Tales Of A Teenage Hypnotist With Asperger's Part 01

What do you think someone setting out learning hypnosis gets up to?

I started learning hypnosis when I was about 13/14 over 20 years ago because I had difficulty communicating with others and saw Paul McKenna on TV and thought hypnosis would be the answer.

As a young boy I struggled to get clients to practice on so I practised on friends, family and strangers.

13/14 year old Dan with runner Roger Black

I thought what would be interesting is to share with you some of the things I got up to as I developed my interest in hypnosis and 'mind control'.

When I started out one of the first things I did was to practice on myself. I didn't really understand hypnosis, I hadn't read enough to make me limit what I believed was possible. As a young boy I used to love playing manhunt. Manhunt was a game where you would have two teams with one team having to get to a location and the other team having to 'tag' that team before any of them make it to the location.

Myself and my friends would often play this in the dark in the woods at night and would have a free-standing torch on the ground as the location to reach. Something I wondered was whether I could make the game easier for myself. I thought it would be handy if I could see where the 'attacking' team players are. I wondered about whether it would be possible to 'see' sounds (later I learnt that this was synaesthesia). I hypnotised myself so that any sounds of cracking branches or of breathing or sudden movement would 'look' like flashes of light and colours so that I could see where the attacking team players were hiding.

This gave a tremendous advantage in the dark when playing this game, as I could identify where people were by 'seeing' their breathing, breaking twigs or sudden noises.

This was the first time I intentionally used hypnosis to my advantage and practised on myself.

Subscribe to this blog for future posts where I will be revealing times I used hypnosis techniques unknowingly when I was in primary school, how I used hypnosis to excel at playing pool, and tricks I used to use to make other players play worse, how I made one man see everyone in a nightclub as being naked, and more...