This week's CSI episode will feature hypnotism.

I was thrilled to come home on Sunday to find the first episode of a new season of CSI on my Tivo.  The drama from last season's finale was carrying over, and I was keen to see how it all wrapped up.  The episode was excellent, and at the end they showed the preview of next week's (that would be this week) episode.  My spirit sank as I watched the word "hypnosis" appear on the screen, followed a moment later by the words "mind control."  The preview gave the impression that a young lady is somehow convinced to jump out of a window through the power of hypnosis.  Sigh...

I'm going to hold off on any further comment until I've seen the episode, and then I'll blog on it Friday.  But I'm not optimistic :(

Comments

[Mike Reeves-McMillan]

There's a Colombo episode with exactly the same idea, though it was jumping off a balcony - the woman was hypnotized by her psychologist/lover to believe that she could dive safely into the pool several stories below.

Remotely possible with a very good subject, but highly unlikely.

[Paul Ramsay]

This is the kind of thing that people will remember, though. Fear-based impressions are always stronger than positive ones, and so we'll have to work twice as hard to allay the fears created from this one episode, if it does what I think it's going to do. Thanks for the comment, Mike.

[Dantalion Jones]

I'm so glad you didn't fight the fact this something like this COULD happen... granted with a lot of set-up, work and effort but it COULD happen. I explain how this is done in my book Mind Control Hypnosis.

Dantalion Jones