Eli5, Is hypnosis real? How does it work? Is Darren Brown all real or fake?
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I’ve heard Derren Brown himself talk about asking people after he hypnotised them. I think it was to not be able to see a chair (but the details don’t really matter). About a third said they were just going along with the show, a third did see the chair but couldn’t help acting like they didn’t, and a third completely couldn’t see the chair.
One interesting thing about stage hypnosis is that what matters is the behaviour: as long as someone acts the way you want them to, the audience is entertained. What they’re actually thinking and feeling doesn’t matter.
But hypnosis does genuinely work – exactly how it works and what it can do is more complicated. There are quite a lot of [past threads on hypnosis](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/search?q=hypnosis&restrict_sr=on) on this same question.
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