The rest of the story....

So I promised you all the story of the fair and the hypnotist.. Warning THIS A NOVEL.. so if you don't have alot of time.. don't read it! LOL..

First off, let me start by saying I have been hypnotized twice before. Once at my High School graduation party and a second time as an audience member at another event. So I should know better. But of course.. I never listen to my basic instincts!  So Ben and I hadn't been on a date in weeks, (since we moved here!) and decided to go the fair by ourselves, to just browse all the cool buildings, eat food and just hang..  When we got there we noticed the hypnotist was going to be there and it was a free show. So we decided to go and watch. I told my husband several times that I didn't want to be a volunteer as both times in the past I didn't have the best of experiences. But for some reason when the guy asked for volunteers my hand went up!  I quickly put it down and then for some reason when he was looking right my way, I put it up again and of course he picked me (stupid stupid)...

Well I got up on stage and sat in the chair and you know did the whole relaxing thing and as he was counting and getting us into hypnosis.. I kept telling myself i was NOT going to be hypnotized. That I just couldn't do it.. the audience was too noisy and I just too distracted. Well after he had counted us all the way down and then asked us to wake up. I did.. (I looked around and thought.. NOPE! not hypnotized.. good.. he will send me back down to sit with my husband.. ). Then he told us all the make a fist with both hands and and then when he counted to three we would try as hard as we could to open our fists (which were straight out in front of us) and we wouldn't be able to ( I was like.. okay... I'll play and then he'll let me go because I will be able to open them). And then I freaked out.... I tried and TRIED as hard and as much as I could to use every muscle in my body to open my fists and I couldn't! At first I freaked out.. then I started to get REALLy mad.. and that was my mistake!

So he put us to sleep again and told us when we woke up we would act like we were in a rock band and be all crazy.. now let me first tell you, if you have never been hypnotized.. when a hypnotist used the term "sleep", you are not really asleep. You can hear EVERYHTING that is going on around you and infact you are acutely aware of everything you are doing.. but you can't control it. even if you think in your mind.. you aren't going to say something or do something, it's almost as if you open your mouth and it just comes out. But when you are laying there uncomfortably usually in some weird position on top of someone else, all you can do is listen to what he is saying and telling you to do next and think "i am NOT going to do that".

Well so he told us that when we woke up we would act like a rock star and the entire time he kept repeating himself, i was thinking (no way.. that is so dumb.. I am not going to do that.. I am just not! i won't do it! That is so stupid!) I was already very mad at him because when he puts you to sleep, most of the time he jerks you violently with your arm or hits your neck and pushes you onto another person or chair next to you. Well the kid that had been next to me hadn't gotten hypnotized and so he left and the chair was empty. It was one of those hard chairs, metal ones and when he pulled on my arm to put me to sleep he pulled so hard that I banged my head on chair. PLUS i have a very bad back and so I was in an awkward position and in a lot of pain. THEN when he put the lady next to the empty chair laying all of her body weight on top of my head and upper back! I was ready to scream. I was so uncomfortable and in alot of pain and that just made me madder by the minute. I tried as hard as i could to physically move and I couldn't. I would often spend my "asleep" time telling myself.. you can move Christy.. you can.. it's your body.. all you have to do it MOVE it... and I would concentrate as hard as I could and nothing. I even tried to open my eyes.. and nothing which just made me even more mad! Okay so back to the rock star part. Well so he woke us up and all around me people were beginning to act like rock stars.. taking off clothing.. yelling, screaming and I just sat there. I was like, I am NOT going to do it and I didn't. I was too scared to move because i thought if I did, I would act like them, so I didn't move an inch..... I think this made the hypnotist mad and he came over and told me to get up. I just looked at him not moving my body, and then he hit my neck and I fell back asleep. I heard him tell the girl next to me to go sit down with her family, as she was not hypnotized and i thought (wait! let me go! I want to go too!). Well so he had put me to sleep facing forward which at first I thought was pretty comfortable. But then as I breathed harder and deeper my body began to sink forward and in after what seemed like about 10 minutes.. I fell head first onto the floor and fell with my back to everyone in the audience which was my worst fear because I was wearing low rise pants and a long sweatshirt. I hoped my sweatshirt was still covering my butt.. but when I started to feel a cold breeze, i just KNEW my butt in some form it was showing. I had underwear on. INfact I had full coverage underwear as I like to call them (I am LDS and we were special garments that act as underwear and are sacred to us). So those were showing as well. All the while we was having everyone do all sorts of dumb things like sniff each others arm pits, lick each others feet, do sign language with their entire body but he was having them do erotic behaviors. Most of this I didn't even know was going on and i had no concept of time. My husband told me all of this later. I wasn't paying attention to the guy, I was mostly trying to convince myself to get UP and move.. or at least pull my sweatshirt down to cover my butt again.. but tried and tried and my body just wouldn't do it. I was getting even more mad when finally he walked over and pulled me up. He told me to quit sleeping on his stage that I was boring and so he was going to punish  me. He told me to touch my nose.. which I first refused but then my body just did it. He told me to try and pull my finger away from my nose which i did.. and found it was STUCK to my stinking nose! I could hear everyone laughing which was making me mad ( think anger was a reoccurring theme tonight for me)... but then he pulled my finger to where to where it was just pointing at me and put my other hand and finger onto my ear left ear. He said.. "now spend the new few minutes trying to figure out how to get both of your hands down! and he laughed and walked off. I tried and tried and pulled and pulled as hard as i could with both hands and NOTHING. Both arms started to cramp so bad that I seriously thought I was going to faint because of the pain. So I started to calm down and tried to "talk" myself into putting them down. I stared as hard as I could at my finger that was pointing at me and thought "i can do this.. just slowing put your finger down".. but the harder I tried. the harder my muscles cramped up and I just wanted to scream.. then when i realized I couldn't move.. really couldn't move them, I started to cry and grunt.. the lady next to me looked at me weird and i thought.. oh leave me alone. Finally I started getting so mad and seriously thought I would burst if I wasn't able to put my arms down that I yelled in kinda this really low almost evil voice.. HEYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!. The hypnotist was busing making a grown man act like a little girl who wanted a Barbie and didn't hear me. So I yelled again and this time even louder and more angry and evil (which kinda scared me because I didn't recognize this voice I was using) .SO the hypnotist walked over to me and laughed and said.. can I help you? I  started crying and just begged and pleaded with him to PLEASE let me put  my arms down. I told him I had huge cramps and that I promised I would be good. Of course everyone laughed and and so did he, which made me cry even more, partly because i was in no mood to play games and because he thought it was funny I was in so much pain. So he put me to sleep in yet another uncomfortable position.

THis time it didn't last long because he told us that when we woke up we would think we were on the Jerry Springer show and that we would be compelled to share some dark secret we had been carrying and we would get crazy. I thought. I don't have any thing to share.. nope.. not going to do it! won't do it! he can't make me. So he woke us up and started at the other end of the room.. one by one people were confession they had slept with so and so.. or had a child they gave up.. or "did it with three sisters but they didn't know" I mean.. BAD disgusting stuff and the whole time I was just looking at everyone thinking.. these people are SICK! Seriously.. Well then one by one random people would just jump us and not even wait their turn to confess things.. and he had made his way down to my side. I kept telling myself.. don't say anything.. you don't have anything to say and then I found myself tugging on his shirt telling him I had something to say. I grabbed the microphone and said " okay I have two things to say, first: I stole something in high school (i was horrified.. i actually had.. but NO one knew it.. and I had never told anyone about it because I had prayed and prayed so hard to ask to be forgiven..). Then I said.. and I want to say something to the rest of you.. you ALL should be ashamed of yourselves.. you are rotten people and are just sick! I could hear laughter and a few people on stage say stuff like "oh your an angel... or please forgive me", and then the guy 2 seats down from me, starting saying what a hypocrite I was.. that I was just as bad as them all and I lost it. I don't know where my energy came from.. but I just started pounding on him.. and yelling at him.. telling him he was a "freaking jerk" as my husband told me later. Has hitting him so hard that the hypnotist grabbed me and put me on my seat and told me to that my hands and feet would be stuck to my legs and floor. Then for some reason I started to just cry.. I was begging him to PLEASE PLEASE not make me do that again.. that I didn't want to be punished again and that I was sorry. I remember seriously crying so hard I couldn't see in front of me.. like sobbing crying. SO he laughed and put me to sleep. Anyhow.. he made us do a few more things and each time.. I would start to get angry and and want to just hurt someone because I was so mad that the hypnotist for making me do dumb things and I couldn't stop it them. The poor guy next to me was having a baby (the same one that I beat up) and he was whining so much and i was supposed to be helping him and calming him down, but he wouldn't listen.... when I told him to just calm down and breath.. he just moaned louder and louder.. and it made me frustrated and mad.. so I yelled at him and pounded his chest and told him to buck up, shut up and live with it. That i had had six kids and it was no big deal so to quit being such a baby!

Then he woke us up one last time and I remember barley hearing something about being awake.. and feeling normal again (which I only caught in bits and pieces because the crowd was so loud) but  for some odd reason I still felt very much the same.. almost like in a trance and that things were just weird. I saw everyone else on the stage around me laughing and being normal and going down to their families and I just stood there.. almost like i was paralyzed.  Ben finally came down to the stage and got me and said asked me if I was alright. I remember thinking.. NO I am not alright! Something is terribly wrong.. but for some reason I can't do anything about it or tell him,  but all I could say was.. hum.. yea??? I just kept looking at everyone around me and everything seemed to be going in slow motion. So Ben took me over to the hypnotists who was busy selling dvd's to everyone (as video or camera's were not allowed).. so Ben had me sit down on a bench and we waited until almost no one was left. Ben and I walked up to him and told him that something was wrong and the I didn't feel right. He told me to sit down on the bench in front of him and then he put me to sleep one more time. He told me that when we counted to three I would feel better and my mind would be free of him. Then he did and i was! I felt instantly better and told him thank you. As we walked away, Ben said that he watched me the whole time on stage and new something was wrong.. he asked me why I had volunteered and I told him "I don't know" I told you I wasn't going to"  then he told me he wondered if it had something to do with what the hypnotist had been playing as music before the thing started.. I was like what music? He said before the show started he had music going and in a really low voice the guy's voice would come on and say "if you have ever been hypnotized before you will have the urge to raise your hand and be hypnotized again" . I told Ben he was full of crap and he said.. NO seriously! I even said that to you.. when I heard it the first time.. but you must not have heard me.

So the moral of the story. Don't be hypnotized. It's seriously a scary thing. The thought that someone else can control your body even when your mind which should be the strongest part of your soul, can't will you do change it.. is VERY scary. I told Ben that I didn't even want to watch another hypnotist again.. that even the thought of being in the audience scared me. It told him I couldn't believe how angry and mad I was the entire time. I was so mad at the guy for making me do all these things and I spent most of "sleep" and awake time trying to convince myself that I could stop it.. which in the end.. was sad.. because I couldn't it.

So that's my story! LOL.. very long I know. I know hypnotics can be used for good.. in controlled settings for doctor purposes. But I think for now, I will stay away from them! LOL

Okay! so an update on the house! Ben got the cabinets done and installed in the kitchen. I made and put up all the trim around the doors, windows and floor and has almost textured the entire house. I PROMISE I will go over later this evening and take pictures. I was going to on Sunday but the doors weren't on yet.. so I figured I would just wait. Well better get back to work! I have a ton of assignments due this week for BHG and MM.. so better go! :)

Comments

[ashley hansen]

HEY i am heather and blake hansens 16 yr old daughter and i just have to say that, that guy is an absolute nut case. I was hypnotised by the same guy at the fair too. but he didn't punish me or anything. I don't remember very much but i do remmeber smelling a guys neck and feet. I also remember him telling me to be a well not a erotic dancer but you know one of those dancers. so i danced like by myself with my nieghbor who was a really attractive mexican. and you know that all mexicans are amazing dancers, but i can't believe that he made me do that nasty dancing in front of my parents with a 21 yr old mexican. But one more thing did you have a huge headache after your hypnotizing experience cuz i did????

[Kayla]

Wow! What a scary story. I think it is very unethical and I would complain to someone on the fairboard or whomever hires events for the fair! I live in Ammon (I found your blog from Sherelle's website) and I will make sure and not patronize the hypnotist at the fair. Scary!
Kayla

[Shawna]

Thanks for sharing. I will never ever volunteer. I think I will stay away from them. I don't like it when people do mean things like that. His time will come when he will regret all the terrible things he has done to people.

[Rhonda :)]

Thank You soooo much for sharing you wonderful tips :)

[cindy]

Christy,

Reading this was very interesting. (and entertaining). I've been hypnotized twice. Once at an event and they asked for volunteers. It was my first time being hypnotized and it's so true about HEARING EVERYTHING!! The second time was by an individual who needed "practice." Anyway, BOTH times they each told me not to be scared and that even being hypnotized that I wouldn't do something I wouldn't normally do. (like take off all my clothes in front of everyone) Anyway, it sounds like you were in a really DEEP trance and the guy took advantage to get laughs from the audience. I can't believe he had people telling secrets. That's just NOT right!!!!

[Jill]

OK, I don't know about YOU but I think that having people tell their secrets is just WRONG. I mean seriously. That is really, really bad and IMMORAL. I am so angry that someone could get away with that. What if a hypnotized person had someone in the audience who could be hurt by that. Am I overreacting? This was a wonderful story Christy, but honestly after reading it I feel so angry! Huh.

[Amy]

i am freaked OUT! that's scary!!!

[Jen]

Yikes. That's a freaky story - sorry you had to go through that! Scary...

[tania]

wow.
what an experience.
i'm freaked out just reading it.
scary stuff.

[Allison K]

oh my!!!
What a horrific experience!
Oh my!!
I can't even imagine not having control like that.

[Nicole]

Oh my gosh! What a story. It sounds terrifing. I am glad you shared it though. I will never, ever do that... always thought it was cool. Not now! Glad you're okay!