answer:Yes, and it was amazing. I was a junior counselor at a summer boy’s camp. A senior counselor, a med student, hypnotized several of us. He hypnotized one kid and told him that his chair seat was getting hotter and hotter, and at one point the poor kid jumped up screaming and hopping around, much to our amusement. I was put to sleep and told that I had the strongest arm in the world. Outstretched, it was able to hold the weight of one of the campers without my feeling a thing. My eyes were open the whole time and I was totally conscious of everything that was going on. In my brain I knew I was being hypnotized, but still, I obeyed the “command.” Looking back, I realize the doctor should not have been practicing hypnotism on anybody (today, he’d probably be taken off to jail), but the experience taught me that hypnotism is absolutely real.