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I know they're lying about his cognitive tests (infosec.pub)

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You're telling me you hypnotized a girlfriend to see the past? Am I understanding this correctly?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As light travels at a finite speed, everything we see is the past.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Since your brain takes on average 200ms to even process visual input, you're, at a minimum, 200ms behind "true reality". What's your point? How is this at all relevant to the conversation?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely not. I triggered a toddler memory, nothing more or less. Damned interesting.

Oh! Shit. Sorry. You were looking to debunk me with some clever word twisting.

"Yes! I brought her back to a time before she was BORN!"

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not trying to twist anything, and it was hardy clever. You merely said something impossible and was digging into it. I didn't catch the reference.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Hypnosis is actually quite useful for digging up old memories that the subject doesn't consciously remember.

Edit: ITT a bunch of people who don't know anything about hypnosis other than unrealistic depictions in media.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Slight problem with that one coach:

Or the time I took her back before she was born.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

As it continues:

She got confused looking, mumbled a little, suddenly spouted, "SNOO!" Startled hell out of me! We had no clue WTF that was. Later her sister related a story about a snow storm when she was 2 and that's what she called it.

My younger siblings were definitely aware of funny family anecdotes that happened before they were born. It's not unreasonable that the memory she was recalling was a recounting of that story.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've all but given up talking about it. Yes, it's real. Yes, it works. No, not like Hollywood has shown us.

I still find the "tipping" anecdote to be the most convincing. Guess you would have to experience it to believe. When the stage guy did it to her, him and his assistant placed her head on a chair with her ankles on another, and she was perfectly still and calm.

We could put that down to stage tricks I missed, but having done similar IRL, well, I experienced it. Going to hypnotize my wife and video the thing.