Does hypnosis work on you?

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I read some about hypnosis and autism and due to non-existing studies I wonder how well people on the autistic spectrum (like, everybody on the spectrum, classical and aspergers) react to hypnosis?

Maybe I totally miss the point of hypnosis or my barrier between consciousness and subconsciousness is really screwed, because I can't even meditate in the common way that other people do, but I can easily tune my awareness of pain or make myself believe the most strange things as if they were true. I just need to calm down for a moment and "let go", easy, nothing fancy.
Maybe it has to do that I was a lot more autistic ("low-functioning" is a stupid label) as a kid, because I feel that there are certain similarities, but my subconsciousness and my consciousness seem closely connected.

So, yeah, have you had any experience with hypnosis? NLP? (Meditation even?)
Or: Do you believe you are easy or hard to be hypnotised?

I tried hypnosis a few years ago. The woman I saw was a little irritable and made me nervous. In fact I was so tense I am pretty sure that I did not "go under". Saying that she experimented with putting me off certain foods, and actually I went off sweet foods after that one session.

I am absolutely oblivious to hypnosis. One time, there was a professional hypnotist performing at my college. He invited fifteen people from the audience to go onstage, and I was one of the volunteers. Almost everybody onstage and more than half the people in the audience were completely affected: they barked like dogs, meowed, and howled; crawled on all fours when told to; and scratched like crazy, because the hypnotist told them they had fleas. Only me and one other person onstage were unaffected; I just sat there with a calm expression on my face, trying to hold in the laughter. After the show, the hypnotist came up to me personally, and told me he's never seen someone so oblivious to his hypnosis methods.

So far hypnosis has been a waste of time with me. I just sit there trying hard not to laugh and not succeeding.

ive never tried it, im too

I have yet to find out.

It worked for me.

At one point I was smoking forty cigarettes a day and I had real problems giving up. I'd tried the nicotine gum and the patches but they had no effect so my doctor suggested hypnosis. The guy I went to told me that he was going to charge $200 for ten minutes work BUT if it didn't work then the next treatment would be free, and the one after that, and the one after that ad infinitum.

He then hypnotised me into thinking that everytime I smoked a cigarette it would smell like vomit. I could walk into a smoke filled room and it would have no effect but put that cigarette in my hand and the post-hypnotic suggestion would be triggered. I haven't smoked since then and my hypnosis was twenty years ago this Christmas.

Ed Almos

Not really, I'm too naturally vigilant so even giving in when I want to tends not to be an option. Truth is though all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis, having a person guide you is really just an aid in the sense that you don't have to manually think about or say anything yourself. For me I've always had my own self-made version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that works pretty well on curbing habits or changing things that I want to about myself, it takes a long time to really gain effect but its because I take a real thurough and complete approach and try to get at the bottom line root of the problem rather than trying to just taking care of the surface aspects.

Hypnosis...

I don't even have to see a professional hypnotist to be hypnotised...it's true!
My cousin who is intensly interested in hypnotism, no professional training has managed to hypnotise me twice! He went onto a hypnitism website of some sort...it gave an explanation of what to say and do etc and he did it.

I am very easily hypnotised.

I've never tried hypnosis.

I know, you're probably thinking, "Well, what the heck is this weirdo posting here for?"

I wanted to say that I meditate. I attempt to do it daily, but it's hard when you can't always find someplace spiritual and people are cracking rude, stereotypical jokes all around you, making it difficuly to get into a relaxed state of mind.

Some people think it's cool. But some people just think I'm a freak. Or they might just think that because I threatened to play "Duck Duck touch me and chairs go flying". ...I'm not evil, just a bit angry sometimes. And it was a joke.

Nope.

No - futile for me. I suspect I'm already there.

Hypnosis has absolutely no effect on me. I find the entire notion extremely dubious, and have roughly as much faith in it as, well, faith healing.

I do meditate regularly, which I believe is something different from hypnosis. Sensory deprivation aids me in meditating, during which time my mind is able to slip almost entirely out of my body; I could not do it if people were bothering me, which is why I generally have a special place of isolation and peace for such things.

Good fortune,

- Icarus knows nirvana well...