Comments on: Hypnotist David Days knocked out during Dorset show

By: Edd

Edd — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:41:50 +0000

Days’ manager says it was a ‘planned fall’ – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-13662194

Also if it was some sort of experiment, he destroyed its value by telling the participants what he had planned.

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:08:56 +0000

Paul: Unless they’d convinced themselves that they couldn’t, and that fear was what was keeping them there (also, as long as you sit there ‘in trance’, you’re absolved from having to act on the emergency happening next to you, so it’s a way to avoid a stressful situation). Hypnosis, as you obviously know, is something that comes from inside, not outside magic. But if the people under hypnosis are convinced of the magic hypothesis, they may act on that. Kind of like how people that believe they are under a curse will genuinely get sick.

Of course, it may all have been an experiment (fail experiment, if that’s the case — the same thing has been done in different variations from Victorian times onward and has long since been debunked) or a publicity stunt, but it could have been genuine.

By: Svlad Cjelli

Svlad Cjelli — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:06:50 +0000

If one passes out unexpectedly, it’s good to get a physician’s evaluation.

By: Codifier

Codifier — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:49:39 +0000

Funny how people are so attuned to how they’re supposed to behave when they’re hypnotized. They’re just acting within their social role and have no idea what they’re supposed to do if the hypnotist gets knocked out!

Raymond – makes sense to eliminate possibility of being “stuck” in trance during pre-talk. I seem to remember Derren doing something similar when setting up his Stuck to the Sofa stunt…

By: MorayJ

MorayJ — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:55:08 +0000

Who’s the cheeky young scamp in the photo, looking for an autograph from the great David Days?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:41:32 +0000

Shows the true power of hypnosis, that is of course unless it is a publicity stunt.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:29:28 +0000

Nice promotional story but rubbish. People will “get out of their trances” — if you’d like to call it so — when they get bored. There for this is a very cheap publicity stunt.

I am performing hypnosis in NL and UK for 11 years and I know nobody who has an emergency ‘waking up tape’. Hell I even say during me pre-talk, when something happens to me, like for example a heart attack GOD FORBID! everybody will just automatically awaken because the state you will be in is a very normal state.

By: Vlad Kraven

Vlad Kraven — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:22:40 +0000

Fail…

By: Linsey1310

Linsey1310 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:43:11 +0000

I sent Derren this link on twitter yesterday, it reminded me of a previous blog where Derren pretended to hypnotise himself but was actually just sleeping, and now it has a place in his blog – exciting stuff! Ha. Not bad for a twitter beginner.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:28:02 +0000

Re-he-he-eeeallly.