This article is going to be about conversational hypnosis and how it can be dangerous when the wrong people use it.If you can execute conversational hypnosis correctly you can make people do what ever you want.
Derren Brown is a renowned hypnotist from the UK. He is regularly featured on national TV demonstrating his skills. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen him do is hypnotize a random person and then make them withdraw £5000 from the bank for him.
They went and did this oblivious to the spell that they were under. At the click of his fingers he then put the person to sleep and told them in 10 seconds time they will wake up and forget the last few moments of their life.
When the film was played back to the person in question they couldn’t believe that this had happened and they had no memory of it what so ever. This is an extreme example however. Derren brown is one of the best hypnotists in the world.
Unfortunately however conversational hypnosis is now being used for criminal activity. In the USA a man was calmly stealing from store tills by hypnotizing the cashier.
Once he had successfully hypnotized them he would ask them to fill up his bag with the money and then he would calmly walk out. The only reason staff became aware of this scam was because the tills never added up properly at the end of the week and CCTV footage exposed to them what was going on.
There are many other stories of hypnotists using their skills to steal money or to scam people out of money. What makes it such a perfect crime is the fact that the victims have no memory about it afterwords so it is hard to provide the authorities with evidence.
I personally have been studying conversational hypnosis on a recreational level. It is great fun to learn and put into practice but you need to be careful not to let the power go to your head and to make sure you stay on the right side of the law.
