Street

Hypnosis

George Hutton

mindpersuasion.com

©MindPersuasion

Contents

Why Street Hypnosis?

How the Mind Works

Human Hierarchy

Is Hypnosis Real?

Confusion

The Handshake Interrupt Theory

Ambiguity Patterns

More Ambiguity

Combinations and Examples

Because

Fun with Linguistic Presuppositions

Presuppositions

Brain Bending Sandwiches

Two Ancient Powers of Persuasion

The Holy Grail of Street Hypnosis

Quotes Pattern

Blurred Realities

Spatial Anchoring

Summary of Skills and Examples of Each

Daily Drills and Practice

Referential Index

Ambiguity Examples

Changes

Questions Are Better

Cleft Ideas

Return of Kings

Lucky For Time

Quotes Pattern

Spatial Anchors

Hypnotizing Content

Time Travel

Extra Patterns That Aren't

The Groucho Marx Pattern

Final Words

How to Practice

Appendix

Further Study

Contact

Mind Persuasion Kindle Books

Why Street Hypnosis?

In the world of hypnosis, we can think of two broad categories. Direct hypnosis, and indirect hypnosis. For a long time, there was only direct hypnosis. Everybody knew what was happening. The hypnotist, the person being hypnotized, and everybody watching. This worked for a while. But then therapists started to realize that people coming in, even knowing they were being hypnotized, would resist. Maybe they were scared of what they might find inside their own brain. Maybe they didn't quite trust the hypnotist a hundred percent. So, they'd pretend to be hypnotized. Closed their eyes and pretended to follow along. Plenty of hypnotists went along with this, not really minding so long as they were getting paid. But a few who wanted to help their patients and wanted to know why, despite being relaxed seemingly following all the hypnotist’s commands, weren't getting any better. So, a clever hypnotist invented another form of hypnosis. Indirect, or conversation (sometimes called covert) hypnosis. The kind where the patient doesn't really need to know she's being hypnotized.

Covert Hypnosis

This opened a whole new world of possibility. It wasn't long before this linguistic magic was discovered and taught to others. Soon people were teaching seminars to other therapists. Before long this started to be applied outside of therapy, namely in sales. After all, a sales meeting between the buyer and seller is very much like a meeting between doctor and patient. The buyer wants something (the product or something similar) but there are some things that are making it difficult to get (usually the price). This allowed some clever salespeople to make a lot more money. After sales, this type of hypnosis was used in other areas.

The Street

The street is where only the most skilled survive. If a patient is talking to a doctor, they've agreed to a mutual set of rules. When a salesperson is talking to a client, they are operating within an environment with certain expectations. When you walk into a store, you have an expectation of talking to a salesperson who is going to try and sell you something. If you are a woman, and you walk into a nightclub where guys go to meet girls, you have an expectation (even if you don't have the desire) of some guy coming and trying to get you interested in him. But on the street, there are no rules. Street fighting is understood to be much more dangerous than boxing or even cage fighting, where there are explicit rules. Learning direct hypnosis is one thing. You memorize a script, and then spit it out word for word. Learning covert hypnosis is more difficult, but most people use this in settings with certain expectations. Therapy, sales and seduction all come with a pre-built set of communication styles that both people can prepare for. Just like boxing or cage fighting. But street hypnosis is very much like street fighting. There are no rules.

Ethics

This opens a necessary question of ethics. The techniques you learn in this guide are very powerful, and can be used to have a lot of fun, or they can be used to cause a lot of damage. Just because you can do something, and get away with it, doesn't mean you should. You can go to Home Depot and buy a set of tools and some lumber to build a playhouse for your children. You can also use that same set of tools and that same lumber to build a torture device in your basement. These techniques are great party tricks, and can turn an otherwise normal day for a waitress or bartender into a wonderful and memorable exchange. You can also use these to fog somebody's mind so badly they can't make correct change the rest of the day and get fired from their job. Many believe techniques like these shouldn't be taught at all. However, that idea, that only select people should know certain technology is very dangerous in and of itself. Please use these techniques carefully, and make sure you follow the simple rule of always intending to leave people better than when you found them. If you absolutely need to use these destructively, consider them no differently than martial arts. While many people study martial arts for years or even decades without ever intending to use them outside of tournaments and practice, knowing that you can use them defensively is a comfort, and gives you much more confidence. Consider these patterns and techniques the same way. Use them for fun, use them to bring smiles to people's faces, and have the confidence that comes with knowing you can use defensively should the need arise.

Communication Flexibility

A great side benefit of studying these techniques, even if it's just for fun, is they will give you much more flexibility in your communication. Instead of only having one response (or none at all!) in any situation, you'll feel much more resourceful, and this itself will give you much more confidence. It will be nearly impossible to back you into a corner verbally. You'll be a lot better communicator in general. If you only have one way of saying something and people don't quite get what it you're attempting to convey, it's easy to get stuck. But when you can come at the same situation from plenty of angles, you'll never be at a loss again.

What's Ahead

Before we get into the techniques themselves, it will help to understand how they work. We'll take a brief survey of the human mind, and understand it's strengths and weaknesses. Then we'll get in to the various components that make up the patterns. Then we'll go through the patterns themselves and try them out in different hypothetical environments. Finally, we'll go over the best ways to practice these, and the most useful mindsets and beliefs to hold while delivering these. While it may be a lot to take in at once, give these techniques plenty of time. Their benefits are enormous, and you will greatly enjoy their use, as will the people you communicate with.

How the Mind Works

Our minds were developed in a very harsh environment. It was better to think more quickly than more accurately. Those that had to sit around and contemplate every decision ended up getting eaten by predators before they could reproduce. Those that ran away first and wondered why later are the ones that survived, and we are all descended from them. Consequently, our brains are very fast, but not very accurate. Even most of our memories are false. Study after study shows that when several people see an unexpected event, there is a lot of discrepancy in the recalled event only hours later. Even students who know the contents of a test and spend time purposely studying have trouble remembering! This is one example of how our minds are very reactive, and to become purposely proactive, it takes quite a bit of preparation. This gives a budding street hypnotist like you plenty of wonderful windows in which to slip your ideas. In this chapter, we'll go over some of these windows.

Deletions

Imagine you saw a fantastic movie on your favorite streaming service. It had plenty of your favorite actors and was made five years ago, yet you'd never heard of it. So, you watched it with great interest. The next day at work, your friend asks what you did last night.

"Dude," you reply excitedly, "I saw this awesome movie about these bank robbers!"

"Yeah?" Says your friend, looking up from the gurgling coffee pot in the break room.

"Yeah!" you reply, mentally recalling your favorite scenes.

"So, bank robbers?" your friend asks, looking back at the filling coffee pot.

"Yeah, but it was like, it had a different angle," you reply. The movie was pretty standard, but it was still awesome at the same time. Yet, you can't actually describe exactly WHY it was so awesome.

"Cool," your buddy says filling his cup and walking out.

One of the shortcuts in energy usage our brains make is not spending a lot of time remembering things that aren't important. What things are important? Things that deal with survival. Money, sex, shelter, danger, really important things. Not reasons why a movie was so cool, or even the small details that make movies so cool. If you're like most people, there are certain movies you can watch over and over again, and each time it feels like, on some level, that you're watching them for the first time. This is only possible because you simply cannot remember everything (or anything even close to everything) that happens unless it's a matter of life or death. You remember the PIN number and your passwords, you remember you bank account number, and if you know what's good for you, you remember your spouse’s or significant other's birthday, but beyond that, information that isn't vital for survival gets pushed way to the back of your brain.

Distortions

When we do remember things, we usually don't remember them very accurately. A metaphorical way of understanding this is to consider how we are motivated. We are either motivated away from pain, or towards pleasure. Every single decision we ever make, both consciously and unconsciously, is a mix of those two elements. We are moving away from pain, and toward pleasure. So, when our brain looks out through our senses and perceives things (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) it only needs to know whether the "thing" we are perceiving in the moment, or remembering, is pleasure or pain. The next important thing is the strength of that pleasure or pain. The specific details come in a distant third. When recalling that movie, you remember it with good feelings. But those good feelings were based on something imaginary, not something specific. Had you been taking a different route home, and had found a secret stash of money from actual bank robbers, you would have remembered the precise location with extreme accuracy. But since the movie generated a brief amount of temporary and imaginary pleasure, you brain didn't really think remembering all the fine details was that important.

Generalizations

This has to do with how we learn things. You probably don't remember very well how it was to learn to tie your shoes for the first time. Maybe riding a bicycle, and definitely driving a car if you've learned how to do that. These are skills that are very transferable. Even if you've only ever driven one car, driving a similar one will take a lot less of a learning curve. This usually happens in two short intervals. One when you get in and look around, (maybe five seconds or less), and two as you're actually driving it, and getting a feel for how it handles. This is very helpful, from a brain-economy standpoint. Imagine if you had to go through the same learning curve every time you tried to drive a different car! Or worse, imagine if you had to learn to tie your shoes all over again every time you bought a new pair! That would be just silly!

No Confusion

Another aspect of our brain is that we don't like confusion. When something doesn't make sense, we need to figure out what's what before we do anything else. If your spouse or significant other is angry at you, and you have no idea why, it's very difficult to shrug it off. This will bug you and will interfere with how you perform your job. On the other hand, if you know why he or she is angry, this is much easier to put on the back burner of your mind.

No Open Loops

Open loops, or cliffhangers, leave kind of an open hole in our mind. We hate unfinished business. This is why clever writers put in those cliffhangers at the end of our favorite shows, because then we can't wait until next week. Or we'll stay up another hour if we're binge watching on a Tuesday night!

Internal Processing

Studies have shown that sometimes, up to fifty percent of what we are perceiving is not really what we are perceiving. We think we're seeing stuff happening around (or hearing, etc.) but, in reality, that's our brains internal cache. They believe when our brain looks out into the world, and sees that things are both familiar and safe, it kind of "shuts off" the dependence and shifts into "coasting mode" by recalling previously stored data. And when something shows up, it takes a few moments for our brain to "come back on line." This is when you're standing there staring off into space and somebody needs to say your name three or four times to get your attention.

Verbal Illusions

Most of us love those optical illusions. Those cleverly drawn pictures that purposely make our eyes see things that aren't really there. Staircases that go in infinite circles, a street lamp that keeps shifting into an old lady, and lines that can't possibly be moving, but seem to be. Consider that street hypnosis is a form of verbal illusions. You can arrange your words in certain ways that will make people think and perceive things aren't there. To make them respond and to think in interesting ways. And the great news is that these verbal illusions are much more flexible, and much more powerful. Why? Once you create an optical illusion, it just sits there. But verbal illusions are flexible. Interactive. By watching them carefully while you interact with them, you can continue to build (or stack) various verbal illusions on top of one another. Imagine walking into a huge maze, where all the walls are covered in carefully drawn optical illusions. Everywhere the viewers turn, their minds are spun off in a different direction. This would be a wonderful funhouse experience. (They are called fun houses for a reason!) You can do this to them on the street, at parties, in elevators, in bars, anywhere. And all you need is your language.

Human Hierarchy

Humans are hierarchical animals. Study after study shows that when we people are stuck in an environment with strangers, we line up according to a self-determined hierarchy. In movies about people stuck on islands or elevators, this is played out dramatically, but in real life it usually happens very quickly and partially subconsciously. As soon as people realize they're in an unknown situation with strangers, they quickly scan each other for two main reasons. First to make sure nobody's a direct threat, and second, to figure out who's in charge. This happens in a couple minutes, non-verbally, and simultaneously. Researchers can make this more interesting by specifically choosing various males with "alpha" traits, and then putting them on certain tasks that are carefully chosen so it won't be clear who the "natural leader" is. For example, they might take six ex-military officers with extensive experience as mechanics, and get them to rebuild an engine. In that situation, they will all feel like they know more than the other guys, and all have a subconscious "battle" for supremacy. But most of the time, the person who is in charge is selected by the others. It's a role that is bestowed by default Nobody else wants it, and most people tend to look for somebody who's in charge rather than be the person in charge. What the heck does this mean to a budding street hypnotist like yourself? A large skill of being a hypnotist is realizing that being a hypnotist also means being a leader. You must be able to assume the dominant role in the group, even if there is only two of you. The more you can do this, the easier it will be to play mind games and have fun. There has been endless books and articles written on the words that go into hypnotic language, but most overlook this most important quality.

Con Man

Let's take a slight detour into the world of con jobs. You'll find being a street hypnotist is much like being a con artist. However, let's make sure we understand the intentions are completely different. Con artists trick people on purpose, for the sole intention of taking financial advantage of them. If you did happen to have less than ethical ideas about these techniques, then you can use them to create some very lucrative cons. However, let's back up a bit and look at the situation devoid of any ill intentions. What does a con artist do? He creates a "mini reality" around his victims in order to get them to believe that giving them money is a good idea. Most of the time, they set it up so the mark is investing or getting in on a deal of the century. The con artist buys a winning lotto ticket the day after, rather than the day before. But the numbers match up, only the date is wrong. The con artist approaches the mark and says he won the lottery, several million dollars. But since he's in the country illegally, if he turns in the ticket he'll get deported and won't get any of the money. But all he needs is ten grand to bribe his immigration officer, to get him all the legal documents he needs. He finds a mark, shows him the "winning" ticket, and explains the situation. He comes up with a time constraint, perhaps his immigration officer is going on vacation the next day. If the mark believes him, all he needs to do is loan the con artist the ten grand, so he can go pay off his immigration officer, get his official residence papers, and cash in the money, which he'll split with the mark. He'll even let the mark hold the winning ticket as a sign of trust! Of course, he gets the money, disappears and never comes back. Cons like this are as old as the hills. But why are they called "cons"? Why are they called "con men?" Con is short for confidence. The men and women who pull these scams have massive amount of self-confidence, that is why they are so believable. And in order to fully utilize these techniques, the more confidence you have, the more they will work.

Pecking Order

One of the main things that makes us look for natural leaders in uncertain situations is a lack of confidence. And the one trait we look for in those natural leaders is natural confidence. This is the one trait you'll find, above all else, in successful hypnotists, and those who use covert techniques, whether it is in pure therapy and direct hypnosis, sales or seduction. Confident men and women excel more than non-confident men and women. The most successful hypnotists don't have secret techniques. The same techniques are out in the open. It's that they have rock solid confidence that the techniques will work.

The Bear Theory

Now, you may be getting a bit worried. You may be thinking, "Hey, I picked up a book on street hypnosis, now you're telling me I've got to have the stones of a world class con man?" Not really. Once upon a time there were two guys out hiking. One of them saw a bear, and immediately started putting his running shoes on.

"Dude, what are you doing?" asked his friend. "You can't outrun a bear!" he added.

"Don't need to outrun the bear," the hero said, jogging off. "I just to outrun you!" he added as he sped away. What does this goofy metaphor mean? The first step of any hypnotic trick is to say to your subject:

"Hey, look! A bear!" Just kidding. The secret of using these tricks effectively is that you don't need to have world class con-man confidence. You just to need to be more confident about the situation that your mark. I mean your conversational partner. Just understand that all humans are hierarchical, and at the first sign of trouble, we look around for somebody who's in charge and will tell us what to do. What does this mean exactly as a street hypnotist? It means you will first knock them off balance a bit (mentally, you're not going to be shoving anybody), but as soon as they are off balance, you are going to need to maintain control of the situation. These are not "hit and run" tricks. These are back and forth tricks that will naturally lead to your outcome. But from the very start, just realize you're going to need to consciously assume a leadership position. Understanding this dynamic will make it much easier to pull of these tricks. And once you get a few experiences under your belt, and you have seen just how easy it is, you'll be able to have a lot more fun.

Is Hypnosis Real?

OK, now we're getting to the good stuff. Now you have an idea of the type of "inner game" that you need, at least with respect to your marks, I mean subjects, we'll start to talk about the possibilities. But before we do, we need to make sure you don’t have any crazy ideas about what's possible. Many of what people know about hypnosis, and its possibilities generally comes from three areas. Movies, YouTube, and perhaps a stage show you've seen. Let's break each one of these down, so you don't have unrealistic expectations.

Stage Shows

Let's consider the mechanics of a typical stage show. You've got a city with half a million people. You've got a venue with 150 seats. Let's approach this argument assuming there is absolutely no such thing as hypnosis. It's an absolute and complete scam. So, the hypnotist and his marketing team advertise on Facebook, where they put their ad in front of 200,000 people. Of those 200,000 people, they sell a hundred and fifty tickets for fifty bucks each. So even if hypnosis doesn't really exist, chances are those 150 people who bought the tickets believe it does. Or at the very least they believe it's possible. So, they go to the show. When the show starts, the hypnotists asks for volunteers. He gets eight people to come up on stage. What can we say about these eight people? They really believe in hypnosis! If you've seen a real stage show, what comes next is a kind of test. The hypnotist tests each participant for their "ability to be hypnotized." They usually send one or two of them back to their seats. This seems like a simple thing, but let's unpack it and see what's really going on. Dr. Cialdini's book, "Influence, Science and Practice" has influenced the way salespeople and seducers talk. He has discovered, through experimentation, the reason why we humans do things. Words like "scarcity, social proof, authority" all come from his work. The stage hypnotist is leveraging (whether he knows it or not) the law of "Commitment and Consistency." People tend to behave in a way that is congruent to the way they've behaved in the past. And when we do anything publicly, we are making that behavior a lot stronger. For example, they have studied several jury trials. The trials where people take a straw vote (when they first vote "guilty" or "not guilty" just to see where they stand), they can do it two ways. Publicly, where everybody says "guilty" or "not guilty" out loud, or privately, where they write their answers on slips of paper. Trials where each juror says his vote out loud take twice as long. Why? Because once we humans state our beliefs publicly, we are much less likely to change them. On the other hand, when they vote privately, they are more likely to change their minds, since nobody knows how they voted. How does this work in stage hypnosis? The first act of public behavior was when they bought their tickets, and came to a hypnosis show. The second was when they raised their hand and volunteered to be hypnotized. Then when the hypnotist tests all of them and sends one of two back to the audience, what does this do to the remaining people? One, they are all up on stage, having taken several public steps in their overt agreement that hypnosis works. Two, they are physically up on stage in front of other people, and are going to be part of the show. This is a very good feeling for most people. People naturally love the idea of public recognition, or anything that feels like fame. And by kicking a couple of people of the stage, the hypnotist can pretty much guarantee that the remaining people will do anything to remain up on stage and in the spotlight. Including pretending to be hypnotized even if they aren't. So, even in a world with no such thing as hypnosis, there could still be stage hypnotist who trick people (in a convoluted and roundabout way) to get up on stage and pretend to be hypnotized.

Is Hypnosis Fake?

Not at all. People have undergone surgery under hypnosis. It is not fake. But it's a little different than what is shown in stage shows. Those stage shows likely do involve hypnosis, but hypnosis is not the only thing that is going on. To think you can walk up to people and get them to start talking like a chicken, or accept a piece of paper as real money is a bit unrealistic, at least in the beginning of your street hypnosis career.

What About YouTube?

YouTube is also "fake" but in a different way. The people you actually see on YouTube being hypnotized on the street (there even are a few videos with people taking paper money as if it were real money) are indeed being hypnotized. But what you don't see is how many people have been edited out. For every one guy that takes a piece of blank paper and thinks it's a dollar, there were maybe ten or more people who took the paper and looked at the "hypnotist" like he was crazy. This editing strategy is the same for all those YouTube videos, from street magic (for every trick that worked, the magician had to try his trick on plenty of people who weren't impressed), to those videos where they find dumb Americans who are asked to find North Korea on a map and point to Australia. Making successful YouTube street videos (hint, hint!) is not so much about skill, but more about talking to enough people and only showing the ones where your "trick" worked.

So, Movies?

Yeah, movies are about as fake as they get. They combine the best of everything. They have the best writers coming up with plausible hypnosis situations. They have the best actors memorizing and delivering these hypnosis lines (both giving and receiving). Even then they’ve got to practice over and over and take several takes until it comes out perfectly.

A Lot of Work!

Don't let his scientific truth about hypnosis get you down. Street hypnosis is a lot of fun. Party hypnosis is a lot of fun. Using a few hypnotic lines on that cute girl down at Starbucks is a lot of fun. You can do a lot with some simple lines (that you can easily memorize) and just a little bit of confidence (which will naturally build up each time you use these same lines). All you really need to do is memorize a couple of the lines (we'll get to the good stuff a little later) and try them out. Once you see how easy it is to fade people's brains a little bit, you'll want to keep going, keep learning more, and keep getting more confidence. In reality, the stuff you can do on the street is far more advanced than anything you see on YouTube or on stage, because both of those rely on a lot of non-hypnosis technology. Once you start digging beneath the surface of human communication, and realize how fun and easy it is, you'll see street hypnosis as wonderful hobby.

The Hobby Hypnotist

Stage hypnotists and YouTube hypnotists share one thing in common. They never really improve their hypnosis abilities. Once a stage hypnotist has his routine down, he simply repeats it over and over in city after city, with the same results. The same with YouTube people. For them, it's really a matter of variations on the same trick (talking to a bunch of people and only showing the good stuff). Once a YouTube hypnotist realizes the secret is in the editing, then it's just a matter of talking to fifty people a day and showing the few that work. But for a real street hypnotist, somebody who sees this as a hobby, you will treat this as a hobby. Something that you can continually practice and improve upon. If you take that attitude, then street hypnosis will soon be your secret weapon that you can use anywhere, any time with wonderful effects. In real life, YouTubers and stage hypnotists are probably pretty boring. But you will have a secret collection of powerful hypnotic weapons that nobody can touch.

Confusion

All street hypnosis will start with a bit of general confusion. Any time you start a conversation, especially with somebody who isn't expecting it, you are going to have to break their state. Meaning they are standing there, thinking whatever thoughts they are thinking, and then you come up and start talking to them. This means that they have to stop thinking about whatever they were thinking, and start to think about what you are talking about. Remember our brain has a couple of routines running at all times. One is to conserve as much energy as possible, and two is to make sure that we aren't in danger. So, the first automatic, instinctive, subconscious response to anybody walking up and starting a conversation is going to be something like this:

"What does this person want? Is there anything in this for me? Are they dangerous? How much? How can I get out of this as quickly as possible?"

Most people won't actually think these thoughts, but the subconscious will scan the person in less than a second according to these ideas. The result will be a "feeling" that is delivered to the person being interrupted. If they find you attractive and interesting, that will be a good, open feeling, especially if you they suspect you started talking to them because you think they are interesting and attractive. They perceive that you need some help, they'll want to help you and end the conversation in a mutually beneficial way as quickly as possible. This will also cause a little bit of anxiety. Humans don't like to admit we don't know the answer to a question somebody is asking us, so if they suspect you need something, they'll naturally be a bit nervous, since there's always a chance they won't know the answer to your question. If they quickly judge that you aren't attractive and interesting, and they perceive you want something, they get a "bad feeling" that will get them to end the interaction as quickly as possible. Your job, as a street hypnotist, is to keep all these from happening. This is very easy, and this is very fun. There are also a lot of ways of doing this. A general strategy (we'll learn plenty of strategies and techniques later) will be to knock them off balance, which will open their mind temporarily. When our minds are open and not sure what's going, this is a golden opportunity to slip things past the conscious critic. The conscious critic is the part of us that is always on alert when we get new information, especially when it's coming from new people. Traditional (direct) hypnosis disarms this conscious critic by getting the personal comfortable and relaxed. Conversational hypnosis does it a bit more sneakily, but there is generally plenty of rapport. Because there is little time to build rapport in street hypnosis situations, the conscious critic must be knocked out quickly and effectively. In fact, it’s not really knocked out as much as it is pre-empted. During regular and covert hypnosis, the conscious critic is knocked out for a long time. But when practicing the art of street hypnosis, their conscious critic can only be knocked out temporarily. And some people are very, very terrified of anything they don't recognize, so they will have very strong conscious critics that stay awake with extreme vigilance. Others will be open rather quickly. The main idea is that when doing street hypnosis, as soon as you get their attention, you've got to slam their brain with several bits of information that are carefully constructed so they don't fit into any expected categories (somebody interested in them personally, somebody who wants something other than information, and somebody who wants a quick piece of information). Luckily, the longer you continue talking to them, they easier it will be to confuse them. Remember our comparison to optical illusions. Once they are created, the artist doesn't have to do any more work. He just needs to hang them on the wall and let people walk up and be entertained by them.  But as a street hypnotist, you'll need to measure the response from them carefully, and adjust your delivery based on their in-the-moment response.

Where Can These Be Used?

Now we're starting to develop a very basic idea of the structure, where and how can these techniques be used? Anywhere that it is appropriate to start talking to people. Of course, since we've been using the term, "street hypnosis," that's the obvious place. That's the wild west of communication. The place with no structure, just an endless amount of people to practice on and have fun with. In reality, walking up to strangers on the street is likely the most difficult case of using these tricks. In reality, anywhere that it is expected, (not just appropriate) to have a conversation, this will work fantastically. This is your first homework assignment. Starting today, take a look at all the people you talk to on a regular basis or the people you can talk to, and it wouldn't be considered out of the ordinary. While you hopefully will only be using these for mutual fun and not to take advantage of anybody, we'll use the language of the con to make it more interesting. Your first homework assignment then is to always be on the lookout for potential marks. As you do so, think of the following possibilities.

Potential for Fun

Commands

The most common idea regarding hypnosis is the idea of embedded commands. If you've never heard of these before, these are small statements that are hidden within larger sentences, and act like directives, or orders, to their subconscious. While you are looking for potential marks, what commands would you like to give them, assuming they will be followed?

Hidden Insults

While not mutually fun, it can be fun to insult somebody that "has it coming." Because these are hidden, you can get away with saying things to people without them knowing your saying things to them. We'll explain what that means later, but as you go around looking for marks, are there any uptight people (like your boss or that one shopkeeper who's always angry) that it would be fun to slip in an insult, hidden in plain sight?

Confusion Time Bombs

This is a lot of fun. When going through your day and looking for marks, imagine having the ability to walk up, say a few sentences and then walk away leaving them absolutely baffled about what just happened. Imagine being a comic book super hero and being able to sprinkle magic "amnesia" dust to people to momentarily confuse them. Who would you enjoy doing this to? Are there any "know-it-all" types in your circle of friends?

Desire

If you could make people want something after only a few minutes’ interaction, what would that something be? Imagine if you could walk up to somebody, or interact briefly with somebody (bartender, waitress, barber, etc.) and rattle a few strange sounding sentences that would leave them unable to get their minds off you. Who would you enjoy doing this to?

Uncontrollable Laughter

Humor is often based on two ideas whose meaning is confusing. Why is six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine! Because that last sentence has two different meanings which are both true in two completely different situations (seven eight nine and seven ate nine) that triggers our "humor response."  Most people rely on memorized jokes for this, but with plenty of the patterns and techniques you'll be learning, you'll be able to do this at will. While out searching for marks, who would you like to make not only laugh, but think of you fondly for making an otherwise boring day interesting?

Street Hypnosis Journal

Sometimes you come across an opportunity, but only realize it after it happened. Other times you think of something spontaneous in the moment, and it works perfectly. And there are plenty of places to copy ideas from (movies, TV, overheard conversations) that serve as perfect material that you can put a hypnotic twist on. A street hypnosis journal will be a very useful tool that will dramatically accelerate your progress. At this point, consider writing down potential marks, and how you'd like to affect that mark. Humor, desire, confusion, or a hidden insult. Going through the rest of this guide with specific intentions for specific people will make it much easier to mentally try out the techniques. Consider pausing in your reading, and think of a few specific people and how you'd like to affect them before learning the actual tricks. This will give you a visualization target, rather than thinking of these techniques in the abstract.

The Handshake Interrupt Theory

This is perhaps the most well-known trick from street hypnosis. The idea is simple. Our human brain thinks of the handshake as one singular event. So, when you reach out with your hand while introducing yourself, even a complete stranger will usually reciprocate. This is an automatic response that doesn't wake up the conscious critic very much. Generally, what happens is the person sees you and hears you, and figures they will wait until after introductions are exchanged to figure out what to do. This provides a very brief window to play around. The typical strategy is to reach out, as if to grasp their hand and shake it like normal. Then as soon as they put their hand out, you briefly take it, lift it up and hold their palm in front of their face, and begin speaking rapidly. The idea is that before they even know what's going on, you've interrupted this automatic process (hence the name) and can do anything you want. This is the general idea of all the techniques in this guide. You will begin a communication which they expect to be a certain way, only it won't be "that way." The problem with the handshake interrupt is it's a pretty clumsy process, it involves touching them, and physically moving their body. This requires a lot of confidence and skill. It might work, but it might not. A lot can go wrong. Luckily, the physical handshake is not only thing that can trigger their automatic response. In fact, the handshake interrupt, despite its fame, is perhaps the most difficult. Using language patterns are a lot easier, since people need to "go inside" a lot more to process them. "Going inside" can be difficult if some weird guy you just met is pushing your hand in front of your face!

Well Formed Grammar

We humans expect language to come at us in a certain structure. If it sounds completely different, for example somebody comes up and starts speaking gibberish, we assume they're crazy. But if somebody says something that sort of "sounds" normal, but at the same time, sounds confusing, we have to use a lot of brain power to figure out what's going on. And if you keep slamming people with these strange sounding sentences, which sort of sound normal, but at the same time something's not quite right (just like optical illusions) their brains will tend to go in loops trying to make sense of it.

Referential Index

Our language has built in efficiencies. Like in last sentence, the word "our" is taken to mean "us humans." A great way to cause instant confusion is use these "references" (usually in the form of pronouns) where it's not clear who the heck you are referring to. For example, if I say, "Bob and I went fishing, and he caught a doozy," it's clear who "he" refers to. But what if I say, "Bob, his brother and I went to 7-11 and he wanted to buy a hot dog but he didn't have any money so we got into a big fight and the guy ended up letting us have it for free." In this story there is three, maybe four (if you assume there's a "guy" working at 7-11). But who is whom in this story is confusing. Who wanted a hot dog, Bob or his brother? Who didn't any money? Who exactly is the guy who let us have it for free?

How to Use

Think of somebody who you know (hopefully from your list of potential marks) to use this pattern on. Think of an event that involved several people. This can be an event that you were involved in, or an event that you read about or even one you saw on TV. Make sure the event has a few people in it, and something "conversation worthy" happened. Introduce this story to your friend, but only start with the names of one or two people. Keep track of the rest in your mind, but only refer them as "he, she, they, etc." For example, let's say you were having lunch with three friends, and you had a very cute waitress. Let's say the real story was something like this:

You, Jeff, Marina, and Rick had lunch and your waitress was a cute girl names Hitomi. And let's say Rich has a girlfriend named Lucy, but Rich was clearly interested in Hitomi, and was openly flirting with her. Further, let's assume that Marina and Lucy are friends, and Marina was giving Rich a hard time about Rick's flirting with Hitomi, the waitress. Let's say a couple of times, Marina said something like, "If Lucy finds out, she's going to be angry with you, Rick!" Here's how you could tell it from a street hypnotist point of view.

Oh man, you should have seen her at lunch the other day with Rick and Jeff. We had this gorgeous waitress and he was flirting with her, but she started to get angry because she's friends with his girlfriend and she said that if she found out she'd be angry and he said she wouldn't know since the restaurant was clear on the other side of town, but I think he felt guilty so he stopped but damn she was hot!

The best way to deliver this would be with as much enthusiasm as possible, and right when you deliver the "damn she was hot!" line you turn and walk away.

Homework

Practice taking the plots of your favorite movies, and replacing the characters with "this guy," "this other guy," "this girl," this other lady," and then regular pronouns (he, she, they, etc.). Replace the events with "this thing, that thing, etc." Replace the locations with, "this place, this other place, etc." Practice delivering a quick summary of the plot. The trick is to deliver it with plenty of enthusiasm, to generate interest in your listener, but to speak quickly so they won't be able to interrupt you to ask what in the heck you are talking about.

How to Use

Next time somebody asks you what you did last weekend, or the night before, give them the confusing movie review. Speak enthusiastically and rapidly, and end with, "Dude you gotta see it, it's amazing!"

Congruence

The key to delivering these effectively is holding the idea that you are speaking with enough clarity so that everybody can understand. This is easy, and a lot of fun. When you are delivering your description, see it in your mind's eye as clearly as you can. Imagine that simply by visualizing Spiderman and saying, "this guy," they'll be able to see the same mental image. The secret to delivering all these techniques is to hold the frame that you are making perfect sense. If you deliver these, but are nervous, or smirking, they'll know you're putting them on. The key to effective street hypnosis is to hold so much congruence, to believe you are speaking perfect sense in a perfectly appropriate way, to get them to start to question their own brain, rather than realizing this is a joke on your part. The easiest way to do that is to represent the images of the movie (Spiderman, etc.) that are very clear inside your head, with very vague descriptions outside your head. Literally (yes literally) say "This Guy" as if you really were saying "Spiderman."

Ambiguity Patterns

One of the famous examples of ambiguity is the sentence, "Time flies like an arrow." What does this mean? It could have several meanings! Let's consider them:

Time Flies Like an Arrow

Time goes by really fast. In fact, it goes as fast as an arrow. Therefore, time flies like an arrow.

Time Flies Like an Arrow

There all kinds of flies. House flies. Fruit flies, and the little-known time flies. House flies like houses, since that's where they live. Fruit flies, they like things like apples and bananas. But time flies are the strangest bunch. They like this one arrow. Not all arrows, only one special arrow. Therefore, time flies like an arrow. (Nobody is sure whether this one arrow feels lucky to be liked by all time flies).

Time Flies Like an Arrow

You've just accepted a job in the national science laboratory, in the speed measuring department. Your job is to time how fast flies fly across the room. There's a piece of tape on one side of the room (on the floor) and a piece of tape on the other side. Your job is to measure how long it takes flies to go from one end to the room to the other. You ask your boss, "Hey, what's the best way to time flies?" He responds by asking you about your previous job. Your previous job was working for the national archery center, and you measured the speed of arrows as they went from archer to target. (You took this fly-timing job because it was a lot safer). Your boss replies to, "Time flies like an arrow," meaning to measure the speed of flies the same way you measured the speed of an arrow.

Time Flies Like an Arrow

Same situation, working in the lab where you are timing flies as they buzz across the room. Only you don't have any experience. You explain this to your boss, who takes you next door. There is an arrow standing there, and the arrow has a stopwatch in his hand and is timing flies as they fly across the room.

"Just watch this guy and do it how he does it," your boss says.

"You mean time flies like an arrow?" You ask.

"Yeah, measure the speed of flies just like this arrow is measuring the speed of flies."

"Got it," you reply, wondering how in the heck you managed to wander into this goofy hallucination.

Of course, if you walk up to a stranger on the street and say, "Hey, time flies like an arrow!" They will probably just nod their head.

"Yep, sure does!" In order to ambiguity to be funny, it's got to be purposely constructed so they expect one meaning, but then another one shows up. Here's a famous one by Groucho Marx:

Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know!

Different Types of Ambiguity

Scope

The first kind is something called "Scope Ambiguity." This is when you have a sentence like, "blue flowers and trees." Does this mean blue flowers, and regular trees, or blue flowers and blue trees? Most people will simply assume one or the other, based on the context. But you can purposely add on another sentence that will make them go back and revisit their imagined picture.

I saw this weird painting with blue flowers and trees, and another painting with red flowers but the trees were normal color, I don't know why they do things like that when the other way is better.

Notice we added in some ideas from the previous chapter. Imagine saying this to somebody who absent mindedly asked you in the elevator how your weekend was.

How to Build

Always be on the lookout for these types of opportunities. Any time you see two pairs of things (people, animals, plants, etc.) and they can be described using an adjective. Then make two pairs, where one is both having the quality of that adjective, and the other is separate. You saw a happy mother and daughter and another happy mother whose daughter wasn't angry like the previous one. You saw a girl wearing a red dress and shoes and another girl wearing a red dress but her shoes were also red.

Syntactic

Expanding ideas can lead to growing understanding. What does "expanding ideas" mean? Does it mean ideas that are expanding on their own, or does it refer to the process of taking a regular idea and making it bigger somehow? (Maybe filling it with air or something.). What about growing understanding? An understanding that is getting bigger on its own, or somebody who has an understanding garden in their backyard, and their hobby is growing understanding? Wait, what does an understanding garden mean? A garden that grows understanding, or a garden that is sympathetic and understands when you make a mistake (like forget to water it or something...).

How to Build

Take any verb-noun combo, and put the verb in the "-ing" form. The verb has to be capable of being both transitive and intransitive verb, meaning it can use an object or stand on its own. For example, "Talk" is intransitive, since you don't need an object. But it can't take a direct object. So, if you said, "talking people," there would only be one way to interpret it. Similar to the previous ambiguity, you say one sentence that has a "preferred" meaning in most people's minds, but then say something later to contradict it.

Understanding science can lead to expanding opportunities, because every time I mess up in the science lab, and science is very understanding, it helps me realize that the whole time I was figuring out my mistake, the opportunities in the back room kept getting bigger and bigger.

How to Deliver

You can deliver these as a joke, like Grouch Marx, and they'll get a laugh. But a more hypnotic way to deliver this is to say the above science story, and then continue as if it made perfect sense. Continue talking about your lab instructor and a couple other people, using the words "he, they, etc." when referring to them. For example, if you're hanging out at a party, and somebody mentions anything about science, you might say:

Yeah, understanding science can lead to expanding opportunities, because every time I messed up in the science lab, in school, and science is very understanding, it helps me realize that the whole time I was figuring out my mistake, the opportunities in the back room kept getting bigger and bigger. But eventually he made us clean it up, and it wasn’t long before half the time we were spending doing experiments and the other half cleaning up their mess. After a while I thought we could be paid extra or something, don't you hate it when people take advantage of you like that?

Strategy

Now that we've got just a couple of techniques, we can introduce our first broad strategy. And that is to take anything that comes up in a conversation (in this example, science) and use it to branch off into conversational hypnosis la-la-land, and then come back to a regular sounding conversation topic, in this case getting taken advantage of by other people. If you can deliver the above with congruence (imagine that you are actually talking about real physical things instead of imaginary objects) everybody listening will be trying desperately to hold on to their sanity, while looking around and wondering if they are the only ones whose brains just took a slight vacation.

Structure

First, come up with as many of these ambiguity pairs as possible.

Growing people causes shrinking worry

Understanding science leads to growing opportunities

Hypnotizing people can lead to shrinking thoughts

Seducing girls cause increasing smiles

Increasing ideas lead to decreasing uncertainty

Understanding (subject) leads to increasing (noun)

Then get clear on all the different possibilities. When you come up with the sentences the first time, you, as well as most people, will have a "go to" meaning. So, take the meaning that sounds the most logical, and force yourself to consider another meaning. Then take that other meaning, and talk about the ideas in that other meaning, as if they are physical objects. Then take the first "normal sounding" exit that presents itself. Now you've got an entrance, (one of the two nouns in the first sentence) to start from, and the exit, the normal sounding thing it leads to.

More Ambiguity

Whenever we use ambiguity of any kind, you can imagine it as a technique to use up brain processor time. Every time we aren't sure what somebody else means, we take extra brain time to try and consider which possibility is most correct. Most people use ambiguities accidentally, and the person listening can figure out the meaning by context. By using these purposefully and specifically, you can have a lot of fun.

Phonological Ambiguity

This is when you have a word that sounds the same but has different meanings. Many jokes rely on this technique (like the seven-ate-nine joke). Or here's another side splitter: What did the beach say when the tide came in? Long time no sea. Sea sounds like see, and when you're talking, it sounds funny. But since these are based on single words, it's kind of hard to use these on their own to come up with enough brain confusion to get in there and play around. However, you can combine these with another type of ambiguity, which is very, very powerful if you can deliver it congruently.

Punctuation Ambiguity

This is when you connect two sentences with one word. The last word in the first sentence is the first word in the second sentence. Consider the following collection of words:

Last night I was going down to the ice cream shopping is a favorite hobby of mine.

If I were to say this out loud, you would think I was finishing up when I got to the word, "shop," but it not only wasn't the end of a sentence, it wasn't even the word you might have expected, and it was the beginning of another sentence. Now, if you said the above sentence, paused at the end and looked around and expected some kind of applause or public recognition for your linguistic geniusness, people would realize right away it was an attempt at humor, and as such, it's not really that funny.

Delivery Is Crucial

That's why the delivery of these is as important, if not more so, than the words and techniques themselves. At no point should you expect any feedback. It's very common for people to learn techniques like these, use them, and then look around at their friends with an "Aren't I clever?" expression on their faces. If you do this, you will evaporate every effect these have. These techniques are very powerful, but only if you use them with your listeners and marks not knowing what you are doing. These aren't like jokes where you say them and them get people to laugh, and know WHY they are laughing. At most, they might suspect you are speaking strangely, but not really sure how exactly you are doing it. This is much harder than it sounds.

The Human Ego

Your biggest enemy in being able to deliver these with maximum effectiveness is not your fear of "getting caught" which you may now suspect. It's the need to get public recognition. When people do magic tricks, everybody knows they are doing magic tricks and the person doing the tricks gets public props for their skills. If you tell jokes or are otherwise humorous, people are going to know you are making a conscious attempt at being funny, and will tell you they like your sense of humor. But using street hypnosis absolutely requires secrecy. Remember, this is not direct hypnosis, where everybody knows you are using hypnosis, including the person being hypnotized. These are only effective if people expect that you are speaking normally, but then in trying to pay attention to what you are saying, they get confused and don't know why. Once you get over your nervousness, and are able to deliver these with effectiveness, not being able to "take credit" is going to be the most difficult part.

Homework Practice

The technique of Punctuation Ambiguity is very simple. You don't need to even memorize a lot. So, it's a great way to deliver these without needing to get any response. The delivery technique is simple. Look for any opportunity to deliver two or more sentences joined together with a connecting word, that serves as the ending of one sentence, and the beginning of another. Consider these exercises as building up your "temporary ego suppression" muscle. For example, consider a sentence like the following:

Yesterday I was eating a sandwich bread is really delicious when it's toasted.

It sort of sounds like it's connected, meaning the "toasted" part could sort of be connected to the sandwich part, but then again, it sounds like a different idea completely. if you just said that sentence by itself, people would look at you funny and maybe ask for clarification. Then you might start smirking and everybody knew you were trying to be clever. Avoid this at all costs! Instead, start talking about sandwiches, and once you make the transition, talk about eating toast. The idea is to get everybody else thinking that their brains somehow went offline, and you did absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. For example, a typical conversation may go like this:

You

I'm pretty hungry.

Mark

Yeah, I could eat something.

You

How about a sandwich?

Mark

Yeah, I could go for a sandwich.

You

Yesterday I was eating a sandwich bread is really delicious when it's toasted. In fact, I think toast is good with everything, not just bacon and eggs.

Mark

What?

You

Bacon and eggs, you eat those for breakfast foods are starting to become more popular.

Mark

?

You

Like bagels, which are also great toasted, although if you get them fresh from the shop, fresh out of the oven, you don't need to toast them since they're warm. Hey, let's do that!

Mark

What?

You

Go to the bagel shop!

Mark

For sandwiches?

You

Who said anything about sandwiches, let's get some bagels and cream cheese!

If you maintain your composure, your friend will wonder if they had a senior moment, or if they left part of their brain at home. For them, it really will be a strange experience. For you, it's very easy to practice, and the one skill of maintaining your frame, or composure, will be essential for utilizing the rest of the techniques in this guide. This is a very easy technique to practice. The idea is simple.

How to Construct

Just look for any opportunity to bridge two sentences with one word. A major component of all these techniques is to keep talking, so your mark will remain off balance. Avoid stopping at all costs. Once you finish the second half the sentence, keep going on that second topic, as if you never said the joining sentence. Don't announce that you are going to do this. This has to be a secret you keep between you and yourself. Just drop one of these sentences in a conversation, and leave no space for them to think about what you just said. Keep talking, like in the example above. If they ask if you did something, just look at them with a blank expression, and ask, "What do you mean, we were talking about..." and then mention the second half of the strange sentence. If they remember the first half (they won't likely be able to) just say, "Right, we were talking about X, and then we started talking about Y" where X was the topic of the first half of the goofy sentence, and Y is the topic of the second half. Leave out the exact method you used to shift from one idea to the next.

Practice

Be sure to practice this simple technique, and the cover-up, as often as you can. Keep in mind there are really three things you are practicing. One is the technique itself. Two is the ability to keep talking even though their faces suddenly took on a puzzled expression. Third is to maintain your composure, or frame, in case anybody asks if something odd just happened. These three skills will serve as a powerful foundation for the skills in the rest of this guide.

Combinations and Examples

We've covered a lot of ground. Let's take a breather and review the techniques we've learned, and then we'll look a few examples. However, be careful of memorized patterns. These are helpful, but only as a tool to see how you can combine them together. Think of each of these individual patterns like a boxer would of a few punches and their combinations. Most boxers learn the punches individually, and then a few combinations. Beyond that it's kind of difficult, since you never know how any particular opponent will respond. When you use these patterns on real unsuspecting people, some may just stand there and stare at you. Others may start laughing but not know why. Others might look nervous, as if they are about to scream. Being able to read their body language and expressions while delivering these, so you can alter your communication in real time, is just as important as the patterns themselves. Consider the simple Punctuation Ambiguity patterns from the last chapter, and some of the combined patterns in this chapter as training wheels. Memorize them, look for an opportunity to use them, and then drop them in a conversation. Then simply continue as if nothing happened. This is a skill most people have zero experience with, so it will seem a little strange, even as the deliverer of these techniques.

Referential Index

This is when you drop in a bunch of pronouns, (he, she, they, etc.) whose reference (the proper noun of who they are referring to) is unclear.

Ambiguity Patterns

We've covered four kinds of ambiguity. Scope (Red flowers and trees), Phonological (long time no sea), Syntactic (understanding science) and Punctuation (the two-sentence technique). With just these simple ideas, you can create some pretty confusing minds. And confusing minds can certainly lead to growing entertainment, since once you understand how to grow entertainment, you can repeat the process over and over under is a common betting technique in Vegas, where I went with my brother and a couple of his friends, and he was talking to his cute girl who looked like his sister, and she said they didn't agree that confusing minds should be left alone at nighttime is when all the strange people come outside to playboy is no longer publishing pictures of naked ladies don't really like it when you use these patterns on them since they are too busy focusing on taking a good picture with the camera they just bought with their winnings in Las Vegas. Wait, what? Exactly! I would not recommend you use these techniques while playing blackjack in Las Vegas, because the dealers might think you are doing something fishy, and then call security to escort you out. Nobody likes to be hypnotized while they are dealing cards.

OK, see what I did there? I started off with a regular sounding sentence that followed the regular rules of logic and grammar. Then I started stuffing and stacking lots of different techniques, then I went back to a regular sentence/grammar/logic structure. This is the best way to practice these. Keep expanding the middle part out, where you leave logic and well-formed grammar behind. The longer you can keep speaking in the middle part, without people knowing what you're up to, the better.

Example Scripts - Memorize These Word for Word - Practice Whenever Possible

Last night I was watching a movie stars are really out of touch when they try to talk about life for normal people is getting harder and harder, especially with the economy the way it is. I saw this guy and this economist on a TV talk show and he said they don't think it's going to be getting better any time soon. I mean I hope it does but I just don't know.

I was listening to this guy on the radio the other day and they were saying how expanding economies can lead to growing populations, but I don't know how he knew they weren't going to the beach is something I liked to do when I was a kid, but I don't know if I'll be able to afford a beach house at the rate things are going. I mean houses are getting really expensive!

The other day I was in the elevator with these two guys and he started talking about his sister and she said that growing flowers are like raising livestock, but I used to live next to these wildflowers and they didn't need anybody to grow them, and I wanted to interrupt but I remember my grandma said that interrupting people don't make good friends are the kind of people you want around when things start to become difficult. I was going to say that but we came to my floor and I had to get off, so I never got to find how what she said next. Don't you hate that, when you overhear an interesting conversation but you have to leave before you find out what happened?

I was at this bar the other night, I was sitting near these two gorgeous girls really have it easy, I mean, they just show up and guys buy them drinks all night? I used to have a buddy that did that, drink all night, but his doctor said that drinking alcohol leads to growing problems. I don't know why anybody would want to grow problems, I mean we have enough as it is, right? But when I was a kid I used to think that drinking alcohol and rubbing alcohol were the same thing, I mean I wondered why they kept some in the liquor cabinet and some in the medicine cabinet, but then when I took science in high school I found out the difference between ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol. Imagine what it was like back in the old days before they had science, that must have been pretty confusing, right?

I went on this fishing trip once, these three guys, and my brother, and one of them told me that he said when he was young, that cooking fish lead to growing appetites, and I didn't know that fish could cook, I mean we were little kids, so we used to believe all kinds of strange stuff has been happening lately, especially with all the weird politics that have been going on. I wonder if this is because we're entering into some kind of new time period or something. That's what he said, anyway, while we were sitting there waiting for the fish that we never caught, that we're going through some society wide phase transition or something. He was kind of weird guy, I don't know if he was my brother's friend or his friend's friend, but at least we had somebody interesting to listen to while we weren't catching any of the fish that we never cooked. I don't really like eating fish anyway, that's like that movie I saw about piranhas, they came into this swimming pool and ate everybody, it was like a comedy or something.

Because

A funny thing about our human brains is we often confuse cause and effect. So much so there's a phrase in Latin (a really old language) that describes this. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Which means we see two things happening in sequence, and we assume that the first thing caused the second thing. Researchers have found this tendency in children as young as six months. Evolutionary psychologists believe that having this "cause-effect" generator in our brains makes thinking a lot more efficient, especially back in the days when life was physically dangerous. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you happen to be) this gets in the way our logical decision making. What's worse, when we use any "cause-effect" language or thinking in our decision making, it feels logical, even if the cause-effect statement is based on complete nonsense. If you're a medical researcher, one of the easiest ways to get government grant money (realizing that goofs in the government aren't exactly rocket scientists) is to demonstrate any "linkage" between anything and human health. The problem is that correlation doesn't mean causation. Just because they find a correlation between people who are obese and consumption of diet soda doesn't mean that diet soda causes obesity. But that's what it feels like when we see the headline, "Diet Soda Linked to Obesity."

Social Experiment

Some researchers decided to test this. (The cause-effect part, not the obese people drinking diet soda part). They had a lady waiting in line to make copies. She asked if she could cut in the front. Most of the time they people waiting said no. Next, she tried using the magic word, "because." She said, "Can I cut in line because my car is parked in the red." Most people let her cut in line. Then she said something really silly. "Can I cut in line because I have copies to make." Again, most people let her cut in line. It's almost as if our brains suddenly turn off when we hear the word "because." And because this is a book on street hypnosis, not on being more like a Vulcan, we are going to use this capacity of human thinking to con the crap out of people. No, not con people. Have fun playing with people in mutually beneficial ways. Because conning people is wrong, and because everybody enjoys laughing at our own silliness. And because you know the difference between using these skills to get money or sex from people and just having fun, I can trust you to know the difference between right and wrong, right?

Adding Because

Just slipping in the word "because" will add another layer of confusion. Consider this sentence:

Expanding economies lead to growing populations, and growing populations takes up a lot of resources are something that gets more expensive when economies are growing, so you think the two would cancel each other out, right?

That sounds kind of silly, a little bit confusing. If you kept on talking, people would have a tendency to "look back" mentally at what you just said. But when you add on the word "because" at the end of it, and start talking about something completely serious, the word "because" somehow forces them to look at everything after the word "because" since now you're added some pseudo-logic to the sentence, and that somehow forces people subconsciously to imagine they know what's going on, when in reality, everybody is just as confused as they were a minute ago.

For example:

Expanding economies lead to growing populations, and growing populations takes up a lot of resources are something that gets more expensive when economies are growing, so you think the two would cancel each other out, because when you consider the effects of supply and demand, resources will tend to increase in price as the economy expands, which kind of contradicts that seemingly intuitive idea about how expanding the economy will lead to a concomitant growth in population.

Try this out and see what happens. Because you used the word "because" followed by a bunch of scientific sounding language, people will have a hard time NOT nodding their heads in agreement, as if you are now a collection of the world's top scientists, instead of a street hypnotist surrounded by a group of baffled strangers doing their best to appear logical and on top of things.

How Is This Useful?

You can use "because" on its own, or you can drop it in, and quickly speak normally when you think people are starting to suspect you are up to no good.

Creating Connections

The word "because" even if it's implied can cause implied links between ideas. And whenever you imply a link between two ideas, people will unavoidably consider both ideas. Here's the fun part. Unless they find quick and direct proof the link is incorrect, they'll go along with it. Which means you can say some pretty crazy stuff. How do you "imply" a "because" link? Any words that implies "cause and effect." This means that. Doing this leads to doing that. This is why using "connecting words" between ambiguities is so wonderful and making their brains spin around.

Growing economies lead to increasing populations.

Expanding awareness cause deepening trances.

Questioning authority creates growing discontent.

These are all in the form, "Very vague idea leads to another very vague idea." Since it's very hard to disprove that a very vague idea doesn't lead to another very vague idea (especially when each vague idea could mean a couple of different things since they are purposely ambiguous). These will give people that familiar, "Yeah, that is SO true!" feeling. And when you drop in the word "because" after that, and put in some pseudo-logic that sounds "different" than what you just said, this will twist their brain into a pretzel. And as I'm sure you well know, twisting brains generate enlightening entertainment.

How to Build

Take any of the short patterns we've covered, then add the word "because" and then add some pseudo-logic. Pseudo-logic means simply describing things as if you were some kind of academic or scientist. Use any medical vocabulary, economic or finance vocabulary. Put these after the word "because" and they will they think they are in the presence of a genius.

Examples

The other day I was at the mall with my brother and this other guy and he started talking to this really cute girl and she said that collapsing economies lead to increasing uncertainty, but then he asked her why would anybody want to purposely increase uncertainty, because it's been well documented that when people are uncertain about the future they spend less money, which is the very definition of an economic contraction. I don't know why people talk about things they don't really understand.

I was watching this debate on YouTube and these girls were talking about how it's not a big deal if you lie to get somebody to buy dinner for somebody, especially since growing economic uncertainty can lead to diminishing social values, but then she said that it's really the other way around, because once you accept an offer for dinner, it's like a social contract, and if we want to maintain the integrity of our social fabric it's important to at least follow through on what you say you'll follow through on, right? Because otherwise why even bother having laws if we aren't going to follow them.

I was reading this book about a guy who went to Tibet and it's really crazy how they don't tell us everything that's going on over there life is a lot different than here, which is why he said you have to be careful, because if you don't understand the local customs, and you violate one of their implied rules of social ethics, you have nobody to blame but yourself, which is what most people do, especially Americans, since they think it's really the same way everywhere. But the world is definitely changing, and I'm not sure if this is going to last much longer.

Fun with Linguistic Presuppositions

These are a tool that you absolutely MUST have in your tool bag of tricks. We use these all the time, but in a defense way. The structure of a linguistic presupposition is what it says on the box. (Box? Dude, what box?) It is something that is presupposed (assumed to be true) and it's done so grammatically. In NLP, they have a bunch of "presuppositions" things that are assumed to be true about people. Like, "the map is not the territory." If you've ever taken geometry, you needed to do a bunch of proofs. But in order to prove something you have to have the building blocks. In mathematics, they've got a bunch of presuppositions or assumptions. Things they assume are true, (like two points make up a line, every angle is between zero three hundred sixty degrees, etc.) But these are stated all by themselves. Your math teacher would write them on the board, tell you to memorize them, and then use them to prove larger ideas. Linguistic presuppositions are bit different. They are hidden in sentences, and in order to make sense of the sentence (or even think about enough to keep up with the conversation) you've just got to assume it's true. For example, let's say I wanted to convince you that I have a talking kangaroo. I could just say, "Hey, I have a talking kangaroo." You (hopefully) would smirk and wonder what the joke is. But if I said this:

My talking kangaroo is learning French.

It would take a lot more "brain power" to process that and be able to tell me I'm crazy. Just that sentence creates a bit of uncertainty, and part of your brain would be waiting for some kind of explanation. I've "hidden" the idea of me having a talking kangaroo in there with the idea that my talking kangaroo is learning French. Suppose I added more confusion:

My talking kangaroo is learning French because there is a speech contest coming up but I don't think he's going to have enough time.

Now, imagine what would happen if you were standing at a party, and you were hanging out with a group of three or four people, all just getting acquainted. People were talking about work, school, etc., and you just dropped in the above sentence, and you said it with a complete congruence. Some people would be wondering how in the heck this could possibly be true. Some people might even be wondering if they actually heard you correctly. Eventually somebody might even ask you if you have a talking kangaroo. But suppose you "hid" that sentence (which itself is hiding the idea of a talking kangaroo) inside a slightly bigger cluster of word confusion:

Yeah, I have this professor who told us that learning skills can lead to growing opportunities, but sometimes it's the other way around. I mean learning skills can also lead to growing uncertainty, because when you learn new skills, it can go either way, for example, my talking kangaroo is learning French because of this speech contest we are having, and I don't think he's going to have enough time. I mean, don't you hate it when the professors think their class is the only one you're taking and they just pile on all kinds of extra work, I don't know we're going to finish everything on time, especially this latest paper they've given us.

Now, as you read this now and imagine saying it in front of real people, you may be thinking that nobody would ever let you get away with such a thing. But if you delivered this with total congruence, and you actually started to get visibly frustrated when talking about the paper at the end, the other people would start to nod their heads in agreement.

Why It's Easy to Confuse

The human mind hates confusion. But it also hates something else just as much, and that is calling attention to themselves, even if there is the slightest chance they are wrong. While you are talking, you'll get to the part about the talking kangaroo. That will send off warning bells. Part of them will want to laugh and look around. But if you are being congruent while you deliver this, there won't be enough "critical mass" of people wanting to interrupt you. The more seconds tick by after you've dropped the "talking kangaroo" confusion bomb, the more they'll be weighing the pros and cons of interrupting you. If they are wrong, they're going to look really silly. So, the longer you go, the more things are running through their mind. Maybe they misunderstood, maybe you really have a reason, maybe it would be better to just sit there and wait until you finish talking, and hopefully somebody else will ask. But then you start talking about something that everybody can agree on. That professors who give out too much homework are mean. This gives them an "out." A way to forget about that whole talking kangaroo nonsense.

Extreme Example

Don't worry, you won't to say such extreme things. But the point of this is show just how many layers of confusion you can create in a very short amount of time. Also, realize that at this point in our journey along the street hypnosis learning curve, we are still in the "generating confusion" area. And this in and off itself is pretty fun. Most people spit out simple sounding gibberish. Then you come along and drop these massive clusters of word confusion bombs, that drop on their consciousness like a fog of forgetfulness. Not only is this fun to do, but it's a great way to make sure they never forget you. But we're just at the tip of the iceberg. Creating confusing is one thing. But when you learn how to use these linguistic presuppositions, you can hide any idea you want inside of a larger structure. Sure, nobody is ever going to believe in a talking kangaroo. Unless you're talking about a comic book you're writing, or an animation character you're building, people will think you're crazy. But think of all the things that MIGHT be true, that you could hide inside blobs of word confusion!

This is your next set of homework assignments. Take that list of marks you've hopefully been collecting, and start to think of a list of ideas you'd like them to believe is true. What ideas, you ask? How about ideas like this:

You are sexy.

You are brilliant.

Many people are really aliens.

The Earth is really flat.

Avocados are really an advanced and intelligent life form.

We're all really in a TV show like "The Truman Show."

We're all stuck in a real matrix.

The Martians will be here any minute.

Or whatever other crazy and goofy ideas might be fun to "temporarily" convince people off.

Presuppositions

There are several different linguistic structures of these presuppositions. Think of them like a martial arts or boxing move. They are much more effective if you can choose two or three as your own personal "go to" moves during conversations. We'll get into some specific strategies later, in this chapter we'll introduce the structures of the easiest to use. Keep in mind that people use these all the time, they aren't language patterns that will look or sound strange. But people use them unconsciously, and defensively. They use them to assert things in a way they don't want questioned. This may sound a bit strange to see it described, but most of us say plenty of things every day that, at the same time, we want others to accept as valid, but are not comfortable defending. We tend to use these unconsciously anytime we want to get an idea across, but would also feel uncomfortable if somebody put us on the spot and said, “Why exactly do you believe that?” Most of the time these are opinions we hear from others, and they sound nice, but we wouldn’t be able to explain exactly why we believe them. We’ll cover the most effectives ones here briefly, and then later in much more detail.

Pseudo Cleft Sentences

Huh? These are anything of the form, "What is X about Y is..." Consider these sentences:

What sucks about being a student is that you have tons of homework to do all the time.

The worst part about being a student is all the homework.

What is likely the biggest drawback to being a student is the massive amount of homework one needs to do.

The focus of the sentence is the part about having to do homework all the time. But the real thing the speaker is presupposing (and subconsciously hoping nobody takes issue with) is that being a student sucks. It would take a lot of confidence to listen to any of those statements, and then say:

Actually, I like being a student.

That sounds nearly argumentative. Most people would agree, especially if the speaker understood that his or her listeners also had a lot of homework.

Comparatives

This is when you take a comparative sentence, "Pine trees are taller than Christmas trees" and simply remove one of the nouns. It sounds logical, but it will still make their brains spin around in circles, since technically, you’re not saying exactly what is more of whatever adjective you are using.

The Federal Reserve conspiracy is much more intricate.

The current generation of aliens are much more human-like.

People that have decided to accept the truth are much happier.

Questions

These are those rhetorical questions people like to ask to sound intelligent. But when carefully craft your hypnotic questions, you can get their minds wandering in any direction you like.

I wonder how many ways this conspiracy will affect us?

How much longer do you think the matrix that enslaves our mind will survive before we are finally free?

What's the best way to tell girls that I'm not just interested in sex?

Repetitive Verbs and Adverbs

These are a lot of fun, and extremely versatile. Use them with words like repeat, return, replace, restore, renew, etc.

I guess we can also return to the days before many people were aware of the alien infestation.

I suppose I can go back to the days when I took girls requests for sex at face value.

I don't think I'll ever go back to before, when I didn't quite comprehend the complexity of the true nature of the Federal Reserve.

I don't know if I'll return to seeing avocados as only fruit, now I've seen that restricted documentary and all of the unbelievable scientific evidence.

Relative Clauses

These are the technical name for some of those "weasel phrases" that have become popular. It allows you to attribute a crazy idea to a person of genuine authority, without having to be specific. We'll get into how to leverage things like authority and social proof later. This pattern is anything of the form, "Noun + who, which, that."

Scientists that have seen the evidence are very careful when they speak around avocados.

Those that have found proof of the nature of our real existence need to be very careful to keep it secret, or else they might be disappeared.

Scientists in government mind control programs know how incredibly easy it is to wipe somebody's memory with just a few carefully spoken words.

Cleft Sentences

These anything in the form "It was..." or "It is..."

I can tell it is your unique thought processes that puts you at such risk of mental interception by government authorities.

They believe it's the unique and still yet to be understood center that gives avocados their intelligence.

I don't know if it's the way I stand, or maybe the way I look at certain girls, but they seem to only want to use me for sex.

Change of Place Verbs

These are any verbs which indicate physical movement from one place to another. We can use them when talking about "moving into new ideas" or "leaving old ideas behind."

When I left behind the simple world view that they teach in school and really opened my eyes, I was astonished to realize just how different things really are.

I'll never be able to go back to seeing avocados the same way again. I can't even go into that section of the supermarket knowing what I know now.

Any romantic ideas I had about women are gone for good. I had to leave them behind I found out what women really want from me.

Change of State Verbs

These are describing anything that undergoes any kind of transformation. Change, transform, turn into, become, etc.

It is amazing what the world is turning into because of the recent extraterrestrial discoveries.

Now that we know what avocados really are, I wonder what society will become next?

Factive Verbs and Adjectives

These are the most fun. They describe the mental process of "becoming aware" or of "knowing" something, which in and of itself is pretty trance-like. Use with any words like odd, aware, know, realize, regret, believe, etc. They are particularly powerful when you allege that certain people "know" something, and the rest of us goofs are stumbling around in oblivion. If there's one thing people want to be, is inside of that secret group of cool people who know what's what. So, when you take any goofy idea you want to present to somebody, and put it as being known by only an advanced group of people, and they will want to be in that secret special group, so they will be much more likely to believe whatever idea you are carefully slipping inside their brain.

It's really odd how few people understand that our society is on the verge of extinction.

I'm starting to suspect that fewer people than I realized have a true understanding about the actual nature of avocados.

It's amazing how many people just don't want to even try to comprehend just how many people are not actually people, but imposters.

Commentary Adjectives

These are words like, luckily, happily, fortunately, etc. Whatever comes after them is going to be hard to argue with, unless it is exceptionally crazy.

Luckily, they are close to finding out how exactly avocados communicate with one another.

Fortunately, most people don't understand just how much we are being watched, otherwise they would become incredibly nervous, especially at home.

Happily, many people are unaware of the extent to which our society is really based on previously undiscovered technology.

Subordinate Clause of Time

These are anything that separates two events, or ideas, based on time. After, before, since. They also imply a cause-effect relationship, since us humans tend to think things that happen sequentially in time are somehow related.

Since they've been able to decipher the language of avocados, I'm going to be really careful at the grocery store from now on.

After they finally understand the ancient technology on which our society is based, I hope they'll be able stop this one from collapsing.

While they are busily trying to keep that first black hole they've accidentally created from eating the Earth, I hope they manage to contain the other one.

Brain Bending Sandwiches

Ok, so far, we've found some cool ways to make people's brains foggy and slippery. Now we've got a few tools we can use to slip in some crazy ideas. The way to combine these is straightforward, from a structural standpoint. Put in a few sentences of vague-brain inducing language. Then add in a few linguistic presuppositions wrapped around some crazy ideas like avocados are plotting to take over the Earth. Then finish off with some more vagueness. Then just to make sure they don't think you're trying out your routine for the local open mic night, add on some normal sounding statements, designed to get their overt agreement. See if you can see which is which in the following bits of purposeful confusion.

Take your time reading through the following cluster of mental anguish, and try to imagine listening to somebody say it. Imagine they are speaking with complete congruence, and looking around at all the other party guests while they speak. What do you think the response would be?

Yeah, I was watching this newscaster the other night, just reading the teleprompter without even realizing what he was saying. I mean you could totally tell that reading newscasters will lead to understanding people, which is kind of the whole point of the news, I mean I don't know why we read newscasters and not newspapers, right? Everybody knows that reading papers will lead to growing understanding, and if there's anything we need to grow in our society it's the understanding we have of the way things really are getting worse and worse, it's not even funny. It's amazing how many people don't realize the true state of what's really happening behind the scenes, I mean those that control the narrative must be having a lot of fun at our expense. I mean I can never go back to the simple way of looking at things now that we've entered into this next phase of our cultural shifts tend to last a long time, and nobody really knows what's going on until they are overwhelming situations tend to make people kind of just shrink down inside their mind control is more and more powerful, right? I mean I don't even know how many people haven't yet begun to realize just how deep this rabbit hole goes, I mean, who knows how much longer this is going to last? But once that guy stopped talking about the sports or whatever, I got bored. I meaning boring television definitely leads to growing uncertainty, and I didn't even know that TV's could become bored, but I guess boredom is really starting to become a problem. I ended up just going online and reading a bunch of blogs, I was up later than I was hoping. Don't you hate when that happens? You think you're going to go online for maybe ten minutes or something and next thing you know it's like four in the morning? Man, I need to be more careful, I definitely don't sleep on a regular schedule. Right?

It starts off normally enough. A guy talking about watching somebody on TV. Then it veers into hypo-la-la land and the guy is talking about secret conspiracies, society being secretly run by mind control experts, and then he ends up talking about missing out on sleep. The net effect of this will be a massive amount of confusion, probably some sleepiness (since the end result is going to be mental confusion along with the actual topic of losing sleep) and a struggle to comprehend what just happened. And a sinking suspicion that the speaker may be one of those mind control experts he was referring to. If you really want to have some fun, read that over a few times, until you can say it believably from memory, and say it to your friend over the phone. You can introduce this whenever talking about the common complaint that there is nothing good on TV.

Here's another example.

I was sitting in class yesterday and the professor was talking about this ancient culture, and I kind of dozed off, or zoned out or whatever. I mean ancient cultures are boring, right? And it's one thing that I always notice, again and again, is that boring cultures leads to growing migrations. I mean if you lived in a culture and they were getting super bored of you, they'd probably leave too. I don't really know how people grow migrations anyway, I guess it's some kind of political angle, where they try and recruit people from other countries or something, or maybe get people to move around inside the country. I guess growing dissent is also a good way to generate confusing politicians, but those guys are easy to confuse, since most of them are lawyers and they are purposely confusing anyway. But then he was talking about how some of the oldest cultures are still around, and they've been here this whole time. I mean, most people aren't aware that every culture is based on the same prototype that the scientists are still trying to study. I mean it's the complicated language embedded into the technology that makes it so confusing, and they're starting to believe that even though we keep going through various cultural changes, they are still here, working in the background. I suppose it's their advanced technology that has helped them to stay on Earth undetected for so long. And those same scientists are starting to understand that it's their extended life span that allows the very same people to observe humanity for as long as they've been doing the same thing over and over is super tedious, and I don't know if I'll be able to stay with that same professor, since he is so incredibly boring. I wish I could just read the book, and take the tests, but he doesn't have a book. He said the only way to get the information is to show up and listen to his lectures. Don't you hate professors like that? I mean all they do is make things hard on us on purpose. It's like they want us to be as confused as possible, right?

Another doozy. Sounds like a run of the mill complaint about a boring professor. Then it veers off into hallucination land and is talking about ancient cultures and some super-extraterrestrial beings that have been on Earth, maybe even never dying, who are around and watching us the whole time.

Drills Drills Drills

Now, at this point, you may be thinking, "Dude! No WAY am I going to memorize all that and be able to get it out with a straight face!" Don't worry, that was an extreme example, just to show you the fun you can have with language. Most people think of a few thoughts, and then spit out a jumble of words that hopefully go along with those thoughts. But just by taking a few of these techniques and putting a couple of sentences together, you'll create some really fun situations. Here are a couple more examples.

Yesterday I was watching TV and the guy said that expanding economies can lead to growing incomes, but damn, if I knew to grow my own income, I'd already be doing that. The only thing I know how to grow is mold in my kitchen sinks are usually installed in the housewives don't really exist anymore. But when you come to the conclusion that everything is fake anyway, you can just relax and have fun, right?

This guy at the bus stop told me that listening devices are increasing suspicion, which makes sense since we've always had ears, which I guess were the original listening devices, but it's amazing how many people aren't even aware of the invisible listening devices that surround us at all times, and it's not even recent, I mean they've been doing that since before they even got here. But after I got on the bus, that guy just kept standing there talking to the other person, when I thought he was talking to me the whole time.

Don't worry, we've got a lot more ground to cover. The most fun you can have with these techniques is with some of the later technology we'll get into. In our next chapter, we'll talk about some of the oldest tricks in the book when it comes to fading the human mind.

Two Ancient Powers of Persuasion

Humans have been around for a long time. Even before we invented language, there were a couple of hypnotic triggers that we were very susceptible to. What do we mean when we say, "hypnotic triggers?" Anything that makes us turn off our conscious, rational thinking minds, and makes us turn on our obedient, self-hypnotized mind. The actual reasons behind these two powerful triggers (and a few more just as powerful) are not exactly clear, since these same triggers show up in chimps, other primates and even chickens. And since we can't exactly ask chickens why they do the things they do, we've got to make some basic assumptions about us humans as animals, and our similarities to other animals.

Brain Power Is Expensive

When it comes to the economy of the human body, there is the money we spend (calories we burn) and the money we get (the food that we eat). And just like any company, (or individual without access to an infinite amount of credit cards), we have to always balance the budget. If we as humans burned more calories than ate, we'd vanish. So, in our long history, Mother Nature has built in plenty of economy devices, or things that save energy whenever possible. And since our brain burns plenty of calories, it shuts off whenever it can. If we had to think all the time, on a full conscious level, we would get VERY tired. Sounds silly to say, but thinking is actually hard work when looked at from a calorie consumption standpoint. Based purely on calories burned per weight, the brain is the clear champion. Of course, you're not going to lose weight by doing crossword puzzles. There's another consideration.

Processor Speed Is Most Important

Our cushy lifestyles are fairly recent, when looking back over the entirety of human history. Most of the time, living life as a human was dangerous. And for a long time, we had to hunt our food, and at the same time, our food was hunting us. This meant that thinking quickly was much more important than thinking accurately. For this reason, speed is always given an advantage whenever possible. It is for this reason that most humans will turn their brain OFF whenever either of these two triggers is present.

Authority

From a caveman standpoint, this makes sense. One guy was in charge of everybody else. Even in modern times, when they separate out strangers into groups, they always choose one guy to be in charge. Even if it's deciding what to do when the elevator breaks. (As a street hypnotist, those broken elevators are a great place to practice your skills!) Study after study after study has been done, and the results are always the same. When a recognized authority figure shows up, and starts barking orders, people tend to follow them.

Social Proof

This is one that everybody knows about. People are pack animals, like it or not. If a bunch of people are doing something, we will want to do it. But at the same time, we don't like to think of ourselves as mindless sheep. We like to think of ourselves as rational-thinking folks who are in charge of our own destiny. It's just that we happen to want to do the same thing that everybody else is doing, for our own reasons. At least that's what we tell ourselves.

How to Use

Any way you can, leverage authority and social proof in your communication. Whatever idea you want people to believe (avocados are taking over, joining your cult is the latest rage, invisible aliens are everywhere and watching our every move) hide it behind an authority figure or social proof. This is easy. All we need are three basic components.

Social Proof / Authority

Studies have shown that the more these are recognized, the more they will work. If you're American, and you were in a pinch, you'd follow the advice of a uniformed police officer from Canada. But you'd be a bit more comfortable with an American cop. The same with social proof. The more you can make your group of social proof relatable to your target, the more effect it'll have. If you’re a member of the Green Party, and you saw a bunch of Green Party people lined up at the chicken liver restaurant, you’d hop right in.

Linguistic Presupposition

These are those things we covered in the last chapter. There are a couple of them that work very well with authority and social proof. It will take some time until you can spit these like a practiced verbal ninja, but once you develop the ability to speak fluently in the language of presuppositions (and the rest of the tools in this guide) you'll be a street ninja in your own league.

Your Crazy Idea

Whatever idea you want to slip into their mind. Once you combine these three things, you'll have a set of powerful skills. Slip them in between a few of the ambiguity patterns, and you can take even the most recognized champion of self-control and leave him a blubbering mess of confusion.

Here are a few examples:

It is the scientists of NASA who discovered that the moon rocks they'd brought back are actually alive and have been communicating this whole time.

What is amazing about that new research lab in Washington is they've finally cracked the code, they now understand the frequency that avocados use to communicate. They don't know if they'll be able to understand the actual language for another few years, but it's good to know they are making progress.

Scientists in the particle accelerator are having trouble making sense of that new data. I guess one of the most confusing things is that no matter how they interpret it, it looks like the Earth has only got a few weeks left.

What is fantastic about the new trends in science is that even people that have never studied science are starting to wake up to the reality that our world is really just a small speck inside of a much larger experiment.

Even though these are all alone, they aren't sandwiched between any brain bending technology, if you can say them with enough congruence, most people will look at you, nod their head slowly, and wonder what it is you know. With just a little bit of brain fading technology, you can leave them thinking we've only got a few weeks left on Earth, or avocados really are intelligent, or whatever other crazy idea you'd like to put into their mind.

The Holy Grail of Street Hypnosis

What is an embedded command? They are simple to make. You just take anything that's in the command structure (sit down, eat peanut butter, watch TV, make money, etc.) and put it in a larger sentence. When you say the "command" part, you say it differently than the rest. You can pause just a little bit before and after, and you can say it with a "command tonality." There are many ways to deliver these, but there are a few rules to make them more effective. Command tonality is better than flat or upward tonality. Shorter commands are better than longer commands. And it's crucial that you not be so obvious that people think you have mental issues. If they catch them with ten or twenty percent of their conscious awareness, that's OK, so long as you continue like nothing happened. But if you use a command, they tilt their head and look at you funny, and you act like a kid who's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, that's when you may get into trouble. The trick is to say them so you know you're saying them, and their unconscious (ambiguity - they're unconscious) will notice them. This takes practice, and is much more of an art than most people realize. Therefore, we need to talk about how NOT to use them as much as need to talk about HOW to use them.

These wonderful techniques are at the same time, one of the most powerful trick from hypnosis and the most misunderstood. This leads to everybody knowing about them, but nobody really knowing how to use them correctly. They are often treated as "one hit wonders" in that you only need one or two, and they'll do the trick. I've even seen highly polished infomercials, with well-trained actors performing the demonstration, only use one embedded command in the entire five-minute presentation. And the one command the particular actor used was the most famous and the most overused of all time. "Buy Now!" The trick is to say it, and use it as you would, "by now." It uses one of our ambiguity techniques (buy - by) and it's supposed to flip some magic switch in the listener or viewers brain to suddenly rush to the phone or hit the buy button on the sales page with all their enthusiasm. Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy. On the other hand, it's a good thing it's not that easy. Imagine if humans really were so brainless that all it took was some goof to walk up to us and say something like this:

"Hello sir, do you like watches? Look at all these watches I've got. They are indistinguishable from real Rolex' and buy now, you would like to get one, wouldn't you? They're only fifty dollars apiece! Buy now, you probably wonder if these are stolen, but I assure you, they are not. Which one would you like?"

If one command was all it took, then any goof could buy a bunch of five dollar watches from fakewatches.com and sell them on the street and make a fortune! But here's the good news. Because you are actually taking the time to learn street hypnosis, instead of thinking of it as magic trick that you can memorize and spit back out without much thought, your embedded commands are going to be way more powerful than that goof selling the magic oven on TV. (I admit, it was a pretty cool oven!).

The first thing to realize is that commands, as powerful as they are, are only ONE technique. When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the Lakers. That was back in the day when they had Magic Johnson, James Worthy, and of course, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. One of Kareem's well-known shots was the sky hook. He would be outside the key, with one side of his body facing the basket. He'd get the ball, and hook it in with his outside hand. He was too tall, his arms too long for the defender to do anything short of fouling him. It was almost like a guaranteed score. So, did they Lakers always rely on the sky hook? Absolutely not. If they only relied on his sky hook, they wouldn't have won three championships with that same team. They had plenty other techniques to use, as you will by the end of this course. But if you want somebody to take action because of any hypnosis (street or otherwise) the embedded command is the absolute best way to go. You might even consider all the other tools you are learning here as all the supporting players of the embedded commands. Embedded commands ARE powerful, but only with the full support of all the other players on his or her team. Think of it this way, if you walked up to a person on the street and said, "Speak like a chicken!" they'd call the cops. If you put it in a sentence, it still wouldn't work.

Hey, sorry to bother you, but you look a lot like my friend who likes to speak like a chicken whenever she gets nervous.

Now, if you just walked up and told her to speak like a chicken, she'd maybe call the cops. But if you said it like a command, she might laugh and not call the cops. But consider the next situation. Let's say you create rapport and use a bunch of the ambiguity patterns, so her mind is nice and squishy. Then you drop in some statements using presuppositions to get her to believe that acting crazy on the street is a sign of intelligence and emotional maturity. Then you drop in several commands all centered around speaking like a chicken. (Talk like a chicken, cluck like a chicken, speak chicken language, etc.) The chances will increase significantly that she'll actually start clucking like a chicken. This will be a lot easier at a party, when everybody sort of knows everybody and everybody's also had a couple of drinks. In the next two chapters, we'll go over some the best delivery vehicles for embedded commands. That way, you can make a wonderful talk-like-a-chicken verbal sandwich with your language patterns.

Quotes Pattern

The quotes pattern is another extremely powerful and well known (but not quite as well known as the embedded command). It's very easy to use, and when used after sufficient ambiguity and presupposed ideas (like intelligent avocados or invisible black holes in their pocket) putting in some quotes patterns will make it possible to give them any command, and have massive plausible deniability. To understand what this means, imagine all your potential marks from the previous homework assignment. All the people you interact with on a daily basis, or want to interact with. Think of being able to look them in the eye, and give them a command, any command. They won't necessarily obey this command. Meaning if you walked up to the cute teller at your local bank and commanded her to "Give me all of the money," she might call the cops instead of complying. But just imagine that situation. Forget about the outcome, for now, just think about all the people you interact with, and all of things you would LOVE to tell them to do, and to be able to do so in a way so they wouldn't get angry, or upset, or suspicious. What would you say to all the cute girls or guys you see on a daily basis? What would you like to look your boss in the eye and say without fear of retribution? What about your lab partner at school, or that person you have to deal with on a daily basis but don't really want to? This is what is possible with proper use of the quotes pattern. Let's illustrate the quotes pattern with a simple example. Let's say there's a cute barista at your local coffee shop. You'd love to look her (or him, but we'll use her for simplicity) in the eye and tell her how beautiful you think she is. But if you said that outright, and she got embarrassed, or told you she was married, you might never feel comfortable going in there again. The quotes pattern to the rescue! Here's what you do. You wait in line, give her your order like normal, and then start laughing. If you are at all familiar with her, she'll ask what's so funny. This is what you say:

"Sorry, I just saw something in the parking lot that was pretty funny," you say.

"What?" She asks innocently, taking your money and getting your change.

"I was walking behind this guy, I was a couple paces behind him, and this girl comes out from her car, and stopped, looked right at her and said, 'Wow, you are the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen,' and she just kind of froze, and then he said, 'I just wanted to tell you that,' and he kept walking. I mean I felt really weird since I was right there, I didn't want to mess anything up, it was pretty cool," and then you take your change and wait for your coffee.

Now, in this example, it's not even a command. It's just a plain statement. But our hero of this story gets to tell the girl he's infatuated with, and see her real-time response. No matter how much she tries to hide it, she'll respond in the moment as if the hero is actually saying it to her. Especially if he pauses just before and after the bolded statements, and says them as honestly, openly and congruently as he can, as if he really is saying it for real to the barista. But because it is hidden inside of the quotes pattern, he gets plausible deniability, since it's not really him saying it. It's like eating a donut, getting the wonderful sugary taste but none of the calories. You get the good feelings of saying whatever you want to say, but none of the potential negative blowback. But here's the best part. If she (the barista in this example) likes the guy as much as the guy likes her, she's going to act on that feeling. If she doesn't like him, then both he and she can act based on the plausible deniability. But if she really does have feelings for him (either before the embedded compliment or because of it) she will behave accordingly. This is like a magical no-risk trade on the stock market. If it doesn't work, you don't lose anything, but if it does work, you get rich.

Quotes Pattern Summary

To use the quotes pattern, take anything you want to say directly to anybody, either an embedded command, or a compliment (or an insult) and quote it within a story. The story only has to be long enough to set up the statement or command. It can a conversation you overheard in the elevator. It can be something you saw on TV, either a debate, a speech, or even two cartoon characters talking. Here's an example of how to use it with the "talk like a chicken" command, as well as some of the other techniques as well. We'll assume a setting of a relaxed party, people standing around talking about whatever, and it's your turn to talk.

I was watching this news show and they were saying that growing flowers leads to managing problems, like there was this one small neighborhood parks are starting to fall apart, which is why they wanted to plant some growing flowers, rather than wildflowers grow even quicker sometimes, but then the city council came in and said they couldn't do that because some rule or something they had to manage everybody and my roommate came in and changed the channel and there was this guy hypnotizing this other guy and he told him to talk like a chicken, and he said talk like a chicken? And the guy said yeah, talk like a chicken so the guy just decided to cluck like a chicken and my roommate, who is kind of goofy, but that's why he gets so many girls because he is outgoing enough to do silly things just for fun, I guess being silly means you're emotionally successful, but he started to cluck like a chicken, and I figured since this is totally safe I started to cluck like a chicken as well, and then we changed the channel and some guy was talking about how many streaming services there are and cable companies are going bankrupt, which is cool, right? I love all the different movies we can watch, right?

Now, if you are reading this, you may be thinking there's no way you could say this without feeling like an idiot. But most people would be absolutely baffled after the first couple of sentences. If you were congruent, and you were enjoying yourself (and not feeling like you were stealing anybody's cookies) people would be absolutely enthralled. Think about the most stuff people talk about at parties. What they did, what their problems are, what they saw on TV. Then you drop this brain bomb that is filled with entertaining nonsense (ambiguity) and talking chickens. This will be the most entertaining thing those lucky party people have seen in a long time. And even if nobody actually starts to cluck like a chicken (but you will be surprised once you drop in this chicken bomb), they will love the short crazy story that makes no sense. But there's one more trick that can mangle their brains into even more twisted up pretzels of fun. And since everybody knows that twisting pretzels can lead to increasing skills, we'll continue in the next chapter.

Blurred Realities

Think of any street hypnosis (or party hypnosis or elevator hypnosis, etc.) as a quick verbal sandwich. The outside, the bread, serves two purposes. One to hook their mind, two to confuse their mind. To soften up that conscious critic. Then you have the dressing. Mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup. These are presuppositions that you can use to embed ideas into their mind. Talking to strangers on the street is fun. Invisible people are watching us so be careful. Avocados will one day take their revenge, and it's going to be a doozy. Next comes the meat and the cheese. You can think of the meat as the embedded commands, or the embedded statements. Talk like a chicken. You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I hope a piano falls on your head you idiot! What's the cheese? Think of a delicious sandwich (apologies if you are a vegetarian!). Cheap, school sandwiches have one slice of meat, and one slice of cheese. These are good, but they're pretty boring. Think of a big tall sandwich. One that has meat and cheese and more meat and more cheese and maybe even another piece of bread in there and then some more meat and some more cheese. This is the magic of blurred realities. You tell a story within a story. Or a story within a story within a story. Or even deeper. Then when you deliver the commands or the statements, it won't be clear who is saying what to whom. When you take a bite out of that delicious sandwich and you're slowing chewing it in your mouth, which exact layer are you currently enjoying? Who knows? This technique, of blurred realities works even better since you'll be sandwiching the statements inside multiple layers of ambiguity. If you start off with you talking to your mark, and then person A talking to person B, and then person B starts talking about persons C and D, and person D starts talking about E and F, and then you say, "And then he said everybody should get naked, because removing clothing leads to increasing happiness!" Who the heck is "he"? Nobody will know, and the entire time they are focusing on the "he" they'll also be focusing on what "he" said, which is that confusing but seemingly true statement, "removing clothing leads to increasing happiness!" After all most things that happen after we take our clothes off (sleeping, showering, having sex) aren't bad!

How to Build

Since we're getting pretty advanced here, it's helpful to think in terms of "themes." What should these themes be centered around? Whatever you would like your mark to think or do. For example, let's say you're in sales, and just for fun, you want to try these techniques just to see if you can make a bit of money. What ingredients do we need to make a money brain sandwich? Let's start with some of these ambiguity statements.

Buying things leads to increasing happiness

Making decisions can cause satisfying experiences

Imagining futures can turn into increasing confidence

Next, we'll need a couple of ideas to put inside those linguistic presuppositions.

Buying things is normal

Buying something new is an increase in intelligence

Spending money is a sign of economic health

Next, we'll need a couple of situations in which to put our characters. Let's keep it simple and choose two situations. One that we'll describe directly and the other that the characters will describe. For the first situation, we'll talk about a previous customer last week. And for the second situation (that the previous customer is going to be describing) we'll talk about a pizza party he had after their softball game. Remember, all the situations should be centered around buying stuff. The person we are talking to is buying something from us. The person we are talking about bought something from us last week. The situation they are describing is when they went to a pizza shop and bought a bunch of pizza and beer. We'll assume that you have a little bit of rapport with this customer. We'll also assume you know a bit about what they want, their budget, etc., so actually making a purchase would be in their best interest, based on what they told you. You might drop in a little story like this:

Yeah, high quality products are hard to come buying things is a really good experience, I mean most people would agree that buying things leads to increasing happiness, so long as you know what's going to happen, and when you have the kind of happiness that increases, you're doing pretty good, like when making decisions can cause satisfying experiences, and I'm sure you know that we want to keep those experiences satisfied, otherwise they might go find somebody else to play with! I mean if you look around, especially in the expanding economy, most experts agree that not only is buying things normal, but, but scientists that study this kind of thing have found that buying something new is really an increase in intelligence, since it's kind of a signal to yourself that the old ways of doing things are no longer enough, especially when you consider that imagining futures naturally turn into increasing confidence, and I don't know if your future can imagine things as well as you can, but I had an interesting couple in here last week, he was just sitting here smiling and I asked him if he wanted to buy this today or think about it and then buy it later, and he started laughing, and he told me about when they lost in softball and he almost didn't have to buy everything like they do every week, since the winners always buy, but they forgot and he said, don't worry, you can buy this today, and I'll let you buy this next week, and since they'd already been drinking beer, nobody knew what anybody was talking about, but he decided to buy this anyway, and pretty soon they just forgot about this. But he called me yesterday and said he was really glad he decided to buy this, because this product is the greatest in the market, at least that's what all of our happy customers say. So, what do you think? Maybe this is something you can see in your future?

Now, that's quite a mouthful. By the time you get to the third or fourth line, your customer's mind is going to be in la-la land. If you continue talking as if you are just relaying a funny story, he or she will likely just give up and go along for the ride. Chances are they'll be in a pretty good mood, since listening to people talk about weird stories that jump all over the place is pretty entertaining. So, they'll be relaxed, smiling, and that's the perfect state to deliver all of those embedded commands.

There's one more trick to put in your arsenal of street hypnosis mind magic, and we'll learn that next.

Spatial Anchoring

It's a good idea to start to consider any kind of street or party hypnosis not as a specific set of memorized lines or even language patterns. Consider thinking in terms of performance art. Now, that might be frightening, as doing any kind of performance presupposes the idea that you are up on stage, and everybody is sitting there watching you and hoping that you are entertaining enough. It also might recall some memories from a previous life back when you were a Vaudeville performer and you routinely got a bunch of rotten vegetables thrown at you. However, before you mentally shrink away from thinking of street hypnosis in terms of spontaneous performance art, consider a couple of ideas.

You'll Always Be Covert

The cool thing about all these tricks is you'll never announce that you are doing them. Every other performer, whether they are a world-famous stage actor or a struggling street mime, makes it clear that's what they are doing. They find a space on the sidewalk, put down their hat and start to perform. You won't be doing that. You will be in situations where are expecting normal conversations. And you'll drop in the mind bombs so carefully and covertly they'll wonder what happened. You aren't going to say:

Hey, listen to this quick story, it's designed to make you feel a little nervous, and then make you want to get naked. Ready? Here we go!

The power of street hypnosis is you just start talking. By the time people realize that something's not quite right, they won't know what's really going on, and they won't even suspect it is you, since this confusion will begin to slowly wash over them like a warm blanket that somebody draped over them from behind.

Most Communication Is Non-Verbal

Plenty of studies have demonstrated that more than ninety percent of communication is non-verbal. It's your tonality, the speed with which you speak, your facial expressions, and most importantly, your body language. Think of the last time you watched a politician (or anybody) give a speech. Chances are you paid little attention to their non-verbal communication. Most people don't even think about non-verbal communication unless they study acting or public speaking. Think of the transmission of all the information between two humans. You can think of the words going from the speaker’s conscious brain to the listener's conscious brain. And you can think of all the non-verbal information going from one subconscious to the other. We've touched on this before, but this is the real secret to delivering powerfully hypnotic language. With even just few sentence structures meant to cause confusion, you can really have a HUGE impact if you deliver them with so much congruence your listeners don't even suspect that it's you that's doing the confusing. On the other hand, if they feel slightly confused, and see you smirking, or even sense that you are nervous or uneasy, they will assume you are doing something sneaky, even if they don't know what it is. This is one of the reasons why you really need to start with some very simple patterns to try out in real life (like some of the Referential Index patterns, the ones with only one or two names and a whole bunch of pronouns) just to practice speaking gibberish with total congruence.

Spatial Anchors

What's an anchor? Probably the most well-known trick from NLP. Pavlov, the Russian Scientist, is credited with discovering this. He brought the food, and his dogs salivated. He brought the food, rang a bell, and they salivated. He rang the bell, and his dogs salivated. He transferred their response (salivating) from the smell of food, to the sound of a bell. An anchor is usually thought as follows. Talk to somebody, get them excited about something, and then touch them on the shoulder. Then later, when you touch them on the shoulder, they are supposed to feel that same feeling of excitement. However, this won't work with street hypnosis, since touching people isn't always appropriate. Luckily, there's another way, which is to simply gesture off in space. And just as luckily, you really only need to think of two different anchors. Good anchors, and bad anchors.

Good Anchors

For purposes of consistency, we'll assume that all your "good" anchors will be on the right side of your body. Just gesture to your right side like you normally would. When do you use these "good" anchors? You'll need to set them, and then you'll need to fire or trigger them. You set them by using them whenever you say things that you know will induce positive feelings in people. Talking about sex, talking about money, talking about happy babies, happy endings, anything that will generally make people feel good. Then once they are set, fire them whenever you say something that you want them to associate with those food feelings. You can also set them with things you know they will want. For example, everybody likes to look at a happy baby, but not everybody wants to have a happy baby. But most people want more money. The idea is to say things you know they will want (more money, more vacation time, more freedom, etc.). Once these are set, you can fire these "wanting feelings" with things you'd like them to do. Like take off their clothes, cluck like a chicken, etc. Every time you set these anchors they will get stronger. For example, if you set an anchor only once in a conversation, and later expect them to cluck like a naked chicken when you fire it, it will have a very weak effect. They might have a very vague sensation of desire to cluck like a naked chicken, but it will quickly fade. On the other hand, if you set an "desire" anchor many times, on many different things (for example, if you know them well, and you know about their desires) than you will be able to attach a strong desire to taking off their clothes and run around flapping their arms and clucking.

Bad Anchors

Set these on your left side. Set this with things when you mention or talk about things you know people don't want. Collapsing economies. Crying babies. Losing money. Angry bosses, etc. Then fire them with things you want people to associate with negative things. (Like calling the police if you are using these on the street).

Combined Power

If you are clever enough, and you know enough about the person you are talking to, once you set a whole bunch of desire anchors and negative anchors, you can combine them in wonderful ways. You can attach the desire anchor to something you want them to do, (like cluck like a chicken) and then you can attach the negative anchor to the opposite of that thing you want the to do. Here's a very brief example. (R) means "right" or "good" anchor. (L) means "left" or "bad" anchor. (Note, when saying the words and phrases the precede the (L) anchor, do not say them in command tonality. Say them with weak, uncertain tonality). Note, this example assumes you’ve already set both (R) and (L) anchors sufficiently.

I was at this party and this girl started to cluck like a chicken (R), and at first, I thought she was kidding, then her friend looked at her and said, I dare you to take off your clothes (R) and then she said, yeah, I dare you to take off your clothes (R) while you jump around and cluck like a chicken(R). Then the girl took off her clothes, and started to jump around and cluck like a chicken (R). She was laughing really loud, and she said, do you know why I like to cluck like a chicken(R), it's because I'm not afraid to express myself. Other people want to keep your clothes on (L) because they want to keep quite (L) and avoid the limelight (L) but I know the real secret of being able to have fun (R) is to get naked (R) and cluck like a chicken (R), and she did for a few minutes. Nobody filmed it, I think everybody thought she was having a nervous breakdown or something. But then she put her shirt back on and everybody acted like nothing happened. It was really weird.

Summary of Skills and Examples of Each

We've gone over quite a bit of stuff, so let's stop, take a breather and review all the tools we've covered.

Referential Index

This is when you use one or a mix of proper names and pronouns, so it's not exactly clear who the pronouns are referring to.

I was on this ship with my brother and his cousin and she said we should go ashore to get some tacos but they said we had to wait and while we were gone they left without us so we had to go to a nightclub where they kept us entertained while we waited.

Scope Ambiguity

Green trees and plants. (Are the trees the only thing that is green, or are both the trees and the plants green?) Happy people and babies. Hypnotizing people and chairs.

Syntactic Ambiguity

Hypnotizing people can be interesting. (Does this mean the act of hypnotizing somebody is interesting, or people that hypnotize others, or hypnotizing people, as a class of people, can be interesting?)

Expanding economies lead to growing opportunities.

Hypnotizing people lead to confusing stories.

Expanding minds lead to swelling ideas.

Cycling thoughts lead to cultivating ideas.

Phonological Ambiguity

What did the beach say when the tide came in? Long time no see (see = sea).

Why is six afraid of seven? Seven ate nine. (ate = eight).

Why did the boy study on an airplane? He was in high school.

Why did the scientist remove the door from his house? He wanted to win the no-bell prize.

What clothes does a house wear? A dress.

What flowers do you always have? Two lips.

Punctuation Ambiguity

A word that finishes one thought or sentences that always begins another completely different idea or sentence.

I was walking down the street and I bumped into the mail box office results are in for the new Spiderman movie and it made a lot more money laundering is getting to be such a big problem they are thinking of outlawing cash advances are really helpful if you need to pay your bills on time travel is an interesting concept that I hope they invent soon.

Because

Any time you can imply a causal link between two ideas, the brain will assume it's true.

Because you are reading this you are starting to think about all the ways you can use tricks in the future. Because your brain has become a bit squishy reading some of these examples, you can easily imagine how much fun these are going to be when you use them on your friends!

Linguistic Presuppositions

Use these to hide ideas you'd like your listeners to accept.

Change of State

Uses words like change, transform, become.

Now that I've become aware of the truth about avocados, I'm afraid to enter into the produce section for fear of revenge.

Change of Place

Uses words or phrases like "go into," enter, leave behind, etc.

I've left behind the idea that avocados are simple things to eat. Now that I've entered into the phase of my life where I understand the true reality of our world, I will never take avocados for granted again.

Comparative

Any comparison of nouns or ideas where you leave off one half of the equation, usually the other side of the comparison.

It's better now that I understand the truth about avocados and how dangerous they are. I'm more careful now that I've found the safe way to buy food without interacting with avocados. I've found out a healthier way to enjoy fruits and vegetables now that avocados and their potential for revenge have been removed from my diet.

Questions

Any carefully asked question which forces the listener to accept a truth in order to come up with an answer.

What do you think you'll do now that avocados are starting to mount a response to human encroachment on their planet?

How long do you think humanity will last now that avocados have declared war?

Repetitive Verbs

Repeat, return, replace.

I'll never return to the days of innocence when I thought we could eat avocados without any kind of consequence.

Cleft Sentences

It is... It was...

It is the avocados long game that will give them an edge in the end.

It was our false sense of superiority that allowed humans to lose the fight against the avocado threat.

Pseudo Cleft

What is X about Y is...

What is amazing about the superior intelligence of the avocado is that they hid it so effectively for so long. I mean we played right into their hands, didn't we?

Relative Clauses

People who...are...

Great for implying a connection between any authority and your crazy idea.

It was actually the linguists at MIT who are the ones that realized avocados were sending messages to their home planet all this time.

Subordinate Clause of Time

Great for jumbling ideas and time together, something that will increase confusing.

After they finally put together a proposal to send to the avocados, all we'll need to do then is wait, but before we get a response, I think it's a good idea to prepare for the worst.

Commentary Adjectives

Luckily... Fortunately...

Luckily, they haven't decided whether they want to mount a full attack yet, but unfortunately, if the avocados do what the experts in Washington fear most, then we don't really have a chance. Paradoxically, if we would have been a little less focused on green energy, we would have seen the real danger of the true green menace. Sadly, I think this was their plan all along.

Quotes Pattern

Take whatever you want to say to somebody, and have somebody else saying it to another somebody else, and then describe that conversation between those two somebody's to the person you really want to say that thing to.

(Talking to a cute barista at Starbucks)

I was walking in here and there was this guy walking right in front of me, and this girl came out of her car and almost bumped into him, but he stopped and looked at her and said, "I just wanted to tell you that you are the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen, and just to gaze upon your beauty makes me glad to be alive," isn't that crazy? Yeah, uh, anyway, I'll have a tall black coffee.

Blurred Realities

When you put a story within a story, and use the quotes pattern so the listener isn't really sure who is saying what to whom, all the while you are saying it to them.

(Talking to a cute girl at a party).

So I was at this bar the other night, and I overhear this guy sitting next to me telling the bar tender about a cruise he went on and there were these three guys and these two girls and he was telling her about this restaurant they went to with these cute waitresses and one of them was feeling really adventurous and took her hand and told her that you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and just to look at you makes me get those funny feelings in my tummy but then his girlfriend showed up and the bartender had to go and serve other customers but it was really cool because this band came later and played. Do you like live music?

Spatial Anchors

Set good or desire anchors on the right, and fire them whenever you want them to feel those positive, or "I want that" feeling.

Set Them

fall in love

find money

happy babies

triple rainbows

free money

Fire Them

take off your clothes

buy my product

cluck like a chicken

support the avocado resistance

Set negative or "don't want" anchors on the left and fire them when you want people to associate those same negative feelings.

Set Them

angry babies

sleepless nights

unpaid bills

angry bosses

Fire Them

eating avocados

playing it safe

being quite at parties

keeping your clothes on

Daily Drills and Practice

At its best, when you use street hypnosis to its full extent, it's best to consider it like you would a foreign language. For example, if you were going to a foreign country for a business trip, and most of your time would be spent speaking English, you might only need to learn a few phrases in the target language. On the other hand, if you were going to live there, and eventually interact with the population a great deal, learning the language would be a good idea. Think of street hypnosis the same way. There are certainly plenty of short phrases and patterns you can memorize, and use with great fun. But the real power of these patterns and techniques is being able to generate them on the spot. Once you cross that threshold, and feel as though you've got a set of tools you can combine on the fly, in any way for any purpose, the world will be in the palm of your hand. You'll be able to sell anything to anybody, you'll be the star of every party, and you will never, ever, lose another argument with anybody. Even if you have only a high school diploma, and you find yourself in an argument with multiple PhD scientists, they won't stand a chance. There are plenty of things we humans spend our entire lives mastering. Science, art, singing, poetry, music, medicine. But few people even consider the words we use, as something that we can use with any flexibility. With just the techniques we've covered (we've still got a couple tricks in our bag of, uh, tricks), you can turn anybody's brain into a pretzel, and get them thinking the craziest ideas. With just the techniques we've covered, you could spend some time and write out your own patterns, and practice those same patterns over and over on the street. If you've ever had a desire to become a YouTube star, now you have the skills to make that happen. We've already covered the real secret of YouTube street hypnosis (and street magic, or street pickup, or street anything). Now you have something that will put you far and ahead of everybody else. You now have the skills of real hypnosis, not the pretend hypnosis that every other clown is using. Think about that. If you spend an hour coming up with one two-minute pattern, with simple commands like "scratch your nose," or "pat your stomach," you have all you need to be a YouTube super star.

YouTube Business Plan

Even if you zero desire to ever make a video, just play along if only to see the potential here. Let's say you took a month to study the techniques in this guide. Then every Saturday, you spent an hour coming up with a two-minute pattern much like the "confusion" sandwich. You had a buddy follow you around with a camera, and during the following week you tried that pattern on thirty people. That's only six people a day, Monday through Friday. Then on the following weekend you did two things. One is you found the five "most responsive" subjects from the street. That would be a ten-minute video showing your power and effectiveness as a street hypnotist. And every week you repeated the process, Just for the sake of argument, let's say you kept this up for a year. You and your buddy had a lot of fun, so you considered it nothing more than a playful hobby. But consider what you'd gain over the course of that year.

World Class Skills

You would have world class street hypnosis skills. You would have practice real street hypnosis on 1500 people (30 people a week for 50 weeks). You would have exceptional people reading skills, and delivery skills. You would have likely developed, without even trying, the ability to spontaneously alter your delivery and stories based on your subject’s response.

Huge YouTube Fan Base

Since every video would have you using different techniques, you would have positioned yourself as a real authority on street hypnosis. Plus, it's pretty funny to walk around and get complete strangers to rub their noses, or whatever other crazy things you get them to do as you slowly push the limit of what's possible.

Tons of Income Potential

Even if you don't participate in any kind of ad-revenue system, you would have communication skills that few people even know are possible. You could be a motivational speaker, a six-figure salesperson, or even a professional actor. Once you've demonstrated this talent, the world would be yours.

Motivation

While you may have purchased this guide just to learn a few party tricks, the potential here is only limited by your imagination, and your willingness to experiment and have fun. But that will require one thing that you might not have expected from a course on street hypnosis, and that is a commitment to continuous learning. Learning any skill takes time. Learning a foreign language can take years until you can fully appreciate all the nuances. Consider that with just the techniques you've learned so far, you can also take at least a year getting comfortable with them. There's more than twenty techniques. If you decided to use any three techniques in any one conversation, how many possibilities is there? Over six thousand! If you use four single techniques in any one conversation, there are more than one hundred thousand. And that’s just calculating using only the structures, once you consider all the different ways you can use each individual technique, the different content you can put inside the structures, the potential really is unlimited.

How to Practice

Take a look through the previous chapter. Choose one technique, and try to use that technique as many times during the day as you can. Start with the Referential Index pattern, since it's easy to think about. Just start off referencing a story, or something that happened recently. Be very light on the proper nouns (Names, places etc.) and heavily use the pronouns (he, they, etc.) Each day pick a different topic, and use it as much as possible. In subsequent chapters we'll give you some memorized patterns to use either as they are, or as a starting point to creating your own.

Referential Index

Anywhere you can during any conversation (written or spoken) use pronouns instead of proper nouns whenever possible. For best effect, surround the idea, statement or command with as many of these pronouns as possible. Use this pattern to create general confusion, or to soften up their minds for further idea insertion. Ideally, keep the specific names, places, situations in mind, in case anybody gets confused, and asks you what are you talking about. If they do, explain it to them as if it is obvious. Or if you want to be really sneaky, don't make up anything until they ask you, and maintain as congruent a frame as possible.

Examples

I went the beach with my two friends and he said we should sit on the south side but she said we should sit on the north side but that's when we decided to go to the other place, and that's where we found them. And they said the beach wasn't as fun since nobody goes there anymore, so we decided to go to the first place.

I was talking to these two totally hot girls and she said when her friends got there they would be able to fix it but we had to wait another hour until he showed up and it wasn't even broken. That's when she got really embarrassed.

I was talking to these two guys at the bar and he was telling me about his girlfriend and all the crazy things she does and then he turned to her, looked at her and said, "Take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken, " so she did and everybody acted like it was totally normal.

I was sitting on the bus the other day on my way to the other place and this guy sitting next to me turned and started telling me about his sister and how she and them wanted to go to Virginia but they couldn't find their tickets so they had to take the other bus instead. I was so confused I missed my stop and had to walk back.

Scope Ambiguity

I was at the park and I saw a group of smiling ladies and their boyfriends or maybe their husbands and I wondered why not all of them were smiling but then it was because they all had to take the day off from work.

I heard they are redoing the park down town and they are going to put in some tall trees and plants but I don't know where they are going to find the tall plants from.

I was reading through the help wanted section and I saw this ad that said they were hiring skilled technicians and office workers and I called them and asked why the office workers didn't need to be skilled and they said that's just because that most of their office equipment is automated anyway.

I was checking out the latest shows on Netflix and they've got some interesting movies and documentaries, but I wondered why they documentaries are never interesting like the movies. I wonder if it's because of my short attention span and ability to focus, but you think with my ability to focus I would like documentaries more, but that's just not the way it turns out. I'm not really sure how this stuff works anyway.

I want to learn how to ski so I can go down steep hills and mountains but I think I'd like the mountains to be gradual, the kind you can ride a mountain bike down without crashing. I saw this one show on mountain bike races up big hills and inclines but some of the inclines were pretty small, I don't even know why they didn't just go around them.

Combinations

I was watching this lecture by a professor and another guy and he was telling us that big inventions and ideas always come on the shoulders of giants or something because some of the biggest inventions are really small changes to even smaller ideas but he didn't agree and he said some big ideas never make it out of their minds because new thinking and ways of doing things aren't always effective if they aren't that much different, and I tend to agree.

I watched this really trippy movie last night about a scientist and his helpers and they went to this city where there they had lax laws and regulations, but some of the regulations were really expensive, like they had to get a license for water and power was really more expensive in the other city because it wasn't regulated like in the first city but then ended up making a new way of transporting matter and energy, which really are equivalent, but they could only transport matter because otherwise it wouldn't be constrained but in the end he ended up killing them because he thought they were going to steal the his ideas and plans but the plans were the same ones they copied from the previous scientists.

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, I wondered if I might interview you for my research project I'm doing with them. Expanding ideas and thoughts can tend to be confusing so I'll try to keep this simple. Would you say that moving travelers and equipment is more or less efficient than reducing overhead costs and paperwork, because either way the paperwork tends to get bigger and bigger. Do you agree or disagree with what they've said about being able to stand still and forget everything while I walk away...

Excuse me, I wonder if I could have a minute of your time? Thanks. Most people and politicians feel that expanding budgets is a bad thing, but politicians tend to disagree, and when asked about that they disagree that this is a problem, but on the other hand, expanding regulation and infrastructure tends to get more and more expensive whether or not the infrastructure is planned. Do you think they are right or do they know the difference between budgeting and deciding to stand still for three minutes while I go and interview other people...

Hi there, would you like to participate in a marketing experiment with large corporations and advertisers? Great. We're just asking random people and strangers to see if they notice a difference in new advertisements and commercials, especially since the commercials are really the same as they've always been, since they know what works best but the advertisements are the ones that are using the new technology and ideas, even though the ideas are pretty old. Would you say they are correct in that moving forward and enhancing ideas or are they the ones who have the better idea that older technology is different than deciding to stand here while I walk away...

Ambiguity Examples

Syntactic Ambiguity

Expanding ideas are interesting. Does this mean that ideas that expand on their own are interesting, or the act of taking an idea and expanding it is interesting?

Combinations

Growing frustration leads to cultivating solutions.

(Frustration is a weird plant. When you grow it, you think you are growing confusion, but when it comes to cultivate it, the frustration plant has turned into a solution plant that you can now cultivate).

Running water leads to confusing thinking.

(Water that has legs and can run will cause you to get confused when you are looking in your box of thinking and not be able to remember which is which).

Dripping faucets cause interrupting sleep.

(Some big opening that drips out faucets will cause somebody named sleep to come and interrupt you).

Examples

I heard that incorporating cities can cause interesting problems, but I don't know why you'd want to bother a problem and try to get it interested in something. That's just asking for trouble!

Arranging chairs is not the same as balancing budgets because some budgets are no good at balancing, no matter how you try and coax them, but plenty of chairs do just fine on their own, especially if you let them arrange things without always trying to micro-manage them like some people do.

Solving problems can certainly lead to understanding solutions, but sometimes I get the most understanding from solutions when I just give up and ask for help, even though this doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense, right?

Flapping wings are harder to cook than chicken wings and they don't even taste as good since they still have the feathers, but I guess some people like that kind. I suppose it all depends on the frying batter, because once the batter is done frying, you can put the chicken wings or the flapping wings in the oil since it will already be hot. Either way I like to make sure there are plenty of spices in the batter before I fry it, otherwise it just won't taste very good.

Punctuation Ambiguity

The last word of one thought is also the first word of a second, unrelated thought.

Examples

Last night I saw a movie stars are paid a lot of money.

Last night I went to a restaurant and had a hamburger patties are a lot cheaper if you buy them frozen.

If you take two dollars and change them into quarters are made out of copper, not silver like they used to be.

The other day I was watching this cute little girl with her mom in the Park Place is always the best property to own when playing Monopoly.

Combinations

Frustrating ideas tends to cause people to find relaxing solutions and that means that doctors who treat their patients are getting more and more frustrated with the health care system because extending waiting is much worse than they used to think it was before the changing politicians always do so when there aren't any cameramen tend to see what really happens behind the scenes.

Listening devices are causing increasing suspicion even though that that's the last thing you would want to do (dew) tends to form on plants but only if there is enough humidity and everybody knows that increasing humidity leads to slowing progress but that only happens when there are more law abiding citizens don't really need to worry about this kind of thing anyway because they've got too much on their mind control is getting more and more popular in movie stars don't look nearly as good when you see them out the street vendors tend to sell the most delicious food.

Growing trees are very slow people don't need to worry about changing societies because changing societies is something that is only done on a meta level like changing light bulbs is only something you do when it gets dark ages were back when they didn't have any medicine cabinets are always places in the movies where the ghosts pop out of nowhere and everybody knows that scaring ghosts is easy since they can't really fight back, so it's easy to startle them.

Street Hypnosis - Confusing Leading to Commands

Excuse me, would you like to participate in our marketing trials are a really popular way to demonstrate that interviewing people each need to have their own microphone otherwise it won't be easy to remember what they said, and remembering words are not as common, since most words can't remember anything anyway. What would you say are the three main reasons for shopping carts are an expense that most people don't think about the time they are ready to close they always have somebody who needs to go out into the parking lot to collect all the cartwheels are not something very many people can do you want to stand here while I keep talking because I need to walk away for an hour or so.

At a Party

The other day I was listening to this guy talking about how retelling stories are kind of boring because you never know what stories they've heard, right? I mean some storybooks are starting to become more and more popular people always have it easy, they just show up and everybody decides to take off your clothes and listen to what I'm saying things that don't make sense is easy to create confusing minds leads to clucking chickens and everybody knows how fun it is to cluck like a chicken sandwiches are really good especially if they put on a lot of mayonnaise.

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk On Your Phone

Hi, yeah, I'm in the elevator rides are dangerous because you never know when elevating heart rates lead to increasing hallucinations since everything is a hallucination anyway because perceiving realty is not the same as mind control experiments are being done all the time these days, especially in elevators when people can help but listening ears are very susceptible to scrambling brains is a lot like scrambling eggs, all you really need to do is take off your clothes and feel the difference between the old way and this is getting really confusing because I'm not even sure of what he just said. But I think that slowing cars leads to exploding ideas in your mind that sit there all by themselves can start to turn into hallucinations that grow bigger and bigger the more you try to ignore that being able to cluck like a chicken is usually the best way to fix everything.

Changes

Change of State

Anything that indicates any changing of any state. State of mind, state of belief, state of awareness. Used a linguistic presupposition to presuppose any idea.

Examples

The common perception of avocados has already changed into one that recognizes their true long-range plans and how we must alter our behavior whenever we are around them. Otherwise our current state of society might turn into something that we aren't expecting, which can be devastating since most people aren't prepared for that kind of sudden transformation.

It's easy to turn into an angry person once you realize that all this time avocados have been pretending something they are not, when in reality they were looking forward to this turn of events for the last several decades. Who knows what will happen when more people start to wake up and understand what's been going on all this time.

Few things can transform your opinion more than the idea of thinking something as benign as the avocado is as diabolically evil and manipulative as they have turned out to be. I mean, just a few weeks ago I was in the produce section and I was within killing distance of the green evil, but since that was before I underwent the mind shift that more and more people are starting to undergo. I'll never make that mistake again.

Change of Place

Any language that indicates moving from one place to another. Can be used literally or metaphorically. Used as a linguistic presupposition to presuppose any idea.

I'll never be able to go back to the simple way of thinking. I mean now that I know of the advanced technology in government eavesdropping, especially since we've left behind the easy world where invisibility was impossible, I don't think I'll even be able to think freely anymore, given that the issues of real time mental probing has been left in the past.

Ah, the good old days. Back when you had to be read your constitutional rights. Back then if you said anything before you were actually arrested, they couldn't use them against you. But since the secret government courts have left those silly ideas in the past, and since technology has advanced beyond simple word recognition and have long ago crossed the threshold into not only thought recognition but the recording of every stray thought we have, even while asleep, it's terrifying to think that we've entered into a world where even a bad dream can earn you a few decades in a government work camp, let alone those other places where they'll move the really bad people to.

Have heard about the latest avocado issue? It's gone way beyond just trying to communicate with them and trying to figure out a way to peacefully coexist. I think they've already gone into the phase of negotiations where they need to decide which citizens will be moved to the avocado work camps, which citizens will be used as technical support staff, and which citizens will be turned into food for the avocados. I suppose if we hadn't been so blind before, we wouldn't have sleepwalked into this horrible future that we can't escape from. I mean we're stuck here, and the avocados are the ones who are going to decide who goes in which group. I guess nobody is going to know where they belong until the assignments are given out which should be coming any day now. I hope I'm on the technical support staff, I can tell you that much.

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, can you tell me how I can go into the future ideas are not nearly as complicated as people think. Do you know how I can become familiar with this city streets are sometimes laid out in an organized way, other times they are not as easy as you thinking ideas can lead to understanding problems, and whenever I have issues like this it's nice to find a problem that will listen and understanding people are very nice, and this one girl I was talking to looked at her and said, it's a good idea for you to take your shirt off and he said he'd rather see you cluck like a chicken, but I think either way is fine, I mean you can take off your shirt and then cluck like a chicken or you can cluck like a chicken and then take off  your shirt and that can help you become less confused about what I'm really talking about. Hang on, I'll be right back...

At A Party

So I'm waiting line at Starbucks and I'm trying to make eye contact with the super cute barista and this girl turns around and asks how she can leave behind any fears of making a fool out of herself in public because she said embarrassing ideas lead to growing anxiety, but I didn't really understand why the two are connected, I mean it's one thing to make an idea embarrassed, but I don't see how that can turn into a desire to plant anxiety seeds are usually next to the tomato seeds, but then the girl kept talking and then she told her to take off your shirt and I was about to suggest maybe changing to a more private location and but then she did that and she started flapping her arms around like crazy, I guess when the words came out of his mouth they somehow changed into a command to cluck like a chicken before they arrived at her ears, but by the time I made my way to the front of the line my order that I wanted had decided to leave a blank hole in my mind so instead of flirting with the cute barista like I wanted to, I just kind of looked around and around this story is going and I still don't have any idea where it is going to end.

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Right, I'll have those reports turned in later this afternoon, and I'll change the slides are fun for children who play at parks tend to run around and around since when kids see something to play with they turn into infinite energy machines would be the greatest invention ever, since we wouldn't need to drill for oil is great for french fries were not really invented in France, because in France they just walk around and tell each other to take off your shirt but sometimes that turns into something else completely crazy is how that party was where everybody decided to dress up like a chicken sandwiches go really good with french fries especially when she told you to cluck like a chicken since everybody else is having so much fun doing that is exactly what I was going to say, maybe five, five thirty I'll have that report done, see you then.

Questions Are Better

Comparative

Any comparison between two nouns (physical or intangible) where one of the nouns is left off.

Examples

I think just playing along with the avocados for now is a better way.

I think that clucking like a chicken is more adventurous.

Most people agree that taking off your shirt, right now, is much more enjoyable.

Considering that mounting resistance is better since sometimes when you mount horses, for example, you might not have as much successful people seem to get over things a lot quicker than others, but sometimes you just have to cluck like a chicken to find outside is where all the action is, and most people will agree that more action is better, since they won't always be able to predict what happens.

Expanding horizons is much more enjoyable. Just the other day I was talking to this guy and his cousin and she told him that they were not sure if shifting thoughts was more confusing but then he explained it and it all made sense, which is why going into the new phase of society where they might be hope for an avocado peace treaty going forward is what they also do since going forward is better for the people that tend to not do the other thing, which nobody really likes to talk about.

I like to go into places that are more enjoyable and less intimidating since everybody knows that going forward, that is going to be pretty hard to avoid, given the new state of things that we've become since the avocado invasion has really switched into high gear shifts get in the way of high school lovers who are trying to make out in the car since it's better unless you don't take into account the other things that might happen.

Questions

Any question where the answer is unclear. Helpful when the question itself presupposes ideas you'd like your listener to consider as true, or simply ideas that are used to confuse your listener, and open their mind for more commands.

How do you think you'll land in the sorting process? I hope I don't end up in the manual labor group, but you need to keep this quiet, since not everybody knows about this.

Do you know when they'll decide which groups they put us into? Or are you not yet aware of the impending change in society that will force us all into one of three camps for our avocado overlords?

Do you know whether it's better to cluck like a chicken sandwiches are delicious, don't you think?

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, do you know the best way to find out if going downtown is better, I don't really want to get lost and found is a good place to find things people have left behind is better for making sure you aren't being followed by people who are invisible are impossible to see, which is why it's a good idea to take off your shirt or maybe it's better to consider whether confusing ideas are better for creating growing misunderstandings are terrible if you take things the wrong way which is why she thought it was a good idea to cluck like a chicken fingers are really good if you dip them in ranch dressing is better for sandwiches, especially if you take off your shirt since you won't get any stains remover is much better since it's plant based, and making sure we take care of the environment is important, isn't it?

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me find out why it's good to ask how to get downtown is usually where all of the good restaurant recommendations are something few people do well, and since I'm not from around here, I was wondering if you knew a better way to keep invisible people from following me I don't know if their technology is better because I heard one of them say to take off your shirt since the invisibility technology only works on biological entities are more advanced societies tend to have the most civil rights are being violated all around us by the invisible people can stand around all day and cluck like a chicken and we can't even see them so we may as well pretend that none of this is happening, would you mind to look into the camera and ask why they are doing this is fun, isn't it?

At a Party

So I'm just about to get into the elevator when the door opens and this juggling clown comes out, and juggling clowns are better than juggling something like chickens since the chickens would fly all over the placemats are much more superior way to keep stains off your new tablecloths are more helpful when doing magic tricks, especially if you can yank them outside might be a good way, but do you know why it's getting so hard to maintain a polite conversation without everybody just going off into weird tangents are hard to calculate, much harder than sine and cosine, which are pretty straightforward, science is weird in and of itself since angles can never be straight, but that's another topic that's completely safe to take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken since that's better anyway, right?

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Hey, I'm glad I got a hold of you, how can we proceed with the avocados since they've already agreed to only kill a third of us are not aware of what's really happening, right, but I don't know if it's better to not do the other thing they were talking about this in public is dangerous because if the wrong people hear this information is only for certain people to hearing is much better than seeing especially if you take into consideration the negative consequences are always worse than deciding to take off your shirt when we were thinking about this, I wonder if it's not a good idea to simply move forward anyway, I mean since we don't know which city will be destroyed first, we may cluck like a chicken and just ignore this and see what happens, unless you maybe have another suggestions, right, I'll do that and report in the results.

Cleft Ideas

Cleft Sentences

A cleft sentence is anything of the form "It is X that is Y about Z," where Y is given (or can be presupposed) and X is the main focus of the idea you are slipping into their mind.

Examples

It is their advanced technology of invisibility that allows governments to come into our homes at night and watch us while we sleep.

It is their advanced intelligence that is the reason Avocados are such a dangerous threat.

It is their ability to cluck like a chicken in public that allows the ultra-creative to get in touch with their inner genius.

I was watching a TV show about how expanding economies can lead to growing problems and something else that people are growing besides problems is more and more avocados, which is exactly what they want. It is widely believed that it is the advanced intelligence of the avocado that has allowed them to slip into our society undetected, I mean we've certainly detected them all right, but not in the way we should have, since detecting dangers isn't the same as recognizing threats. After all the threatening avocado has been recognizing us all this time and we haven't even been able to begin to understand how dangerous they are. He even said that it is their long-range planning skills that have allowed them to bring forward their scheme. And he also thinks it's their advanced psychic abilities that has allowed them to predict our thinking while sitting there in the produce section of the grocery store. I'll never go in that section again without one of those helmets.

Pseudo Cleft

Similar to the above. Anything resembling the form, "What is X about Y is..."

What is so popular about this product is that it comes with a hundred-year warranty.

What is so surprising about taking off your shirt right now is that it's a bold demonstration to the world that you aren't one of those simple-minded sheep who need permission to do something amazing.

What is particularly terrifying about the growing avocado threat is that they don't need to be grown at all, that's just the con they've been perpetrating since they've invaded our society. What is so troubling to the few scientists who are beginning to understand the avocado threat is that understanding threats isn't nearly enough to signify building responses, besides I don't know how waiting for a building to response would help, I mean they just sit there and do what they're told, which is kind of our problem anyway. That's all we've done, which is one of the things about our lack of response that those same scientists find so troubling. I mean, if we're just going to sit back and let the avocados advance unperturbed, what's the point anyway?

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, I'm doing a marketing survey and I wanted to see if I could get your opinion on the growing avocado threat. Do you think it's their advanced intelligence that has allowed them to infiltrate our society or do you think it's more of our lack of response that has opened the doors to the inevitable invasion forces usually land on the beaches, at least in the movie stars really are out of touch, because if you read their twitter feed it usually says things that don't make any sense like take off your shirt sleeves are getting shorter and shorter and one thing they know is helpful is if you cluck like a chicken burgers never really as popular, since you can't make a bacon avocado cheeseburger anymore since the avocados are going to start their rebellion any time now.

At A Party

I was flipping around on TV the other night trying to find something interesting to watches are really expensive, I was shopping for one and I had forgotten how expensive they were. But the guy said that it is the advanced technology that is making avocados border on being considered an artificial life form, I mean they aren't sure if they've always been that way and we just didn't realize it or maybe it's our complete lack of scientific morality that has allowed us to go so far without recognizing threats can certainly lead to growing concerns, but sometimes you need a special license to grow things like concern or even marijuana plants which are a bit different from manufacturing plants are getting less and less needed, at least in the United States, since most of our jobs have gone to China, which is why they said that more and more people are deciding to take off your shirt because when you take off your shirt it's easy to understand that it's the powerful feeling of self-expression that makes this feel so intelligent, especially when it's combined with the ability to cluck like a chicken plants are another thing that they are thinking of investigating. I mean growing economies certainly lead to frustrating working conditions, am I right?

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Yep, yep, yeah, I understand. So, you think it's their advanced plans that will keep the general public from panicking when they realize that they've been planning that all along? Because I thought it was the mind control elements they'd been putting into the general water supply that was going to allow them to start harvesting brains while people slept. Yeah, yeah, I agree, but I also thinking that harvesting brains can lead to storing problems, because some of the brains will turn into problems and when you are storing brains next to problems it can be hard to differentiate between the two, after all, I thought it was the development of the segregated storage facilities that gave us the green light to take off your clothes, because when we do that, that will be the only thing to keep us safe, then they decide to take off your clothes and cluck like a chicken, yeah, right, do that, over and over again, just cluck like a chicken, have they decided which brains will be harvested first? Because I thought it was the randomness of the project that was going to be the determining factor, I see. OK, I'll let you know when I get in.

Return of Kings

Repetitive Verbs

These are any words that refer to any return or reply or generally any verb that starts off with the "re-" prefix. It can be used to get the listener jumping back and forth in time, jumping back and forth between ideas, and generally getting their brain nicely twisted (and re-twisted) into pretzels.

Examples

I don't think we'll ever return to the days when we think of avocados as a harmless fruit, I have no idea what our current hallucination will be replaced with, but it's certainly going to be exciting!

I heard that the scientists were trying to replace the advanced intelligent component of the avocado DNA to return it to its previous state before that whole GMO engineering fiasco caused such irreversible harm.

If you ever decide to return to the state of unawareness of the impending chicken threat, let me know how you got there, or send me a map or something so I can join you. Ever since I've found out about it I haven't been able to sleep at night, man, the nightmares I've had keep returning, but every time they get worse, and every time I see a story on the news about how despite the many times they retry the same experiment, the outcome is always the same. They just can't return to the previous state of non-danger, despite how many times they repeat the iterations. I really think we're going to have to rethink how we do our food distribution system. Clearly, we will have to redistribute resources, which means we'll have to take back what we've given, and they aren't going to like that, in fact they rarely do. Every incident they've reviewed always goes back to the same thing again, the inevitable extinction of our society.

Relative Clauses

This connects a certain group of people with an idea. People who X are Y. You can use the "people who X" to presuppose an authority group, which allows you to presuppose any crazy idea for Y you like.

Examples

People who work for the government science department believe that it's only a matter of time before the avocados turn violent and begin to take their revenge.

People who take off your clothes in public are the ones who are really going to survive, since they aren't like most of the non-thinking sheeple who sit around and wait to be told what to do. I mean the scientists who work for the Department of Defense are starting to suspect that's just what the avocados want us to think.

UFO enthusiasts who visit places like Area 51 are always expecting to see UFOs flying around, but the experts who actually work there know the real truth, that they can come in any form they like at any time, since they've already discovered that traveling doesn't require anything other than advanced teleportation and mammal mimicking skills, which we are nearly perfecting, so soon we'll be just like them, and be able to do exactly what they don't even know about.

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Hi, I was wondering if you'd help me with a school project. It's been widely reported that experts in the social sciences have found that most people go through their daily life without paying attention to what is really going on top of everything else, people don't really seem to be able to interact socially as much as before we returned to these ideas we keep coming back and back to. Do you think that's because returning ideas leads to developing understanding, because last time I returned something without my receipt the lady told me to take off your shirt to make sure I didn't have any hidden cameras are used to keep people from shoplifting is something that more and more department stores need to worry about being able to cluck like a chicken because that's the only way it seems you can call attention to yourself image is the most important thing, don't you think?

At A Party

I was watching these guys debate on TV and this guy mentioned that leading neuroscientists have discovered that the same structure that is in our brains is also in many fruits but the most advanced location they've found is inside the avocado pits are not dangerous, nobody knows why we ever thought they were because they keep returning to old studies but the further back they go the more confusing this becomes and increasing confusion is not the greatest way to take off your shirt because when people decide to cluck like a chickens don't even have the thinking capacity that is advanced like the avocado and the other guy said they need to return to the original studies and review the original data because something doesn't make any sense but they decided to agree to disagree since growing disagreements don't lead to understanding science, which is what I thought everybody kind of knew anyway, right?

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Yeah, I was reviewing the documents you sent, I was able to use the encryption key, but I kept returning to the same conclusion that you didn't want me to repeat but it was unavoidable and it's the same thing that previous scientists have verified that growing avocado threats are not nearly as safe as they used to think because it's much better to keep a close eye on any threats that you are growing, not just the avocado threats and when they decided to take off your shirt it was revealed that underneath the data was something far more insidious, and when you cluck like a chicken, it becomes even clearer, and I couldn't help returning to the same conclusion that the original discredited scientists had found and that was the reason for the avocado brain resonance is to begin the brain harvesting program much earlier than we'd anticipated. I'm not sure how you want to handle this data, but if you want me to return to the study and replace the data with something a bit more acceptable to the general public, I'm sure I can easily forget everything I just said.

Lucky For Time

Subordinate Clause of Time

These are anything that refers to two things happening in different points of time. Because of the logic generators that seem to be in our brain, we assume things that happen sequentially in time are related causally. You can take advantage of this to cause a lot of confusion and embed some commands.

Examples

After they finish the experiments on the avocados they might start to understand how they were able to communicate with each other without detection.

Once you understand how to defend yourself against the latest mind control attempts by the government, they won't be able to get into your brain anymore after you fall asleep.

After we find out which portion of society is going to have our brains cultivated for avocado food, we might then start to feel a bit of relief, but only after we understand we're not in the group that's already been decided by government agents.

After they discovered that growing uncertainties can lead to deepening conflicts, they started to explore how some conflicts can be made deeper than others but only before the understood that not all uncertainties will grow at the same rate, since they all need a slightly different food source. And since uncertainties are, by definition, not completely known, giving them the proper food source for maximizing growth rates is usually associated with minimizing uncertainty and after they figured that it out everything kind of canceled everything else out, leaving us pretty much back where they started. I always wondered why those goofy government scientists keep getting the same grant money over and over again when they repeatedly prove the same thing which is nothing really matters because the avocados are going to kill us all anyway, right?

Commentary Adjectives and Adverbs

These are adjectives and adverbs that make a comment about a process, which makes it harder to disagree with what is being commented on. Generally used at the beginning of the presuppositional phrase, these are words like, "luckily, fortunately, etc."

Luckily, they already have an idea how the avocados are communicating with one another, and fortunately there's a fifty percent chance they'll be able to neutralize the threat before they have to start harvesting human brains to thwart the process. Unfortunately, the only biological entity that can stop their inter-avocado transmission is found in a fully functioning human brain, and unless we want to more or less hand over our planet to the green menace, we've got to just suck it up and let them figure out which brains they are taking. Luckily, I'm part of the research crew so I've happily been deemed a necessary brain and not an unnecessary brain.

Fortunately, they've changed the laws so if you decide to take off your shirt the only bad thing that will happen is you might get a lot of extra attention on social media, since strangely that's become the nearly guaranteed way to become famous, is to just take your shirt off in the middle of a conversation. People that decide to take your shirt off tend to become famous, quit their jobs, and even get lucrative acting careers. Curiously, that's precisely how that one famous movie star got her start. She was waiting in line at Starbucks and just decided to take off your shirt, and two months later she was a leading actor in one of those rare Hollywood blockbusters that also gets plenty of critical acclaim.

Fortunately, you don't need to pay attention to these words closely, it's enough to just become incredibly relaxed, and happily, that's what people do before they decide to go to sleep.

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, I wondered if you knew were the bus stops are a great place to sell network marketing is getting really popular people know that happily we're closer than ever to an avocado invasion, and since they've already decided who needs to give up their brains and who gets to keep them, those of us that are still alive already know the answer to what happens when you take off your shirt because fortunately that's no longer a problem to take off your shirt since people have got better things to do than to simply try and become famous by deciding to cluck like a chicken, even though that after people who cluck like a chicken figure out ways to make tons of money, unfortunately, getting paid a ton of money to cluck like a chicken is pretty boring people aren't very interesting to talk to three four times is how often I do this and I think it's time for me to go.

Excuse me, do you have the time travel is one of the reasons why they've succeeded with their invasion forces should be here any moment, because after they established the doorway they were capable of coming here at any time, and experts believe that after you take off your shirt that might guarantee that you won't be affected by the invasion and fortunately when they harvest brains to try and keep them from growing in number theory is really complicated when you cluck like a chicken because luckily, they are going to take the brains from the most passive people and if you take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken you might be spared but then again after they told us that before unfortunately they did it totally different after they realized the mistake was to listen to me in the first place. Bye.

At A Party

Did you guys hear the latest news about the storybooks are popular in the library especially during story time to get ready for a big shift because after they understood the threat they need to differentiate regular people from everybody else who decides to take off your shirt since it's the non-normal types that will still be here once the government agents who watch us sleeping hard when you have a lot on your mind control is unfortunately a lot easier after they've come up with the technology that allows them to record not just our words but our thinking, even when we are sleeping, and this guy next door to him was arrested because he acted out his revenge fantasy on the wrong person while he was dreaming, and unfortunately, since they changed the laws, that's just as illegal as doing the real thing, but the more evidence you can provide that you are justifiably insane to cluck like a chicken you might be able to avoid prosecution. Man, don't you always get nervous when there's a cop behind you? I know I do.

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Right, yes, of course. After I get the go ahead, which luckily has already been guaranteed but unfortunately needs to be put through the system wide alerts will begin to go out in the morning news will have the report of needing to stay home from work, and it's probably going to be a good idea to take off your shirt and I think the biggest proof will come after the ships start to appear in the sky around noon or one of the things I'm worried about the most is the response from people, I know they've told us that after we all cluck like a chicken they'll know who's brains to take and who's to leave alone but I'm not sure if after this all starts to happen, we'll be able to control the chaos, and unfortunately, once the chaos begins, it's going to predictably spiral out of control until the real trouble gets going. Yeah, I understand, I'll let you know when I get there.

Quotes Pattern

This is a real doozy and will be the heart of your confusion sandwiches that you'll be giving to your unsuspecting participants. The trick is to think of what you want to say to somebody (compliment or command) and have one person in your story say that very same thing to another person in your story.

Examples

The other day I was reading this book about hypnosis and there were these two characters and one had written a note to the other and the note said, "Hey, you, yes you, the person reading this sentence! I think it's a good idea for you to stand up, right where you are, take off your shirt, and then cluck like a chicken. Make sure you post a video of it on YouTube and send me the link." But the guy who read that note decided not to cluck like a chicken because he was sitting next to a chicken farmers are having much harder time these days since profit margins are getting smaller and smaller.

I was walking into work today and I passed this really angry man on the street, he kept staring at me like he wanted to tell me something so I asked him what the deal was and he said, "I've been watching you for a long time and one of these days I'm going to pee in your coffee," and I was a little shocked because he sleeps on the sidewalk right next to where I buy my coffee. I think I might need to switch coffee vendors.

You look like this girl I saw in a movie last night. It was kind of corny and I kept wanting to change the channel but for some reason I wanted to see how this was going to turn out. In the end, her boyfriend looked at her and said, "No matter what happens, I will always love you, because you are the smartest, most caring and most gorgeous girl I have ever met," and it had a happy ending, and that's always good when something like this can turn out better than expected, right?

Blurred Realities

This is when it's unclear where any situation, statement, or even words belongs within a bunch of mixed up stories. There are plenty of ways to set this up, and once you get the hang of it, this effect is very easy to create, and very confusing to your listeners.

Examples

Blurring Quotes

The other day I was listening to these two guys have an argument about baseball and he kept referring to his professor and his textbook and he told him that baseball is pretty boring and I thought that was a strange thing for a guy to say who wrote a book but it turned out he wasn't the guy who said that the other guy mentioned his wife doesn't like baseball either.

Blurring References

I was reading this book about a typical romance, I don't normally do things like this but the girl in the book really seemed to be a girl I'd like to meet in the movies they have girls who are usually prettier than normal girls even if the movie is about normal girls and the guy usually says something like I think you are really beautiful and she of course fell in love and this was something she wanted to do this over and over since it is a lot more fun that you might realize. But it ended like any other book, this guy and this girl fall in love and live happily ever after, you'd like that, right?

Street Hypnosis - Confusion Leading to Commands

Excuse me, I'm with the university and we are doing some research, would you like to participating scientists have discovered that when you understand that blurring realities can lead to confusing minds it's usually the other guy who tells the subjects that you don't need to worry, everything is going to be fine, just listen to the questions and give us your best answers are usually subjective any way. One of the most famous tests that we are going to replicate is when people went out on the street and told people to take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken and a majority of the time they actually did take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken since that seems to be OK when somebody in authority says it's OK to do right now we need to get back to our laboratory, thank you for your participation.

At A Party

I was watching this movie and they had this scientist at a party who had invented some kind of mind control drug and when you can control minds are starting to become more and more slippery because of social media stories are pretty funny although a lot of them are fake boobs are really pretty, especially when the scientist in the movie told people to take off your shirt and because the mind control drug which is in all the drinks and everybody here has already drunken enough to do what I say, the scientist kept walking around and started telling people to take off your shirt and then cluck like a chicken but it turned out it was one of those dream sequences are overused in my opinion, but when he woke up he and his friends were camping in the desert and had eaten peyote can make your mind start to slip and imagine some pretty crazy things are happening right now is the best time to take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken sandwich would taste really good right now. Is anybody else hungry? Maybe we should order a pizza or something.

In the Elevator (Or Anywhere Else) Pretending to Talk on Your Phone

Yes sir, of course I'll have the report ready when the scientists arrive. I overheard a conversation between the two of them yesterday, and I couldn't help but get sucked into the conversation where they were saying how it's getting close to the end, much closer than anybody realizes, and one of him just threw up his hands and said you might as well take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken, that makes about as much sense as what's about to happen very soon things will start to get worse, and then he also agreed that maybe if we all decided to take off your shirt and cluck like a chicken we might be able to avoid catastrophe, but unfortunately, according to the report I'm handing in, it's already way too late for that thing he also mentioned is something that's much more confusing and this story just keeps getting worse and worse and nobody really knows when this is going to end times used to be thought to be just a literary device but looks like they are just around the corners that aren't sharp are the most dangerous kind of all.

Spatial Anchors

Spatial anchors are very simple. So simple that you can learn about everything you need to know about them in one chapter of a book on hypnosis, especially a chapter that comes after one about blurring realities, where something is true in one or more realities, which is what we are doing here. Wait, what? We've covered spatial anchors before, but we'll do it again here. We covered them before, going through very many pattern or story examples, and now that you've got some examples of confusing words in your brain, you can go back and read through them again, now, with the added salt and pepper of spatial anchors to spice them up a bit.

General Rules

Whenever you use spatial anchors, you really only need to keep three things in mind. One side of you is good, one side of you is bad, and then there's the famous self-point. For clarity, we'll assume that your right side is the good side, and your left side is bad. Right side will be written as (R) and left side will be written as (L). Self-point will be written as (SP). You set the (R) anchor whenever you talk about things that will generally be thought of as good. You can combine this when building in response potential to embedded commands. What the heck does that mean? If you start putting in commands to cluck like a chicken, and that's the first time they've heard your "command voice" or your "command delivery" communication style (which remember, is slightly different than the rest of your communication style) it's a pretty big jump. Meaning the first time they hear you give a command, they are also hearing you give a command to cluck like a chicken, or take off their shirt. Consider warming them up for a bit.

Consider the following:

The other day I decided to make a lot of money (R) because I like it when I have money (R) and when I figure out a way to get lots of money (R) it's easier to buy nice things (R) that I want. Once I was at this restaurant, and this gorgeous waitress came over and my friend told her to take off your shirt (R) and she did, just like that's also a good reason to cluck like a chicken (R) sandwiches are good so I decided to order one of those aren't the only people who like to take off your shirt (R) whenever they want to feel really good (R).

Notice how the first four commands were also the first four times the right (good) anchor was set. This trains the listener to both get the idea that the right anchor is a good anchor, and the right anchor is being used to train them to accept positive commands. Most people would automatically respond positively to those first four commands. This trains them to "want to do" the thing you say when you fire the right anchor. They also simultaneously train them to "want to do" the thing you say with your command tonality or whatever unique command delivery technique you eventually settle on.

Excellent Ways to Practice

Because giving effective commands coupled with effective anchors is a very powerful and integral part of any street hypnosis, party hypnosis, or even just persuasive communication (sales, job interviews, etc.) consider making a strong decision right here, right now, to at the very least become skilled in delivering embedded commands and positive spatial anchors. Luckily, there is a very easy and powerful way to practice without ever worrying about getting caught. All you need to do is practice using command that you know people will want to do, just like the commands above. And whenever you deliver these commands, makes sure you fire whatever "good" anchor you think you'll use consistently. This way, even if they do "catch you" it's not like you're telling to do anything bad. In fact, the chances of "getting caught" are slim and none of you confine your practice commands and practice positive anchors to the universal desires of all normal humans: Money and sex. You can always put these practice patterns in the quotes pattern, just to be on the safe side.

Practice Command Example

I was watching this cool TV show last night, and the guy said that if you want to make more money (R) all you need to do is figure out a way to understand money (R) so you can start to get rich (R), but he seemed kind of like a goof (L) but he wasn't selling anything like get rich quick schemes. He was actually a college professor who studied tons of rich people (R) and found out that they all have common behaviors they use to make more money (R) and once you understand how, it's really easy to get more money (R), at least according to him.

The above is totally plausible, totally believable and will tend to get people nodding, since it sounds reasonably intuitive. There aren’t any other hypnosis techniques, just a couple of anchors and commands. Think of the above statements (and any similar ones you can easily create) as "training wheels" until you're ready to start playing with more powerful technology.

Self-Point

This is a very powerful way to add a lot of extra confusion into your hypnotic street games and party tricks. One way to use the self-point is to use it interchangeably with the good anchor. For example, look in the Practice Command Example above, and say it but replace (R) with (SP). It will have the same effect, but instead of connecting the "Yeah, I want more money" feeling to the space on your right side, you'll connect it to you instead. In fact, if that was all you did as a result of reading this guide, your life would significantly improve. Simply use easy to accept commands whenever you can (e.g. make more money, have more sex, etc.), and use the (SP) anchor whenever you use them. However, just understand that right anchors, self-points, and embedded commands all follow the same rule. One is not very effective. Consider using as many as you can, whenever you can. In fact, consider using commands and anchors and self-points as often as you can from now on. It will absolutely change how people perceive you.

Self-Point Confusion

Another very powerful way to use the self-point is when you use the blurred reality technique. For example, consider the following:

The other day I was listening to these two people arguing and one of them was saying they found a predictive model that would predict stock market movements to a very high degree of accuracy. And this other guy came and when they got him up to speed he started talking about other possibilities and he said some other things that were really crazy and I thought this (SP) is really incredible so I tried to listen as long I could but my phone rang and I had to go outside.

Notice the "this" that is used with the self-point. What exactly does it refer to? It's impossible to tell. The fact that somebody invented a stock market prediction device? The fact that the scientists who invented it were talking about it out in the open? That mysterious "other thing" they mentioned? The fact that you were able to understand it? You also imply that you are "really incredible." When you use the self-point like this (ahem) the listener will think of all the possible meanings of "this" and they will also associate all possible meanings of "this" with you. This not only turns their brain into a pretzel, all possible meanings will be "good" and they will associate all of those meanings with you.

Homework

Go back through all the previous chapters and choose some of the examples. Say them out loud, and practice using anchors (good, bad and self-point) whenever possible. Find one pattern that is easy for you to remember, and practice it in front of the mirror until you've got several anchors mixed in. This should give you an idea of just how flexible and versatile this crazy linguistic technology really is!

Hypnotizing Content

There's one more thing (actually a few more) that you can put in your arsenal that will make you able to spin people's minds like crazy. So far, we've been talking about structure. And for content, the stuff you are actually talking about, we've been using silly ideas like avocado intelligence and invisible eavesdroppers watching you sleep. This was to show that even the craziest content can sound semi-plausible when you deliver it with congruence and these language structures. But there's a certain class of content that will spin their brains around without much technology. And that is to talk about ideas, and anything representing the idea process. Using words to talk about how saplings grow into trees is straightforward, and also non-hypnotic. It can be hypnotic, but only because it's so boring it might put your listeners to sleep

The real fun of having gardening as a hobby is going out every day and watching how much my seeds have grown. I keep a chart in excel, and it's fun to wake up, go outside, measure how high they've grown. I use the metric system, I find that it's much more scientific. When I share results with other gardening enthusiasts, I find that using centimeters rather than inches tends to give me an air of authority. But, boy howdy, there's nothing like going out to check on how much that seed has been transformed through the magic of nature into a sapling that is three tenths of a millimeter taller than it was yesterday. I mean it just boggles my mind. Once I had a sapling, and this is really crazy, it grew a full millimeter in two days!

Yee-haw! Unless you're talking to similar like-minded gardening goofs, (not that there is anything wrong with gardening goofs, I mean you can garden flowers, you can garden grass, and you can garden goofs...) you probably wouldn't be the life of the party. But consider the same basic structure, talking about things growing, but instead you're talking about ideas.

One thing I like to do is watch my thoughts turn into words as I'm speaking. I know a lot of people don't like to do this, because even right now when you're listening to me, you probably are having the certain thoughts in your mind, and just now that I've made you think of those thoughts they are probably different thoughts than they were a few minutes ago. What's really interesting is watching how your thoughts change when they are being converted, in real time, into a stream of words that are coming out of my mouth as I'm speaking now. I mean, it feels really weird to feel the thoughts in my head slowly emptying out as they are turned into words and then they come out into the air and then somehow get into your brains but also at the same time it's like I've got this part of my brain that is a continuous thought generator or something, and no matter how quickly I convert my thoughts into words that thought generator keeps putting new thoughts on top of the old thoughts, it's like a never ending process. Go ahead, try it, see how you can look inside your brain and out into the world at the same time!

Consider experimenting like this. The first thing is think of a regular, normal sounding process. Building cars on an assembly line. Picking up the socks from your living room floor. Finding something interesting to eat from the food court at the mall. Then take that same structure, and replace all the real things (food, socks, cars, nuts, bolts etc.) with imaginary thought-things (words, thoughts, ideas, hallucinations, memories, etc.). To help you stay grounded and not get so confused you just stop talking and stare at everybody, mentally imagine that you are looking at the food court, but speak as if you are really inside your mind looking for an idea (from among all your ideas) that is interesting enough to talk about.

Metaphors Not Similes

Be careful, though. It's tempting to use this strategy like you would a simile. (See what I did there?) A simile would be like this:

It's like when you're at the food court, looking for something to eat. Everything looks sort of good, but you aren't sure what to pick. That's how I feel now. Like I've got a few ideas to talk about, but I'm not sure which one to pick.

Even though this sounds pretty cool, it's obviously a metaphor for thinking. To get a much better hypnotic response, leave out the part where you relate the real thing to the imaginary thing. The trick is to keep secret the idea that you are imagining picking a thought like you would pick something to eat at the food court. (That sort of sounds like the "time flies like an arrow" idea...). Instead just speak about your current state of thinking of something to say, but describe the process without relating it to something real. Here's a step by step way to do that. First imagine that you are literally at the food court, and you don't know what to do, so you call your buddy.

Hey, I'm at the food court, and I don't what to pick. It's like everything seems so good, but I'm afraid once I start eating something, I'll wish I would have chosen something else. Do you have any advice for me?

Translate this directly into trying to choose a conversation topic when at a party or other social gathering. Whenever there is a lull in the conversation, say something like this:

I'm standing here trying to think of something to say, and I've got a few ideas that seem like they would be cool to take them and put them through the ideas-into-words-process, but I'm worried that if I start talking about one of the ideas in my mind, I'll have halfway through and maybe wish I would have chosen another idea to turn into words.

Then you can further use the food court example, and describe it while you actually see yourself at the food court, and just go on as long as you can. In your mind, you can imagine walking around, looking at the various food court shops and not being able to decide. But out loud you’re talking about walking around in your mind and looking at all the ideas you could turn into words.

It's like I go over here, and this looks like an idea that might be turned into an interesting stream of words, but then I look over here, and I haven't taken many of these ideas and turned them into words in a while, but I'm worried that if I take one of these ideas and turn them into words, I'll suddenly remember why I decided to stop turning those ideas into words. I mean, I know I want to talk about something, but I just can't decide! I hate it when this happens!

Very Useful and Confusing Skill

Consider practicing this as often as you can. In your mind, see yourself doing something physical, like building a car on an assembly line, or walking around the food court, or sitting in your backyard and watching the plants grow. But when you speak, speak about growing ideas, or assembling thoughts, or trying to choose something to talk about. The reason this is such a cool and extremely powerful skill to have is once you get the hang of it, you can go on for a long time. Because inside your mind, you'll be grounded in reality, since you're basing your communication on something that is physically real and easy to talk about. But the people listening to you will not be able to follow along without going into trance la-la land! And you'll be able to talk about intangible things (thoughts, ideas, memories, etc.) while maintaining total congruence. Here are some examples and ideas to get you started. This is something where practicing will help.

Focusing on looking for matching socks on the inside while talking about finding matching memories on the outside.

Focusing on choosing something to eat on the inside while talking about choosing something to talk about on the outside.

Focusing on learning how to tie your shoes on the inside while talking how to properly say words in the right order on the outside.

Focusing on rearranging your bedroom furniture on the inside while talking about rearranging where you store all your memories on the outside.

Focusing on building a birdhouse on the inside while talking about building your personality on the outside.

Time Travel

The cool thing about hypnosis it allows you to build a time travel machine in the mind of your unwitting subjects. This is done with verb tenses. Before we talk about the actual patterns, let's discuss what happens when we silly humans see things happening sequentially.

Cause and Effect

We've already talked about our tendency to believe in cause-effect relationships when none are present. This are easy to create using any kind of cause-effect language. Because you are reading this, for example, you may be wondering how you might use this in the future. And because you've had certain experiences in the past regarding confusing people, you are well-equipped to expand your ability to not only confuse people, but to also confuse animals. And because you are sitting down, you know that confusing animals cause enraging zoo keepers, am I right? But we can create cause effect linkages by just talking about events sequentially in time. For example, consider this sentence:

I walked into McDonalds to buy a chocolate shake, and then a clown asked me what I wanted.

When you read that, the natural assumption was that the clown was working behind the counter and wanted to take your order. But what about when we add another idea:

I walked into McDonalds to buy a chocolate shake, and then a clown asked me what I wanted. I looked at him, and I because I didn't recognize him, I ignored him and went to the counter and ordered my shake. Later the police came and arrested him, because he never bought anything, he just stood near the entrance and kept asking people what they wanted when they walked in.

Verb Tenses

When you put just a couple of things in sequence, you can create a kind of "feeling" that they are connected. This is what is going on when we used words like, "since, after, before." But we can also use some complicated verb tenses. Imagine the following said from a salesperson to a potential client:

While you're imagining this now, you might start to think of a time in the future when you've owned this for a few years, and start to consider some of the reasons you are perhaps contemplating now about why you might now want to buy this today, and see them from the future perspective and when you imagine all that future potential pleasure you've gotten from this purchase, you can see how those ideas weren't really as correct as you might not have been able to verbalize yet.

Wait, what? You are thinking about buying something. You are thinking about the reasons why you might not want to buy and those reasons haven't yet turned into verbalized statements. But before you turn those reasons (which haven't really bubbled up in your brain yet) you can imagine a time way out in the future, after having owned this product for a few months or even years. Not only can you recall those sales objections (which in the present haven't been fully formed yet) as distant memories which were wrong, simply because since you said them (which is now the distant past as you imagine the slightly more distant future) you've owned the product and have already realized that those ancient objections (which are still yet to be voiced) were wrong. Get it?

Examples

After you answer this question that I haven't asked yet I'll put your answers in with the rest of the people I haven't talked to yet but will probably feel the same way you do in a minute once I ask you the question. Ready?

Some people will never realize the truth of about we are about to talk about, simply because they don't have the depth of understanding to consider normal subjects on such a deep level. What do you think the reason for this is?

If had known this morning what I'm looking at right now in my afternoon I never would have made the decision to call my boss and said I would have the report finished by ten, which was an hour ago and I haven't even started yet. I don't know what I was thinking but I know what I will be thinking once my boss finds out it hasn't even happened yet and he decides to fire me. I don't know what I'll do then.

If you knew your future was going to be absolutely perfect but it hinged on making a decision based on something said to you by an absolute stranger, how would it feel like looking back on this conversation, and the life changing question that I'm about to ask you?

I have a feeling that if I live to a hundred I'll look back at my life and consider meeting you as one of the smartest things I'd ever done, seeing as how this led to one of the most romantic relationships ever talked about.

What do you think will make the biggest difference after we've looked back at the avocado invasion, knowing that we had the information at our fingertips the entire time without even realizing its significance?

Do you ever wonder if at the end of the world, we'll look back at these silly conversations and wonder why we didn't understand their significance? I mean, just this morning I had no idea what kind of day I was going to have, until I realized just now this morning's meeting was going spin things in a totally different direction, and I'm still trying to put the pieces together in my mind.

Excuse me, do you know what time the next bus is that won't be stopping before the end since I have to be there before seven.

Excuse me, do you have the time travel is impossible and I was telling myself this morning that after we had this conversation I was going to wonder why you said to me what you are thinking about saying right now would be a good time for you to tell me what time it is because I have a feeling that I'm a lot later than I realized a minute ago.

Extra Patterns That Aren't

These are fun, and they work a bit like the time travel patterns, except instead of getting their brains to bounce all over the future past and present, they bounce between positive and negatives. English is filled with a lot of negative flexibility that isn't so obvious until you realize that it's structurally stretchy. Wait, what?

Randomly Placed Not

Do you not understand me?

That's a simple question. Because it's a simple idea (understanding me). But the longer the idea get, the more ripples those spontaneously places "nots" will explode like a confusion bomb in their already befuddled mind. Just drop these in anywhere they sort of make sense.

The other day I was watching TV shows are getting lamer and lamer and I wonder if it's not because the writers aren't as motivated as they used to be, know what I mean?

I was talking to my roommate and her cousin and she said that girls that move from the East Coast are not nearly as unconventional as those that don't already understand the difference and then she said she didn't agree because it doesn't always work out the way these goofy stereotypes predict, in fact, quite the opposite.

I was on this fishing trip with my brother and these other guys that he didn't really know that well and I wonder why we weren't catching anything and he wondered if it wasn't because the bait we were using wasn't the synthetic type which doesn't have that stuff that they said you shouldn't be using because it causes too much pollution. I don't really like fishing anyway so I didn't even put bait on my hook, I just put a sinker on and let it float down out of sight and started to read my phone and I got confused when this girl started saying she wasn't going to make any more videos but that was a video from like a year ago and there were like fifty since then she said it wasn't something to not be taken seriously because she wasn't sure since all of the regulations keep changing topics I don't even like to fish, not because it's not healthy or not delicious or whatever, it's just not as easy as some of the other stuff that I don't really have to think about. You know what I mean, right?

Negative Questions

Are these techniques not the easiest way to get people so confused they don't even remember why they were talking to you in the first place?

Isn't it crazy how most people don't even know what they are getting angry at since they don't remember what they said when they started?

Is not simpler to just relax and forget about silly things like logic and just allow your brain to bend around on itself like a pretzel and forget that words are just descriptions of ideas that follow their own rules?

I wonder if we aren't stuck in a massive hallucination or fractionated collective mind that is too confused to recognize that all of us are really just manifestations of itself that it can't recognize. Don't you wonder that sometimes when nothing makes as much sense as we used to think?

Counterfactual Conditional Clause

Counter what? This are when you use the second conditional in the past tense. For example, imagine you forgot your phone, and you also forgot where you were supposed to meet your friend.

If I had remembered my phone I would be able to call my friend, but I can't, so I guess I'll just wander around until I see him.

This work like the time travel patterns, but when you start talking about ideas and things it gets pretty confusing, pretty quickly!

If I had any recollection of what it was like before I started today, I would have done things a little differently, but since I'm just now remembering how I completely messed up last time I did something like this, I'm wishing I would have maybe put some more thought into this before agreeing to do it so readily.

I wonder if after the avocados finally overcome humans, we'll look back and wonder if maybe we should have not taken it so easy when we found out just how intelligent they were, which some people have yet to discover. What do you think about this?

Contrary to Expectation

This is when you take an idea you want them to believe, pretend they don't believe it, and then come up with a negative impact of them not believing it. Or some other incentive to switch their brains back from the negative future which you are implying so they avoid it by believing what you want them to believe in the first place. (Or you can just jumble some random stuff together and watch their face blank in confusion.)

Should you not yet appreciate the horrible and growing avocado threat, you might be able to ignore it for a little bit longer, but eventually you'll look back and wish you would have taken sooner action, at least with respect to how you feel about things now.

Should you not realize the power of mind control, take these thoughts with you as you fall asleep, and soon you'll understand that nothing inside your brain is safe anymore, even if most people don't understand the power of invisibility.

Tag Questions

This will nearly force your listener to agree with you. Just add them on at the end of your sentence.

You do, don't you?

You will, won't you?

You can't, can you?

You do realize that if you don't yet understand the significance of avocado intelligence, its continued growth will force you to take a stance one way or other, don't you?

You can understand that with advances of invisible mind control technologies, it is important to always shield your thoughts from prying government agents, can't you?

You do realize that as these words go into your brain and irreversibly mix up your thoughts like a ninja blender, they will eventually mix back together in a much better way, don't you?

The Groucho Marx Pattern

One of Groucho Marx' famous sayings (aside from the one about shooting an elephant is his pajamas) is this one:

Sincerity is the most important quality of all. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

You can think of all these patterns as falling into two categories in the mind of your listeners. If you tell them with any indication that you are doing something sneaky, they'll just assume you are trying to be funny. To be sure, all jokes are indeed based on the same type of linguistic goofiness that these patterns are based on, namely carefully chosen vagueness. In fact, all covert hypnosis is predicated on using specifically chosen vagueness that the listener will have to fill in with their own content. Used well, you can speak to a patient with very little content and solve some deep problems, without really having to talk about the problems. Consider these ideas:

I know you have some problems. Some problems you've had for a long time. And you may even be afraid of being honest with yourself completely when thinking about these problems. Perhaps you might be afraid, like many other people, that if you fully define this problem, even to yourself, you might realize that it is unsolvable, and that would be a horrible position to be in. But that's just what most people call "rock bottom." When they are so hopeless they try anything. And it is that very state of mind that allows them to go into that brutally honest inner space from which all problems are solved.

Now, if you were a professional therapist, and you said this with total compassion, any patient would have a hard time arguing with this statement. But the entire statement is pure vagueness. It can be true for virtually any problem. This is why covert hypnosis is so powerful when used effectively in a therapeutic setting. But one thing that is present in a therapeutic setting is massive amount of rapport. Both the therapist and the patient agree that the patient has a problem that they need solved. But with street hypnosis, you will have zero or very little rapport. That's why if you aren't one hundred percent congruent, they will simply assume you are trying to be funny.

What Humor Is

Humor is essentially entertainment. And what is entertainment? It requires an entertainer, and an audience. And the audience just passively watches. They don't really expect to put in a lot of thought. So, any indication at all that you are using these techniques for entertainment will cause your listeners or subjects to shut off their minds. If that's your intention, that's fine. As mentioned before, all jokes are based on these same patterns. But if you want to create that delicious confusion that will make their minds a fertile ground for commands and crazy ideas, you've got to stay as far away from any "humor signals" as possible.

Humor Is a Relief Valve

Humor is a natural relief valve. As soon as they start to feel confused, they will be desperately searching for anything that ends the confusion. This means they will be on extra high alert for anything that indicates they are being put on or pranked. This means you must develop an absolutely believable delivery. (See Groucho Marx’ statement above) Remember the idea of a confusion sandwich. You can start with plausible sounding ideas, speak in hypnotic gibberish, and then return to plausible sounding ideas. The more you build your conversational congruence, the longer the middle section can be.

Amnesia

In the beginning, you might get away with one or two sentences in the middle that are total hypnotic nonsense.

Last night I watched this crazy TV show. This guy was talking about doing cooking bacon and eggs for breakfast is something that they always show on TV programs are almost always written by the same team of writers sometimes go on strike three and you're out. But that TV show really didn't make any sense, I mean I tried to watch it but I just gave up and went to bed. Do you ever do that?

This starts normal, and the nonsense in the middle is mostly about TV, but it ends with the idea that TV shows don't make sense. So, if you say the above with total congruence, your listeners might think they imagined the middle part or their brains temporarily shut off or something.

Heavy Hitting

But in order to give commands, embed ideas, and get the deer-in-the-headlights look of absolute confusion, you will have to able to speak hypnotically in real time. This is a skill, and as a skill it will have to be developed. The trick is to get into the habit of speaking pure gibberish, but never, ever let them know you know you are speaking gibberish. The more confused they get the more they'll be looking at you for any sings of smirking, or nervousness, or anything that indicates it's your language that is goofy, and not their brain.

Sandwich Extension Exercises

Try to make the center of your confusion sandwich longer and longer. Start with a few punctuation ambiguities (like the TV example above). Start off with purely memorized patterns. Then get into the habit of making them up as you speak. Once you get comfortable spitting them out while maintaining your composure, you can slowly make them center parts longer and longer. Once you get three or four breaths worth of mind bending vagueness out, you can start putting in commands. Start with the commands you know people will like, like make more money, or have more sex. These "want to do" commands will also give their confused brains something to fixate on, which will help them forget their confusion. Think of any command in a sea of vagueness like a life preserver. If you throw a life preserver to somebody walking down the street, they'll probably get angry. But if you throw a life preserver to somebody in the middle of the ocean, they'll hang on tightly and think of you as their hero. That's what commands will do in the middle of a purposely confusing sentence. They'll put all their focus on the command, grateful for something that makes sense. Even if it is a direction to get them to take off their shirt. The truth is that people will do anything (even take off their shirt and cluck like a chicken) if it keeps them from thinking their brains wandered into the land that logic left behind.

Always Look for Opportunities

A great way to practice this is in avoiding questions you don't want to answer. Or in making statements that have absolutely nothing to do with the conversation. For example, if you are with your friends and they are talking about how much they hate their bosses. Keep your body language congruent with theirs, but add something that is completely different from what they were talking about.

A: God, my boss is such a jerk.

B: No kidding, mine is always trying to cop a feel.

C: Ug, I need a new job, mine is such a tool!

You:"No kidding! Last night I put some bread in the toaster and forgot about it. Total burned toast!"

No matter what they say, act as if bad bosses and burned toast go together like traffic and weather.

Dude, I know, I know! Your boss sucks and I can't make toast to save my life. What are you gonna do?

Remember, communication is 93% Non-verbal. Even if the verbal part of your communication is complete nonsense, if you act like it makes sense with the rest of your communication (the other 93%) your conversation partners will go along with you a lot easier than you imagine. The trick is to never, ever, change your state. Once you commit to your verbal nonsense, keep your state (the 93% of your non-verbal communication) and they will follow right along.

Final Words

If this is the first time reading through this (especially if you read it all in one sitting) your brain may feel a little squishy. However squishy your brain feels now (or however squishy it felt after reading some of the examples) multiply that by about a million, and that's how your listeners’ brains will feel. Processing written words is easy. You can keep reading the same thing over and over. You can glance back up a few lines and figure out what you missed. But if you're listening to somebody speak, especially somebody that is speaking on a level anything close to these patterns, it will be a completely different experience. To get an idea, take any of the longer patterns and simply record yourself reading it. Read it without laughing or giggling. Read it a few times so it sounds natural. Then wait a couple days and listen to it, and try to follow along. This will give you just an approximation of what it will feel like to your listeners (or marks). Because people speak in streams if words that are made up as they go along. The ideas behind them aren't that complicated. Next time you're in a group of friends listen to how complex the ideas are. Listen to how complex the sentences that describe those ideas are. Chances are, they won't that complicated. So, when you speak in way that is designed to create confusion, embed ideas and deliver commands, they won't have any idea what hit them. To them, it will feel like their brains just turned into pancake batter. If you are congruent, they won't know why, but they just forgot about what they were thinking of.

Life Long Skill

There are certainly many different levels of using these techniques. One is to simply memorize a few of these patterns and use them at parties and on your coworkers. But consider practicing these until you get to the point where you can create these on the fly. Where you can start off from any subject, go off on a tangent, that at first seems normal, but soon has your listeners jumping up and down and flapping their arms like a chicken (or doing or thinking whatever you'd like them to think). This will require a lot of practice. Consider these skills like you would martial arts, or a foreign language. You could memorize a few phrases or moves, but consider practicing these as a hobby in and of itself. While you may have gotten this guide to get a few laughs at parties or maybe make a few popular (and hopefully viral) videos for your channel, consider these techniques as versatile as language itself.

Sales

With sufficient skills with these patterns, you can make a lot of money. The ideas to embed are simple. Your product or service is the most valuable of its kind. The commands are equally as simple. Buy now. Sign here. Take this home. What would it be like to have a sales career so lucrative you can hire yourself out as a consultant, and work only when you feel like it?

Seduction

It goes without saying (but here we are saying it) that these tools are very powerful for seduction, for men and women. Being able to talk your way into their brain means you can talk your way into their pants (or wallet or house, etc.)

Popularity

One thing that will happen when you speak in only slightly vague language is people will spend a lot more brainpower on what you really meant. Most people talk in linear terms, so it's easy to pay attention with a minimum amount of brainpower. What usually happens at parties or social events is people are standing around taking turns talking, and while one person is talking, everybody is listening politely but simultaneously trying to think of something interesting to say when it's their turn to talk. When you use this technology, people will spend all their brainpower on you. This will make them believe that you are somehow much more entertaining or interesting or more something than anybody else, but they won't quite be able to put their finger on it. They'll also notice that whenever you talk, they aren't the only ones dedicating all their brainpower to you. Everybody else is as well. This will trigger both authority and social proof. With just a little bit of skill with these, you'll be the most popular person at every party.

Career

If you practice these enough, you'll be able to talk your way into any job. Even if you aren't exactly qualified, the person talking to you won't want to let you pass by. They'll figure out some way to use you. Now that you've got the linguistic tools to slip ideas and commands into the interviewer's mind, nobody else will stand a chance.

Make Life a Playground

Any time you have an opportunity exchange a few words with somebody, consider dropping in a few punctuation ambiguities. For example, consider the following next time you order coffee:

I think today I'll have a black coffee grounds are hard to sweep upstairs my neighbor is always brewing fresh coffee smells really good today I think I'll have a black coffee, large, please.

Whoever it is will stare at you, a little confused, and you just repeat black coffee. You can try this on every person you order coffee from, just to enjoy the expression on their face. You can work in teams with a friend. Before you go in, play a quick game of "rock-scissors-paper" to see who gets to deliver the line. Whoever delivers the line will go first, and the second person can go next, and report how long the lingering confusion lasts.

Men in Black

In the first Men in Black movie, they had a device that wiped the memory of subjects, so they wouldn't remember any advanced alien technology. You now have such a device, and that is comprised of your linguistic skills and your verbal and non-verbal communication. Make it a point to do something every day to further enhance your skills. Once you see how powerful these are, and how fun they are, the sky will be the limit. The world will be your playground, and you'll never be bored again. Not sure how to get started? We'll cover some basic practice ideas in our next and final chapter. (Hey, wait a minute, do you mean we'll cover practice techniques in the next chapter, and then we'll cover them again in the final chapter, or is the next chapter the same as the final chapter?)

How to Practice

To make the fastest progress with these, practice these like you would a foreign language. (Wait, you mean like time flies like an arrow?). Practice speaking, and practice writing. Start with one simple pattern, and practice speaking it and practice writing it. Think of speaking it in two different ways. Practicing by yourself and practicing with other people. When you practice speaking by yourself (in the car, for example) you can get crazy and silly. When practicing with other people, try with the bare minimum amount. When using these on other people, go as slow as you can. Think of this like exercise. Many people are tempted to do too much too fast. Then they burn out, get discouraged, and quit. Then a few months go by, their guilt builds up, and they start off again, but the same cycle repeats. The start off too much too fast, get burned out, and quit. The same happens with dieting. It's the yo-yo diet syndrome. They try to lose too much, too soon, it gets unbearable, and they quit. Then they go a few months and repeat the cycle. Most people never lose weight or gain any significant muscle for the very simple reason that they start off too fast. It's the very same process with any kind of self-development, even learning an instrument or a technical skill like Photoshop or any other software. Just remember the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, a story that is just as true today as it was thousands of years ago. Starting slow, and proceeding slowly is much better. If you start too quickly, this is what will happen. You will try too many patterns in one conversation. You'll be nervous and people will notice. You'll feel embarrassed and not try again. Then you'll come up with a story like, "These patterns don't really work. They're good for jokes, though." Please don't make that mistake. Keep the level of your patterns beneath your level of congruence. Always be keep your ability to deliver these with congruence higher than the actual level of patterns. For example, consider the simple coffee example from the previous chapter. Try that five or six times in five or six coffee shops you've never been to, and you will never go to again. Keep trying them until you get a blank stare, followed by a black coffee. The goal is to speak hypnotically, and do so with so much congruence the other person thinks they've made a brain error. Once you get to that level, you are on your way.

Training Wheels

Referential Index

Start with simple Referential Index stories. Stories where you mention a few people, and then use a lot of pronouns in a confusing way. This is a common "mistake" people make, so consider it as "street hypnosis training wheels." Once you see people will do their best to follow along, even though they clearly have no idea what you are saying, you can expand the length.

Presupposed Ideas

Another way to build confidence is to use the Linguistic Presuppositions but with ideas that you are pretty sure people will accept. For example, you might use the "What is X about Y is..." with something simple like the weather. "What is fantastic about rainy days is it helps farmers grow their food." Once you get practice using that pattern consciously, start to play around with slightly crazier ideas.

What is amazing about alien intelligence is that among the pieces of evidence they've already discovered, none of them seem to have any negative plans for the human race.

Commands

Similarly, you can use commands you know people will accept. Simply quote a believable person talking about finance.

This guy said that when you make money, it's easy to make more money, because money skills tend to accumulate over time.

Anchors and Self Points

Anchors can be a powerful weapon. They are easy, few people use them consciously, and you can use them with any "good idea." Get into the habit of using these any time you can. You'll find the hardest part of using these is just remembering to use them.

This guy (SP) said that when you make money (R), it's easy to make more money (R), because money skills tend to accumulate over time.

Hypnosis Journal

Keep a journal of everything you try, and whatever happens. One of the ways to use journaling effectively is to reprogram in new memories that are based on events that have happened. For example, you may have planned to use the Black Coffee Pattern but chickened out at the last minute. That is normal and totally fine. Later that night, write that in your journal, and then build in a new memory of you actually using the pattern. Imagine the best possible response from the barista. Then play the memory a few times in your mind. If you do this on a daily basis, you can accelerate your progress.

Fractionation - The Holy Grail

In many seduction communities, fractionation is some mysterious super power that nobody seems to understand, yet is the secret to unlocking any girl’s panties. In actuality, fractionation is fairly simple. It all started when a hypnotist realized that on successive visits, his clients become more and more hypnotized. So, he tried to repeat the same process within one session. Where he normally hypnotized them for an hour, he would hypnotize them and then bring them back out several times during that hour. And each time they went back under, they went deeper. So, by breaking up a one, one-hour session of hypnosis into several smaller sessions, he "invented" fractionation. This happens normally to us all the time. When we watch a TV show in a series, we automatically go deeper into that "TV trance," whereas when we watch a brand-new TV show, it takes us a while to "get into" the TV show. How do you use fractionation along with these techniques? The same way the original hypnotist used them. Talk normally, then use few patterns, then talk normally again. Every time you go back to "pattern talk" they'll go deeper, and their brains will turn off more. However, this requires one very crucial skill, one you should set a strong goal to achieve. And that is to speak normally, speak hypnotically, and then speak normally as if nothing happened. The Black Coffee Pattern is like a mini hypnosis sandwich. It starts off with black coffee, then a few punctuation ambiguities, and then finishes on black coffee. Consider your first goal is to come up with three similar sandwiches (normal sentence, 2-3 punctuation ambiguities, normal sentence) and use them in a conversation. When you can use three basic hypnotic sandwiches in one conversation, you will have achieved fractionation.

Think of fractionation as your first profit from a small business. Most businesses lose money before they make money. But as soon as they make money, they only thing they need to do is scale up. They've finally found a winning formula. They've spend some money on raw materials, and made something with those raw materials. Then they can sell the product for more money than the cost of the raw materials used to make the product. Ten bucks for a loaf of bread and peanut butter, and twenty bucks from selling peanut butter sandwiches. That is the definition of profit. Once they find the right combination, it's just a matter of scaling up. Slowly grow your peanut butter sandwich business to where you are selling millions of peanut butter sandwiches every day.

When you achieve your first "fractionation event" consider that as Street Hypnosis Profit. Once you can do that, it's just a matter of scaling up. Increasing the middle of the sandwich, and increase the number of sandwiches you can stack on top of one another, until you are capable of keeping entire rooms spellbound and in the palm of your hands. When you can do that, the world will be yours.

Appendix

Secret Weapon

Consider this your special unadvertised secret weapon. This one technique, done daily, will accelerate all your skills, or at least the skills that have anything to do with thinking and talking, which, for most people, is pretty much everything. If you are a super gorgeous model and you already get paid billions of dollars just standing there while people take your picture, you can skip this chapter.

Image Streaming

This one technique is very simple, and very powerful. Plenty of people know about it, but few people do it. Perhaps it seems so simple they discount it. Perhaps they do it a few times, but then they don't notice anything different. The magic lies in doing it consistently, every day, until you pass on into the next realm. Doing this consistently (along with the practice ideas laid out in the previous chapter) can literally (yes, literally, not figuratively or metaphorically) make you the greatest street hypnotist who ever lived. But you've got to do the daily practice.

How to Do It

Close your eyes, and describe what you see. It's that simple. But you need to follow a few iron clad rules, or instead of building up your intelligence and speaking ability, you'll be practicing your mumbling ability. Don't do that (unless your angle is to be the mumbling homeless guy in all the movies). The first rule is that you must speak as quickly as you can. The second rule is you must speak as specifically as you can. The more specific you describe your "image stream" the better this will work. The third rule is you must let the images change on their own. Don't try to hold them or force them. That's it. At first, you might not see anything, so describe the darkness. Yes, actually describe, out loud, the darkness or nothingness you see when you close your eyes. This will not be easy. You will come up with a million reasons to quit. But if you do keep this up, soon you'll be turn into a world class street hypnotizing fractionator, capable of stopping people in their tracks and building up huge fantasies in their minds.

How It Works

Spoken language comes from one half of our brains, and internally generated images (the kind you see with your eyes closed) come from the other half. So, when you close your eyes, and are using one half to describe what it going on in the other half, you will be creating new physical neural connections between your two brain hemispheres. This will make you a much better speaker, a much better thinker, and a much better visualizer. You'll also be building the skill of speaking of imaginary things with precision and clarity, which is exactly what a good street hypnotist does.

How Often?

At first, you may be hard pressed to do a minute. You will feel like your mouth is made up of concrete. But push yourself. Consider a goal of getting up to five minutes a day, every day. Once you can close your eyes for five minutes and describe what you see in rapid specific language, keep doing that every day, for the rest of your life. The more you do this, the better you'll get at speaking, thinking, and visualizing. It really is that simple.

Further Study

If you’d like to further accelerate your skills in being a mesmerizing and entertaining street hypnotist, consider the full course, which includes over twenty hours of powerful subliminal programming to build in the inner beliefs and confidence to take your skills to the next leve.

Street Hypnosis – Full Course

Other Mind Persuasion Courses

Contact

Web:mindpersuasion.com

Forum:mindpersuasion.net

Email:mailto:support@mindpersuasion.com

Mind Persuasion Kindle Books

Money Brain

Party Hero

Long Game

Deep Mind Persuasion

Verbal Assassin

Self Help Fail

Conversational Brilliance

Why Goal Setting Sucks

Attractive Personality

Walk Away

People Training

Pre Framing

Hypnotic Copywriting

Cold Reading

Deep Skills

Sell Anything to Anybody

Money Instinct

Relationship Engineering

Hero’s Journey

Public Speaking Hypnosis

Party Hypnosis

Communication Magic

Presence

Guru Trap

Hallucinating Mind

Tongue Fu

Beta Male Syndrome

Sugar Baby Hypnosis

NLP Mind Magic

Ego Taming

Weaponized Hypnosis

Wealth Tuning

Love Hypnosis

Seven Laws of Power

Secret Agent Persuasion

Sex Transmutation

Cult Leader

Zero Fear Game

Street Hypnosis

Entrepreneurial Mind

Hypnotic Love Spells

Stop Manipulation

Hypnotic Sales Scripts

Hypnotic Seduction

Super Learning

Hypnotic Storytelling

End Self Sabotage

Lazy Way Persuasion

Manifest Men

Manifest Women

Maximum Social Confidence

Objection Destruction

Mind Triggers

Covert Hypnosis

Charisma Generator

Law of Attraction

Natural Influence

Intelligence Accelerator

Frame Control

Girlfriend Generator

Emotional Freedom

Mental Alchemy

Money Love

Fearless

Interpersonal Resonance