Mohit Rao. Pic/Datta Kumbhar

Hopelessly curious about hypnosis, it's only media-fed visuals and unsubstantiated stories of people being mysteriously transformed into mindless pawns, that's kept us away from giving it a shot. But recently, curiosity won the battle when we learnt of homegrown mentalist Mohit Rao's almost-paranormal abilities — to hypnotize over 25,000 people, including an entire local train, predicting BSE Sensex live before the closing to the last decimal (he has now been prohibited from trading at the BSE).