I've had similar experiences. The peer pressure as well to make someone "speak in tongues" is incredible actually. I myself have "spoken in tongues" and I can honestly say it is a load of drivel. "Just let it flow. Say anything that comes to mind. The spirit wants to work through you!" I "received" the Toronto blessing as well... Honestly the guy pushed me on the head along my center line while my eyes were closed. Yes, I fell, but it was nothing supernatural.
The problem comes in that these events which are nothing more than superstition and paranoia become so entrenched in the pillar's of people's subjective experience that rejecting them becomes to difficult. If someone were to reject their hypnotic experience that means they would have to reject the doctrine that comes with it. They just seem to have too much emotional investment in an experience to admit that they were fooled and went along with it.