Originally Posted by volante

Yes and it's a fucking weird feeling. I went with some friends to see a stage hypnotist performing at Bath University, England about 10 years ago. After the usual stuff you see on TV where the hypnotist gets about 10 people on stage and makes idiots out of them, he then hypnotized the entire audience (about 400 people) into holding their left arms in the air and challenged us to lower them - we couldn't until he told us to. It feels very strange - I felt perfectly relaxed as we were hypnotized, thinking "this'll never work" and then I realised I was holding my left arm in the air. At no point did I feel like I wasn't in control - I just felt like I couldn't be bothered to lower my arm.