when it comes to being hypnotised at any of those entertainment shows and someone is told to be a famous person who they don’t know who they are then what happens to the persons mind?
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I can answer as someone who was hypnotized and told to perform two different things I didn’t recognize. It wasn’t intentional on the part of the hypnotist, I guess they assumed they were things “everyone would know”. What I did: faked it in character. I was still in a hypnotic state. Being hypnotised to me was like an extremely vivid and immersive game of make-believe. So when I say I faked it, I don’t mean I just pretended to know for the sake of the audience or myself, I mean I tried to come up with an in-world solution as my “character” similar to how you might fumble your way through something in the real world that you didn’t fully understand.
One example was we were embodying a certain celebrity and then told we were about to go onstage and perform a certain song. I knew the celebrity but not the song. I was freaking out inside my mind at first like “oh my God I forgot my song! What do I do?” Then I came up with idea of going out there and just singing any song/words that came to mind or lip syncing, figuring if I was confident enough about it, no one would even notice.
The other was an object we were supposed to (pretend) to use but I didn’t know what it was. I just made a guess about what I thought it was and went with that (I was wrong lol)
There could be different reactions though – I had a friend who was hypnotized as well (different time). This hypnotist sent the volunteers back into the audience with a “celebrity identity” and they were supposed to stand up and do an impression of their celebrity later in the show when he called on them. I think my friend either didn’t know the celebrity or exited the hypnotic state for other reasons so he just walked away after he was sent back to the audience (never could get a straight answer from him about what was going through his head).
You can only go into a hypnotic state willingly so most of the time they will probably try to come up with something to meet the prompt, even if it is wrong (which is usually pretty funny anyway). It depends on the person and the prompt though. I could see how someone might just not outwardly react at all if they couldnt figure it out.
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