Chapter 73 Chapter 20 Seeing Human Vulnerability Through Hypnosis

Seeing people's fragility from hypnosis Hypnotists urge people to stagger on TV, and normal people do weird things under hypnosis. This makes people suspicious. Is the conscious judgment we are proud of so easy to control? When I was doing the "Spiritual Covenant" program on Shanghai Cable TV, I made a special episode of "Hypnotism".I invited my brother Dr. Ji Liu to do a hypnosis demonstration. Ji Liu invited more than 10 students to watch from the sidelines. The hypnotized person was a graduate student from the Department of Physical Education.This graduate student had been hypnotized by Ji Liu in advance, so this kind of hypnosis would not make a fool of himself in front of the camera.

I didn't have any special expectations at first, I just wanted to ask Ji Liu to do a hypnosis demonstration, but I didn't expect a strange thing to happen.A female college student who was watching the hypnosis also entered the hypnotic state somehow. Ji Liu had an idea, turned to the girl, and found that she had also entered a deep hypnotic state.So he gave her a hypnotic suggestion: "You forgot your original name, your current name is Xiaoli." One's own name should be the most difficult to forget, but hypnosis can make the person being reminded forget his own name.After a while, Ji Liu woke up the girl and asked her name, she blurted out "Xiaoli".This was originally expected, but Ji Liu's further questions raised a big question.

Ji Liu pointed to the classmate next to her and asked her if she knew her, but she shook her head and said no.In the previous hypnotic suggestion, Ji Liu only asked her to forget her real name and change it to a new name, but it didn't imply that she forgot her classmates, but she forgot her classmates. This is a very shocking hypnotic phenomenon. A person is hypnotized to forget his own name, and as a result, he also forgets the information connected with his name, including his friends.From the perspective of systems theory, a large amount of information about the self is connected with the key identifier of the name.When the key identifier of the name is transferred, the original relevant information about the individual is out of touch with the consciousness due to retrieval failure.

This proves to a large extent that the internal information system of a person is similar to that of a computer.This is like a book I wrote, which is obviously stored in the computer, but a guy enters my computer and changes the name of the book. Although the book is still in my computer, the second time I enter It is difficult for the computer to find that book, and it loses contact with that book. This hypnotic phenomenon confirms the existence of a very strange psychological disease, that is "fugue".The so-called fugue refers to a person who completely forgets his original name and all relevant information, wanders to a place far away from home, settles down there, and even gets married and has children.It wasn't until one day that I woke up suddenly after being touched by some unknown reason, and suddenly recalled everything about myself.

True fugues are rarely detected because it is difficult to verify whether the person is lying or really fugues.But at least the main symptoms of fugue can be manifested under hypnosis, which also proves the possibility of fugue from another aspect.In hypnosis, this phenomenon is known as personality switching, and in psychotherapy, it is used to treat drug addiction. At Fifth Avenue Psychotherapy Center, more than half of my patients are drug addicts.A patient named Carlo was very interested in hypnosis and asked me to use hypnosis on him to treat his drug addiction.But before hypnosis, Carlo said that deep down in his heart he really didn't believe that hypnosis was really effective. He also sought treatment with other hypnotherapists, saying that the effect was not good.

I told Carlo that as long as he concentrated, he would be able to enter a hypnotic state, although not necessarily deep.I asked Kahlo to squeeze his hands tightly, to look into mine, and I put my hands outside Kahlo's, implying that his hand was getting tighter and tighter.After two minutes, I asked Carlo to try to separate his hands, and he struggled to separate them.I continued to hint from the side: "The more you want to separate, the tighter your hands will be glued." After a few seconds, I suggested that he close his eyes, indicating that he had entered a hypnotic state, and he closed his eyes.I tested the depth of his hypnosis and found that he actually entered a deep hypnotic state.So, I gave him a direct hypnotic suggestion: "That Carlo who took drugs has disappeared, and when you wake up, you will be a Carlo who doesn't know how to take drugs."

In the hypnotic state, I also gave him some other related advice.After I woke him up, he said that he felt strange, as if he had changed, but he couldn't tell what had changed for a moment. The second time he came again, he said an interesting thing.As he was passing through Washington Square, he was disgusted by a man who approached him and offered him drugs.That person even called him his friend, and was very angry that he pretended not to know him.After some conversations, he was surprised to find that the drug dealer had really known him for many years, but he had selectively forgotten him.

"You'd better get all memories of drugs out of your mind," I laughed. "Honestly, you know it's almost impossible in New York." "Nothing is impossible!" I said. "People are really strange. I often have a sense of trance. I don't know whether I am in a dream or in reality. Especially after being hypnotized, I can forget the people I have known for many years. Sometimes I walk on the street and I don't know if I am in a dream or in reality. Nobody knows if they are really in full control of their actions." "You have to learn how to focus your attention. The clarity of consciousness is related to the concentration of attention."

"How to train concentration? Why does the high concentration in hypnosis confuse me?" he asked. "The high concentration of attention in hypnosis is different from the high concentration of attention when you are awake. The high concentration of attention when you are awake requires the energy support of the body, which is a positive interaction with the energy of the body, while the high concentration of attention during hypnosis The state is a relatively passive state." "I sometimes feel more awake when I'm asleep than when I'm awake." He began talking about his sleep experiences.

"In your sleep state, what do you feel?" I asked. "It's weird, a life that's almost completely different from what I'm living now." "Can you be more specific?" "In my dream, I am an Indian chief. I have my own family, lead my tribe, and live a primitive and vivid life." "Have you transformed yourself into an Indian chief in your life?" "Yes, I feel that I have some inexplicable relationship with Indian culture, so I have collected a lot of Indian things. If you visit my home, you can see a lot of interesting Indian cultural relics. I sometimes visit Wondering if I was an Indian in my previous life." He looked at me with a strange look.

I laughed and said, "Hypnosis can awaken the so-called past life memory, have you heard of it?" "Of course I've heard of it, and I asked the hypnotist in front of me to hypnotize me, but he doesn't seem to be interested in it." He looked at me and said eagerly, "Can you do past life hypnotism for me?" "The so-called past life hypnosis is actually no different from other hypnosis. It's just a different hypnotic word. But if the word is changed, the things that come out will naturally use that word as the background, and the sound will be different." I explained. "It's okay, just treat it as fun." So I did "past life hypnosis" for him.