js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) (11/20/84)
> A good one, which apparently has > been used by frat men across the nation is that you blindfold > someone and tell them that you're going to brand them with a > white-hot branding iron. When the victim is sufficiently > hysterical, you touch his skin with an ice-cube. Appropriately > enough, the victim screams at the top of his lungs. Even more > interesting, is that sometimes the victim will produce blisters > appropriate for a second degree burn on his skin (which would not Just out of curiosity, has anyone out there actually witnessed something like this? I don't want to hear from anyone who knew someone who witnessed this, or heard about it, just from someone who saw the ice cube and the blisters. I mean, the screaming, I can believe. The blisters? Let's just wait until we hear (or don't hear) from someone. Doubting Thomas was a PUSHOVER! Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!Mhuxl!mhuxt!js2j
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) (11/27/84)
>Just out of curiosity, has anyone out there actually witnessed something >like this? Well, I didn't witness it. I was involved in it. I'd show you the blisters, but they healed years ago. When I was in high school, one of the things I was very involved in was hypnotism. Among other things, I studied susceptibility to suggestion under the influence of a hypnotic trance. Some people I was working with put me under and ran me through my paces. Besides speaking latin at one point (which I don't speak, BTW, jeff) they did the famous ~You are being touched by...~ trick. It worked, and I created appropriate blisters and burns. You would be absolutely suprised at the things you can get your body to do under the appropriate suggestion. (Just for the record, the Latin I spoke was, after a lot of research, a High Mass I had watched on Television a number of years previous. My subconcious evidently stored it until I needed access to a language I didn't know. Amazing what your brain can do to convince you of what you want to believe, no?) chuq -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~
laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (12/02/84)
Burning people with ice cubes works. I've been burnt that way. My granddad was a dentist before anaethetics were common in his part of the world, and he used to practice painless dentistry by hypnosis. Sometimes it worked. Mostly, it didn't. But it gets you wondering about the sometimes... Laura Creighton utzoo!laura