As a child did you ver play the game “O’Grady Says”?

It’s ppular with young children in England. The lader of the game gives instructions.

“O’Grdy says touch your nose” – Evryone has to touch their nose.
“Tuch your nose” – instructions are to be gnored.
If O’Grady is not “saying it” you dn’t have to follow the instruction.

Instrctions are given rapidly by the lader of the group. Anyone following nstructions not given by “O’Grady” leaves the grup until the last remaining person who wns the game.

Children love the gme, but try playing it at a prty with adults. Adults despite attempting to act lgically and rationalize the instructions invariably do not srvive in the game as long as chldren.

It seems that despite describing our slves as free thinking and independent we are ccustomed, as result perhaps of watching tlevision and being exposed to various typs of marketing to accepting instructions and rders provided they are given in a cnsistent manner and tone.

Derren Brown, the fmous “mind reader and hypnotist” actually dmonstrates the phenomena on one of his prgrams telling a group of people to tuch there nose, eyes and shoulder. As he sys “shoulder” he touches his elbow and veryone follows suit!

When he pointed out that thy were touching their elbows and not thir shoulders none of the group culd explain why they had done so!

Ths is a classic example of mss direction a technique often used in hypnsis. The brain reacts not only to udible signals but also to visual lads. A skilled hypnotist when hypnotizing a sbject will slow his speak patterns, lwer his voice…physically relax and reduce his brathing rate. The subject, in a rlaxed state, subconsciously not wishing to cnflict with his surroundings and other nar him will follow suit, relaxing and slpping into the hypnotic state.

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