It’s difficult writing about magic tricks when you don’t know the method.
You can talk about the theatrics or the presentation or wow factor but the value of a trick issue outside of the performer and their script and style, you really don’t know much about the mechanics. At best, you can try to infer elements about it from the performances to figure out it’s limitations and features.
So I’m going to say right now: I do not know exactly how or why hypnosis works.
But after seeing a number of hypnotists I have a pretty good idea of what’s going on, and what’s going on is not a million miles away from the plot of the Black Mirror episode “Shut Up and Dance”
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or You are feeling very sleepy”