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Strangely enough, I don't remember. I once got chatting to another stage hypnotist at a New Years Eve party and learned a few things:

1. It only works if you are willing to be hypnotised.
2. You cannot be hypnotised into doing something against your character (so no, you can't hypnotise women into sleeping with you UNLESS they were already willing to.)
3. Some people are far more susceptible than others.
4. Only about 10% of those who volunteer are susceptible enough.
5. As the hypnotist is performing his act on the volunteers on stage, members of the audience will sporadically fall into a trance (very funny when it happens to someone next to you who has a glass of beer halfway to his mouth at the time).
6. The hypnotist tries to create the altered state in the volunteers by talking quickly in a monotone but at the same time tries to distract them - the hypnotist I was chatting to did this by repeatedly alternating between telling the volunteers all the usual things you expect a hypnotist to say (you are feeling sleepy/falling into a trance/will obey only my voice etc) and counting from one to ten very quickly but missing out the number seven.

If you get the chance to see a stage hypnotist, do it - it's very entertaining and utterly hilarious if your friends are on stage making idiots of themselves