"Now, look into my eyes..."

Close to 400 students gathered at the Parkside dining hall on Wednesday nights to see, the self-proclaimed World’s Greatest Hypnotist Dave Hill.

Before the show started Hill made sure to play his own introduction, including a list of credentials, in order to prove his credibility.

The audience eagerly raised their hands to be part of the hypnosis comedy show, however only 20 were selected.

The show began with Hill claiming that he is the world’s fastest hypnotist and made a volunteer, Luis, fall asleep almost instantaneously. Luis, was found be very susceptible to hypnosis and soon become the star of the show.

The other 16 students were hypnotized in the show were made to perform ridiculous acts such as slapping their rear end like a Congo drum or were made to believe that they were riding a horse.

Some students, who were selected to be hypnotized at the beginning of the show, were not hypnotized and asked to leave the stage.

Freshman Natalie Pacheco was not able to get hypnotized.

“I was focusing really hard but I just didn’t believe the things he was saying. My eyes were closed but I could feel they wanted to open. I was waiting for the moment to go blank but it never happened. I didn’t know how it was supposed to feel, so I was confused.”

Hill responded saying that some students aren’t able to get hypnotized because they cannot focus or concentrate or they might be curious to see what the other students are being made to do.

Others were skeptical that the students were really hypnotized.

“I heard that people that wanted to ‘help out’ with the show should go early before the show started so I thought that it might be a scheme,” said Elisse Garcia, a freshman.

Hill has been a hypnotist for 25 years and studied under another hypnotist Gil Boyne. He decided to join the profession when he saw a hypnotist show when he was 24 years old. This was Hill’s second time visiting CSULB residents.