In a captivating demonstration, a hypnotist took a willing volunteer—one of the oldest and strongest 12th-graders in the school—and hypnotized him into thinking that he could not lift a glass of water. When the hypnotist then presented him with a glass of water and asked him to lift it, to the amazement of his fellow students, it would not budge.
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