Mythbusters

Wednesday a new episode of mythbusters was on, this episode was about hypnosis and if you can blow out a candle using frequencies. A man back in the early 1900's claimed he could blow out a candle with the sound of his bird calls. The idea was that the waves with a low frequency will vibrate the air creating enough pressure to put the candle out. When trying this they couldn't do it they just couldn't get the frequency low enough and strong enough so they amplified it with a speaker and brought in a singer would could get it a little lower. They had done it successfully. Then the second myth was whether you can get someone to do something against there will when on hypnosis they successfully got Grant under hypnosis but he didn't follow those commands. Adam and Jamie wanted to join in on the myth so they tested whether you could remember more details about an event when under hypnosis then you could when not under hypnosis. They had to small time actors come in and play a scene with Jamie (Tori, Grant, and Kary were not aware of the joke) Jamie and the actor(posing as a delivery man) getting into an argument. After the scene they told them of the actors and gave them a test to see what they could remember all of them failed, then when under hypnosis they were able to remember key things from the scene. The Hypnosis myths are very important to society after testing the myth about can you remember things this could be applicable to real life such as crime solving. If there was a witness who saw something but there memory was fuzzy they could be put under hypnosis to describe more about the crime so I think thats really cool.