I am an experienced hypnotist and have got people to do all sorts of things they would not normally do - like eat onions and believe they were juicy apples, or men kiss a girl they normally would not kiss under any circumstances.
I like to put a person in a deep trance for several hours and thoroughly examine their belief systems, before deciding in consultation with them, what they would like to experience.
It is not a good idea to get a person to do something against their beliefs/values, because it is morally wrong, and in some situations could backfire on you, and involve a visit to the Police station.
Derren Brown in the UK, got highly respected people to rob a bank at gunpoint, to prove that anyone can be hypnotised. They were horrified when woken up, that they had done such a despicable crime.
Under hypnosis a person can be told that they need to have a bath and no one is around to see them naked, and they will take off their clothes and hop into an imaginery bath and turn on taps that are not there. They can be told to put on special glasses and they will see a naked audience. Their mind thinks it is all real, so the body simply carries out what it is told to do.
Hypnotists have told a person that a biro they were holding was a red hot poker, and when it touched their arm, the arm swelled up as nsaty red welts, like it would if a real hot poker touched their arm. Then instructions were reversed and the arm went down again.
Operations, you won't feel a thing, and you can watch what is happening and not be scared or faint like you normally would if you see blood.
A lot of food allergies are caused by the brain misinterpreting a food, and thinking it is very dangerous to their body - so a violent reaction occurs. Arthritis (an ato-immune disease) is a misinterpretation, and the body thinks it is under attack and creates painful joints as a mis-guided defence of confusion. In heat stroke, the mind is confused and switches off blood flow to the skin and the body gets hotter and self-destructs towards death.
When the conscious mind is put to sleep or distracted, it is easy to get the subconscious mind to do EXACTLY AS IT IS TOLD - because it does not know what is true or false as it can't reason out things like the conscious mind can. It just stores information like a library.
(animals don't have a conscious mind to think, so they just react from habit/experience/harmonics of the rotating Earth)
The subconscious mind can be programmed to accept permanent change over several months, using brain entrainment technology which burns new neural messages into the brain.
A wife who is scared to take a lover, has to have her brain seeded with new reasons as to why a lover can give her more fun and pleasure in life. Often she feels she has permission, because her friends confide in her that they have secret lovers, and she is all ears to see whey they do it.
Hypnotism works best in the state of alpha, when the brain is slowed right down to 8-12cycles per second and the eyes are closed. This shuts down most of the distractions of the beta speed of the world.
You can't fall asleep at night if your brain has not showed down to 5 cycles a second. In deep sleep the brain slows down to less than one cycle a second.
Bi-polar sufferers can sometimes go days without sleep, because the brain won't slow down enough. Paranoia, when you think people are talking about you, is usually at a brain speed of 60-120 cycles a second, as the brain is rigidly focused and racing furiously, overloaded with information that gets mixed up.
All hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis, you have to allow yourself to go into a day-dreaming trance by relaxing, as you just follow the suggestions given to you by the hypnotist.
Most people go into hypnotic state when absorbed with a book or watching television. TV is designed to hypnotise you to accept advertising material or different view points to what you currently hold - and it works over time.