Hypnosis beside from being used as a tool for treatment of certain ailments, which requires behavioral changes, has also been used for entertainment. When it is used for entertainment, it is called a hypnosis show. The effect of hypnosis show is not lasting. It actually last until the show is over.

While performing hypnosis in front of a large number of people it is important that the hypnotist chooses his topic wisely. He has to be extremely careful about picking up people from the audience to put in a trance. Once the person is in a trace, the hypnotist can plant any idea or suggestions in the mind o the said person.

As in all hypnosis cases, total coordination and cooperation from the volunteer is required in order for the hypnotist to be able to put the volunteer under a trance successfully. For him to selected suitable volunteers, the hypnotist uses a process call induction. During this process, the hypnotist, tell the audiences to close their eyes and listen to his command. By doing so, he will be able to see who is cooperative or not.

Members of the audiences who are not susceptible to the Hypnotist commands will be alert within the audiences. From this, the hypnotist will not select those who are resistant to his commands as volunteers.

When the hypnotist calls the willing volunteers onto the stage, this is when the actual show starts. One technique, which the hypnotist employs while calling upon the volunteers onto the stage, is to put a smaller number of chairs than participants on the stage. By doing so, this will create a competition among the volunteers.

The hypnotist then commands the volunteers to perform in various ways and they obey all his command as if they arte in a state of sleep. The hypnotist can make them believe that they are drunk. He can make them believe that they are aliens from another world and can thus only speak a strange language. The volunteers actually start speaking a strange language hearing this command. The volunteers come out pf the trance as soon as the performance is over, they do not stay in the same state of mind after the show and behave absolutely normally.