Hypnosis Mind Control
Is hypnosis the samething as mind control or brain washing?
Is there even a differents?
celine8388 i thought that lucid dreaming is were you enter you subconscious through the dream state, is hypnosis and lucid dreaming the same?
Hypnosis is a name that is used for a lot of variations of the same simple trick. Hypnosis is a social contract between a hypnosist and a person that agrees to become hypnotized. The hypnotist does some weird or impressive-looking gibberish, which allows the hypnotized to relax their inhibitions, and do stupid things without fear of being held responsible for their actions. This is similar to how most people use alcohol.
Hypnosis is used mainly for it's entertainment value, but is also used by some charlatans, quacks, and snake-oil salesmen in various "therapautic" settings. It's value in these settings has never been proven.
Mind control is mainly a concept which only exist in fantasy. Various conspiracy-nuts will often claim that the government, ufos, the illuminaty, CIA, KGB, or someone else uses mind-control to control the population (or some few important persons). In the real world, the closest we've gotten to a mind-control device, is a way to steer laboratory mouse by stimulating their pleasure/pain-center when the mouse starts to walk in the right or wrong direction.
Brain washing is a technique where people have their freedom taken away (such as in a prison or concentration camp), and are forced (by torture) to repeat certain ideological "beliefs". They will be constantly challenged to repeat and/or act according to these new "beliefs". Torture is often used extensively, and the victims are often kept days or weeks without sleep or food in order to reduce their resistance. China and USSR used to be pretty good at brain-washing.
Some few religious "cults" have often been accused of brain-washing their members. While there may be some similarities, the victims are usually only kept prisoners by psychological pressure. But food- and/or sleep-deprivation and mild torture isn't entirely unheard of.
However, it is important to be aware of that the most vocal critics of "cults" are usually religious right-wing christians that are most likely more concerned about the fact that some "cult" has a different belief than them, then they are over the ethics of that particular cult. As a result, many organizations accused of being "cults" are not, and should be viewed as any other religious society.
Scientology IS Hypnotic Mind Control Part1
