jen took the photo she said to him "My husband said this was just B#$%&@#"
To which he replied, "They all do, but they are wrong"
Hmmmm
Well Readers,
It was a great cruise, hilarious night and a most memorable trip to a beautiful part of the world. We have been so lucky to have been able to have done these things when we could.
Until my next post...
Cheers 😁
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