Chicken hypnosis
With chicken hypnosis , a domestic chicken can be hypnotized or put into a trance by pressing its head to the floor and using a stick or finger to draw a line along the floor starting at the beak and extending outward just in front of the chicken. When hypnotized in this way, the chicken will remain immobile for between 15 seconds and 30 minutes and continue to stare at the line. Ethologists refer to this condition as tonic immobility ("paralysis"), which is a natural state of semi-paralysis that some animals enter when confronted with a threat. This is likely a defense mechanism designed to fake death, albeit inadequately.
The first known written mention of this method was in 1646 in Mirabele Experimentum de Imaginatione Gallinae by Athanasius Kircher in Rome .
Methods
A hypnosis technique is to hold the chicken with face up, with his back on the floor, and then the finger down from the wattles to lead the chicken to just above its slot. The chicken feet are thus exposed, which allows for easy application of medicines for foot mites, etc. Clapping hands or a gentle push on the chicken will wake it up.
You can also hypnotize a chicken by mimicking how it sleeps with its head under its wings. In this method, you hold the bird, put its head under its wings, gently rock the chicken back and forth and very carefully place it on the ground. It should stay in the same position for about 30 seconds. HB Gibson claimed in his book Hypnosis - its Nature and Therapeutic Uses that the record time for a chicken to remain under hypnosis is 3 hours and 47 minutes.
Notable people who discussed chicken hypnosis
- Helmut Kohl , former German Chancellor: Kohl's preferred method seems to be similar to Werner Herzog's, he used “a line drawn with chalk”. ( Stern , September 13, 1996)
- Al Gore , Former Vice President of the United States : Gore's technique was to draw circles around the chicken's head.
- Werner Herzog , a German producer , actor, and writer : Herzog is known for hypnotizing chickens. He also hypnotized the actors in his 1976 film Heart of Glass .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gordon G. Gallup Jr., RF Nash, RJ Potter, NH Donegan: Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology . Effect of varying conditions of fear on immobility reactions in domestic chickens (Gallus gullus). 1970, p. 442-445 .
- ^ Gordon G. Gallup Jr .: Tonic immobility as a measure of fear in the domestic fowl. Animal Behavior . 1979, p. 316-317 .
- ↑ B. Jones, JM Faure: Tonic immobility ("righting time") in laying hens housed in cages and pens. Applied Animal Ethology 7 . 1981, p. 369-372 .
- ↑ Jack D. Maser, Gordon G. Gallup Jr .: Tonic Immobility in the Chicken: Catalepsy Potentiation by Uncontrollable Shock and Alleviation by Imipramine. In: psychosomaticmedicine.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Experimental Animal Hypnosis. In: hypnoticworld.com. Accessed April 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Jokinen: Like Hypnotized Chickens . Random House Canada, July 10, 2013.