Turns out - I can be hypnotised!

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It has been 5 hours, and I have not needed a painkiller or nerve blocker!
I am officially amazed

Its a wonderful intervention! And entirely natural and non-toxic.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Sure. But his stuff was as unscientific as it comes. I don't intend to start shit, b/c what works for someone works.

Back in the early 70s my math teacher taught me how to construct a rectangle from a square such that the area of the rectangle has more area than the original square. Whats more interesting, if you use a square sheet cake for the demonstration the volume of the rectangle cake is greater than the original square cake, tho the weight of each are equal.

Now! My teacher knew no explanation for how this works, and I remain clueless, but there is more cake than what you start with. The one measures 8x8 inches = 64 square inches, and the other is 5x13 inches = 65 square inches.

 

[TonyClifton]

What a completely strange experience!

Here is another one.

Look right here...

http://wileybtb.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mib-memory-eraser.jpg

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Sure. But his stuff was as unscientific as it comes. I don't intend to start shit, b/c what works for someone works.

I'm reading a book by psycho-linguist Steven Pinker. In the book Pinker discusses John Searles' idea that when people converse they ignore the words and follow the subliminal clues embedded in the stream of speech. And since people everywhere use the same subliminal clues its possible to understand spoken foreign language when you dont know the language.

 

[oggbashan]

It has been 5 hours, and I have not needed a painkiller or nerve blocker!
I am officially amazed

Congratulations. I'm pleased that it has been so successful for you.

I tried it for back pain some years ago. The hypnotist failed to achieve any improvement. He described me in unflattering but amused terms as the most recalcitrant subject he had ever attempted. His description fitted my then personality profile as defined by my employer's psychometric testing - Og's paraphrase "Incredibly bloody minded, difficult to manage, but usually, and irritatingly, right."

But my wife has managed me fairly successfully for over 40 years.

 

[stickwork]

Back in the early 70s my math teacher taught me how to construct a rectangle from a square such that the area of the rectangle has more area than the original square. Whats more interesting, if you use a square sheet cake for the demonstration the volume of the rectangle cake is greater than the original square cake, tho the weight of each are equal.

Now! My teacher knew no explanation for how this works, and I remain clueless, but there is more cake than what you start with. The one measures 8x8 inches = 64 square inches, and the other is 5x13 inches = 65 square inches.

If the cake is good, its size can diminish magically.

 

[Recidiva]

Congratulations! Good...and freaky...news.

I don't think I'd do it without an escort and a video tape.

 

[TonyClifton]

Congratulations!

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/03/01.16.2012_rushlimbaugh.jpg

There is one thing you are missing.

 

[piccicatopolka]

I've done it in a different way... wide awake. Using just my brain I manipulated art image templates and made music on a synthesizer. Friends Cora and Bill Scott of Santa Monica www.brainpaint.com offered me two free BrainPaint sessions after we chatted a bit on the phone about how I might aide their experimental process. Bill and his team created the software that allows you to watch and hear the art being made by your EEG hook-up. The ear clip is a grounding wire with the main sensor being attached to the ‘soft-spot’ of the skull.

This technology is used in a lot of ways now, especially in treating post traumatic stress disorder and also for wheelchair-bound people to control their environment (lighting, heat, etc) as well as their computer to communicate.

Not bragging, but they used me because I have skills that made the program do things they never knew were possible. As a guinea pig of sorts, I was able to show them more vast options once the basic controls are achieved. Not really hypnosis... its more like biofeedback. So for the music portion you strive to reduce the sounds of heavy, fast moving instruments to generate the favored relaxing Zen kinda music. But to heck with that! Once I figured out how to tell it what to do I selected my fav instrument tones and had fun with it. The art images I made were filmed moving but I have a lot of screen captures from the footage.

 

[Recidiva]

I've tried things like this, but it's for migraines - brain issue. As I've discovered, unlike other pain, which I can use my mind to mitigate or manage, when it's the brain itself and the mind is disrupted...doesn't work.

 

[berry juice]

For the first time in 23 years, I have no feeling (perception?) of pain in my back or upper legs!

what is the actual cause for your back and leg pain, the root of the problem?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

He hit you on the head and then moved the clock forward. Old Dunninger trick.

 

[neci]

any pain yet?

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm inclined to agree.
I am not running around clucking like a chicken.
But I am pain-free

Are you sure you're not clucking.

Thats part of it. You don't even know you are clucking.

Are people around you giggling a bit.

If they are you just might be clucking like a chicken

 

[berry juice]

Are you sure you're not clucking.
Thats part of it. You don't even know you are clucking.
Are people around you giggling a bit.
If they are you just might be clucking like a chicken:

she lives in a rural area. I bet she is clucking right now.

 

[Recidiva]

she lives in a rural area. I bet she is clucking right now.

Maybe she needs the eggs.

 

[berry juice]

Maybe she needs the eggs.

She will never find them. I hope she stops clucking at last and post something.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I wrecked my neck last October at the gym and had nagging neck spasms that would not go away for months. One of my friends is a hypnotist and he hypnotized me and installed something called a "pain dial", which allowed me to dial down the pain 90%. It's considered unethical to remove 100% of pain, because pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong.

Well, the pain dial worked for a good 3 and a half weeks, at which time my neck largely healed itself.

That got me interested in hypnosis, and this past May I got attended a four day seminar in Las Vegas and learned both hypnosis (one-on-one) and stage hypnosis (groups). For the latter, I had to hypnotize a stage full of people. My next goal is to master so-called cover hypnosis (aka street hypnosis).

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Back in the early 70s my math teacher taught me how to construct a rectangle from a square such that the area of the rectangle has more area than the original square. Whats more interesting, if you use a square sheet cake for the demonstration the volume of the rectangle cake is greater than the original square cake, tho the weight of each are equal.

Now! My teacher knew no explanation for how this works, and I remain clueless, but there is more cake than what you start with. The one measures 8x8 inches = 64 square inches, and the other is 5x13 inches = 65 square inches.

Your teacher could not explain how it works because it doesn't. He or she should be fired.

If you "arrange" 64 one-inch cubes into eight columns of eight rows, you have a single cube of 64 cubic inches.

If you remove three rows to achieve your new height dimension of 5 cubic inches you have physically removed 24 cubic inches (3 x 8), leaving you with a cuboid of 40 cubic inches (5 x 8). When you add those 24 cubic inches back into your new 5 x 8 "sheet cake" they will only produce four additional columns five cubic inches high (4 x 5 = 20) with the final 13th column being only four cubic inches tall, not five!

I believe the mistake you and your teacher made was to use plane geometry calculations to solve a solid geometry problem.

You should have used bricks instead of cake batter.

 

[Recidiva]

Either I'm the biggest dummy in the world, or you're leaving something out.

If you "arrange" 64 one-inch cubes into eight columns of eight rows, you have a single cube of 64 cubic inches.

If you remove three rows to achieve your new height dimension of 5 cubic inches you have physically removed 24 cubic inches (3 x 8), leaving you with a cuboid of 40 cubic inches (5 x 8). When you add those 24 cubic inches back into your new "sheet cake" they will only produce four columns five cubic inches high (4 x 5 = 20) with the final column being only four cubic inches tall, not five!

I believe the mistake you and your teacher made was to use plane geometry calculations to solve a solid geometry problem.

You should have used bricks instead of cake batter.

This.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Your teacher could not explain how it works because it doesn't. He or she should be fired.

If you "arrange" 64 one-inch cubes into eight columns of eight rows, you have a single cube of 64 cubic inches.

If you remove three rows to achieve your new height dimension of 5 cubic inches you have physically removed 24 cubic inches (3 x 8), leaving you with a cuboid of 40 cubic inches (5 x 8). When you add those 24 cubic inches back into your new 5 x 8 "sheet cake" they will only produce four additional columns five cubic inches high (4 x 5 = 20) with the final 13th column being only four cubic inches tall, not five!

I believe the mistake you and your teacher made was to use plane geometry calculations to solve a solid geometry problem.

You should have used bricks instead of cake batter.

I have no idea where the extra inch comes from. The man who showed me the problem taught geometry from 1941 thru 1980 or so. He said he couldnt solve the puzzle. I've toyed with it for 35 years. You can cut a block of wood or whatever, and the extra appears once you re-assemble the pieces.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

Here is a lesson.

When you lace your fingers together and your right thumb overlaps the left you are more susceptible to hypnosis and suggestion.

 

[Recidiva]

I have no idea where the extra inch comes from. The man who showed me the problem taught geometry from 1941 thru 1980 or so. He said he couldnt solve the puzzle. I've toyed with it for 35 years.

Well, as long as you don't believe in magic cake.

I don't have an answer as the starting conditions are odd, but the solution of using blocks to represent volume of the original that is then moved and represents a conservation of mass but an appearance of more surface area is a great solution.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I have no idea where the extra inch comes from. The man who showed me the problem taught geometry from 1941 thru 1980 or so. He said he couldnt solve the puzzle. I've toyed with it for 35 years. You can cut a block of wood or whatever, and the extra appears once you re-assemble the pieces.

No. It doesn't.

But as long as we are talking about blocks of wood, perhaps you could loan us your head for conducting your suggested experiment.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No. It doesn't.

But as long as we are talking about blocks of wood, perhaps you could loan us your head for conducting your suggested experiment.

Blockhead or no, its an interesting puzzle no one can explain.