Is it possible to hypnotise someone without them realising?

I don’t kn…hello, i’m Pete the potato…wanna play catch with me¿¿

Once, in college, one of my house mates was hypnotizing girls. I watch as Wendy hypnotized Dorrie. When she was finished, I asked her to hypnotize me and teach me some Spanish sentences to see if I could learn them that way. She started the process and I was at a point where I was still awake, but I couldn’t move my arms and legs. As Wendy said, “You are now getting sleepy. . .” Dorrie, who was standing there watching, fell over, asleep. Obviously, Dorrie wasn’t aware she was getting hypnotized, but she was. We stopped playing around with it after that. We really didn’t know what we were doing.

I don’t know much about hypnotizing but some people are more susceptible then others.

My wife swore that she hypnotized herself once (and it’s true that for the days she claimed to have been self-hypnotized she was in kind of a daze, and I don’t for a moment suspect drugs or alcohol). She told me that it’s how she managed to quit smoking during her first pregnancy, and stay off the cigarettes from that time on.

I have no way to disprove what she said. And as far as susceptibility, she was susceptible to nearly anything she saw on television, and she watched a lot of it. Oprah was a godlike figure to her.

Isn’t that how they make new Republicans?

and Stepford wives. ahhh I guess they are the same as new Republicans—never mind.