Hypnosis as in whipping out a stopwatch on a chain is pretty weak theatrics that combines social pressure and the fact humans are stupid in order to have funny results. It's legit, but needs specific kinds of easily suggestible people to work.
Hypnosis in the sense of subtly altering someone's behaviors or worldviews, on the other hand, is very real, and really simple. Think of a tense movie scene, a protagonist walking through a dimly lit smokey hallway. A bad guy might be hiding in the dark, but you don't know... Now put "Baby Shark" as the music soundtrack.
Ruins the scene, right? You need some shakey violin type thing that layers on itself to build the tension. Likewise, put that stereotypical shakey violin music to someone just walking down a grocery aisle, and then looking at another customer, and you assume there's something up. Something as mundane as a couple violin chords has altered your perception of a situation.
It's not just in the movies. You can make international wine sales shift based on the country of the music in the store. Real-world effects. Well-studied marketing, that one. 30 seconds of exposure, and your behavior has been altered to suit someone else's preferences. For something very minor and unimportant, but still, altered with so little time and effort. Logically it follows with more time and effort, more changes can occur.
Hypnosis as in whipping out a stopwatch on a chain is pretty weak theatrics that combines social pressure and the fact humans are stupid in order to have funny results. It's legit, but needs specific kinds of easily suggestible people to work.
Hypnosis in the sense of subtly altering someone's behaviors or worldviews, on the other hand, is very real, and really simple. Think of a tense movie scene, a protagonist walking through a dimly lit smokey hallway. A bad guy might be hiding in the dark, but you don't know... Now put "Baby Shark" as the music soundtrack.
Ruins the scene, right? You need some shakey violin type thing that layers on itself to build the tension. Likewise, put that stereotypical shakey violin music to someone just walking down a grocery aisle, and then looking at another customer, and you assume there's something up. Something as mundane as a couple violin chords has altered your perception of a situation.
It's not just in the movies. You can make international wine sales shift based on the country of the music in the store. Real-world effects. Well-studied marketing, that one. 30 seconds of exposure, and your behavior has been altered to suit someone else's preferences. For something very minor and unimportant, but still, altered with so little time and effort. Logically it follows with more time and effort, more changes can occur.