Most people imagine hypnosis as some sort of mind control.
Most people that are INTO mind control fetishes seem to think hypnosis is the best answer.
The truth is actually somewhere else entirely. Hypnosis, from what I've experienced has been a lot simpler than originally imagined. There really are two parts, focus, and trance, once you have both, you have Hypnosis.
Focus is what it sounds like, a person putting all of their attention on only one thing. The hypnotist in this case. To get people there all you have to do is say "pay attention to me", it's that simple, and of course some people comply and others look at you and ask why, the thing to remember is that as with everything if you want to get a person to do something, asking them to do it isnt always the best way.
The second part of Hypnosis is trance, and that's also fairly simple. In trance a person is put in a mental state where they stop thinking and just do things automatically. People enter into a trance all the time and dont even know about it; Watching TV, driving a familiar route, getting "in the zone" at work or doing some hobby are all trance, the key is the automatic reactions and lack of critical consideration on every step.
All together, Trance makes people react, and focus means people pay attention, when you put them together, you have hypnosis, the hypnotist suggests, and the subject acts. Its all very simple.
So what does all of this have to do with mind control? well, that's the part that gets turned off, or at least down when you're hypnotized. The part of your mind that thinks about things before doing, and that is paying attention to everything at once. Even when hypnotized, it's never completely shut down, and can be awakened by various things. The main one being forcing the subject to try and go against their own morals or fears.
So it comes down to this, Hypnosis works because the person hypnotized is deeply concentrated on the hypnotist, and in a state where commands are followed automatically. People who want to be mind controlled, enjoy this state and like accepting any suggestion regardless of it's nature... unless it steps over a mental boundary of some kind (phobia, moral objection) In short, hypnosis is not supernatural, entering hypnosis is almost entirely the subject's choice and remaining in it depends on basically what they are willing to do and feel comfortable with.
Some people can be convinced to do things they wouldn't always do while they are under, they CAN NOT be convinced to do things that they would NEVER do.
So, before and often during a session, the question to ask someone is "what do you want". If you'd like to keep someone in hypnosis, the key is to give them a ride they'd enjoy, to at the very least use what they like.Ask them what they're into, you can ask them what they think hypnosis is like, either way a good hypnotist always makes sure that the person going under knows what they are in for, even if it means they know they are in for a surprise.
Whether you're interested in being behind the swinging watch or in front of it I'd love to hear what else people would like me to talk about, so this is an official question for commenters.What do you want?
Happy Trancing.
- The Curious Hypnotist
Welcome to my first Blog Post!
So, hi. :-)
It's always strange doing the intro thing... even more so in this arena. I have to say, I'm a little intimidated!
Ok, so on some crazy website, I see this forum post regarding hypnosis, and I think "how intriguing"... I messaged Sharky because he seemed to have a clue what he was talking about, and didn't seem pushy. After some discussion, he offers to try putting me under via text. Obviously I agreed, and here I am now. ;-)
Since then(only a few weeks ago?) we've played with some text stuff, and some phone/voice. I've learned that I'm a feel-y kinda gal. Things that have a physical feeling to them seem to work nicely for me. And there's this lovely little afterglow I get after going under that is absolutely freakin' awesome. All tingly and champagne-bubbly, like Santa Claus is coming to town. Seriously.
Earlier I was trying to explain to someone the difference between the results via text and via phone/voice. Text has a much LIGHTER feeling to it, for me. Light, as in fluffy. Yes, I mean physically light. I had to correct this person when they assumed I meant light as in light vs. deep. Nooooo.. I mean actually, physically LIGHT, buoyant. Voice is a HEAVY feeling, like physical weight on me. It's like being in a hole, or slogging through mud. I don't know what other people experience, I'm just explaining what I'm feeling. I must warn you that I am obsessive about needing to explain how stuff feels - just ask Sharky! :-)
Anyway.. we've progressed into some of the more interesting aspects of hypnosis, which I generally refer to as "playing"(ie: it's fun, "can we play tonight", etc.). I'll try to share some thoughts on my view of things, as long as you can live with my obsessive need to *explain* how stuff feels. ;-)
-heather
It's always strange doing the intro thing... even more so in this arena. I have to say, I'm a little intimidated!
Ok, so on some crazy website, I see this forum post regarding hypnosis, and I think "how intriguing"... I messaged Sharky because he seemed to have a clue what he was talking about, and didn't seem pushy. After some discussion, he offers to try putting me under via text. Obviously I agreed, and here I am now. ;-)
Since then(only a few weeks ago?) we've played with some text stuff, and some phone/voice. I've learned that I'm a feel-y kinda gal. Things that have a physical feeling to them seem to work nicely for me. And there's this lovely little afterglow I get after going under that is absolutely freakin' awesome. All tingly and champagne-bubbly, like Santa Claus is coming to town. Seriously.
Earlier I was trying to explain to someone the difference between the results via text and via phone/voice. Text has a much LIGHTER feeling to it, for me. Light, as in fluffy. Yes, I mean physically light. I had to correct this person when they assumed I meant light as in light vs. deep. Nooooo.. I mean actually, physically LIGHT, buoyant. Voice is a HEAVY feeling, like physical weight on me. It's like being in a hole, or slogging through mud. I don't know what other people experience, I'm just explaining what I'm feeling. I must warn you that I am obsessive about needing to explain how stuff feels - just ask Sharky! :-)
Anyway.. we've progressed into some of the more interesting aspects of hypnosis, which I generally refer to as "playing"(ie: it's fun, "can we play tonight", etc.). I'll try to share some thoughts on my view of things, as long as you can live with my obsessive need to *explain* how stuff feels. ;-)
-heather
when minds attack 2: Sharky takes a vacation!
Sometimes real life interrupts, and sometimes I just end up losing interest, but now it's time to come back because frankly this is still fun, and I still like talking about this. So, without further ado, to the business at hand
so for all of you wondering where this curious hypnotist has been, well, hypnotizing of course! and I have a new little name there on the right to show for it, (to those unsure Heather is the new one)
Heather is one of my newest subjects, she is smart, kinesthetic (focused on physical sensations) and will be writing a few of her more interesting experiences from her own point of view over here in the blog.
She Contacted me, curious about the nature of the experience, and agreed to go under, this would be about 3 weeks ago, and since then I can say that she has had quite a bit of fun, and also learned quite a lot and experienced a lot more.
so one of the reasons I delayed so much talking about the second trance here is that I was hoping to get permission from my friend Coco to use her trance here. Now that I have it, here goes.
This trance was going to be one that's mostly just standard, Coco is a fellow "curious" very much into the subject but never having explored it, and I agreed to let her experience trance. This as usual started pretty simply, I used a fairly interesting text induction, and coco goes down fairly smoothly. The induction required quite a bit of typing on her side, (which lets me keep tabs on just how tired she is based on speed/typos).
Half way through however the reactions began to appear unusual, she complained of her hands locking up, and I let her stop typing as I went to a normal induction method. Again a few minutes pass and she goes deeper but begins to appear incoherent, right up until the point where I give her a re-entry trigger for trance... all hell breaks loose. She simply types "hello" and appears completely awake, but disoriented, and begins to tell me I am manipulating the situation, and other things like that. Now, if you've ever woken up someone from a strong dream you know the kind of reactions I was getting from her, something was going on in her mind and I had to gently lead her back to awakening...
At this point I could have quit and called it a day, but talking about the trance I got the impression that something was there under the surface. Something that every good hypnotist should learn is how to explore someone else's associations and mental imagery, and I gave that a try asking her and delving into what her subjective experience was. Now by this point I had known my friend here was very much stressed and had something on her mind, something she was blocking from the surface. What I found is that going into hypnosis often allows those thoughts that are suppressed to just rise to the surface, and while with some people that leads to less inhibition, in someone like Coco, it caused a lot of ideas that she wasn't thinking about before to bubble up and make her feel very disturbed...
before long though she asks to try again and go back into the trance, and I reluctantly agree, again starting with a simple induction, however mid-way through the second induction again, the reactions come out...
[23:11] sharky: and take another deep wonderful breath
[23:12] sharky: and sigh and feel your stomach and chest relax
[23:12] coconut: but what if there is something that occupies my mind
[23:12] coconut: ignore it?
[23:12] coconut: focus on breath
[23:12] sharky: and what is it that occupies your mind
[23:12] coconut: a person
things however only got more interesting from there, I begin to explore where these feelings are kinesthetically (where do you feel X, can you pinpoint it), as well as exploring it in time / experience...
[23:13] sharky: and can you look at this person ?
[23:13] coconut: yes
[23:14] coconut: im imagining him in front of me right now
[23:14] coconut: looking down on me
[23:14] sharky: and move away from him
[23:14] coconut: while im laying in the bed
[23:14] sharky: look at yourself now
[23:14] coconut: he got me trapped
[23:14] sharky: look at the both of you on the bed
[23:14] coconut: ok.
[23:14] coconut: he has my hands locked in the bed
[23:14] coconut: and i like that i resist
[23:15] coconut: im looking at yself
[23:15] coconut: and him
[23:15] coconut: from afar
[23:15] sharky: and is this a good image?
[23:15] coconut: it's an enjoyable image
I cant say that I've ever helped someone through a drug trip, but I would say that is what it would seem like. The key to my efforts is just trying to ask leading questions to maintain some sort of peace in her mind. Now my own observation is probably that this is some kind of repressed thoughts that bubble up as soon as she was too relaxed to repress it any longer, and the only thing I could do was either push it down even stronger, or try to pull it out into the open and find a way for the person to deal with it in a positive way.
what actually ended up happening by the end of the trance, was that Coco had worked through her issues regarding this event / person in her life, she had come to realize all the thoughts that were going on in the background and was able to deal with them more openly. This wasnt something I intended to do going in, but I was very glad to be able to help out.
The key idea I think, is to never bail out on somone who is in trance, when they are under for you, you are their guide, and it is the responsibility of the hypnotist to either lead them back out, or lead them through a trance. That at least is my view, and what I would like to go by.
Finally, to Liz, from Hypnofantastico, a happy birthday, another year closer to death!
so for all of you wondering where this curious hypnotist has been, well, hypnotizing of course! and I have a new little name there on the right to show for it, (to those unsure Heather is the new one)
Heather is one of my newest subjects, she is smart, kinesthetic (focused on physical sensations) and will be writing a few of her more interesting experiences from her own point of view over here in the blog.
She Contacted me, curious about the nature of the experience, and agreed to go under, this would be about 3 weeks ago, and since then I can say that she has had quite a bit of fun, and also learned quite a lot and experienced a lot more.
so one of the reasons I delayed so much talking about the second trance here is that I was hoping to get permission from my friend Coco to use her trance here. Now that I have it, here goes.
This trance was going to be one that's mostly just standard, Coco is a fellow "curious" very much into the subject but never having explored it, and I agreed to let her experience trance. This as usual started pretty simply, I used a fairly interesting text induction, and coco goes down fairly smoothly. The induction required quite a bit of typing on her side, (which lets me keep tabs on just how tired she is based on speed/typos).
Half way through however the reactions began to appear unusual, she complained of her hands locking up, and I let her stop typing as I went to a normal induction method. Again a few minutes pass and she goes deeper but begins to appear incoherent, right up until the point where I give her a re-entry trigger for trance... all hell breaks loose. She simply types "hello" and appears completely awake, but disoriented, and begins to tell me I am manipulating the situation, and other things like that. Now, if you've ever woken up someone from a strong dream you know the kind of reactions I was getting from her, something was going on in her mind and I had to gently lead her back to awakening...
At this point I could have quit and called it a day, but talking about the trance I got the impression that something was there under the surface. Something that every good hypnotist should learn is how to explore someone else's associations and mental imagery, and I gave that a try asking her and delving into what her subjective experience was. Now by this point I had known my friend here was very much stressed and had something on her mind, something she was blocking from the surface. What I found is that going into hypnosis often allows those thoughts that are suppressed to just rise to the surface, and while with some people that leads to less inhibition, in someone like Coco, it caused a lot of ideas that she wasn't thinking about before to bubble up and make her feel very disturbed...
before long though she asks to try again and go back into the trance, and I reluctantly agree, again starting with a simple induction, however mid-way through the second induction again, the reactions come out...
[23:11] sharky: and take another deep wonderful breath
[23:12] sharky: and sigh and feel your stomach and chest relax
[23:12] coconut: but what if there is something that occupies my mind
[23:12] coconut: ignore it?
[23:12] coconut: focus on breath
[23:12] sharky: and what is it that occupies your mind
[23:12] coconut: a person
things however only got more interesting from there, I begin to explore where these feelings are kinesthetically (where do you feel X, can you pinpoint it), as well as exploring it in time / experience...
[23:13] sharky: and can you look at this person ?
[23:13] coconut: yes
[23:14] coconut: im imagining him in front of me right now
[23:14] coconut: looking down on me
[23:14] sharky: and move away from him
[23:14] coconut: while im laying in the bed
[23:14] sharky: look at yourself now
[23:14] coconut: he got me trapped
[23:14] sharky: look at the both of you on the bed
[23:14] coconut: ok.
[23:14] coconut: he has my hands locked in the bed
[23:14] coconut: and i like that i resist
[23:15] coconut: im looking at yself
[23:15] coconut: and him
[23:15] coconut: from afar
[23:15] sharky: and is this a good image?
[23:15] coconut: it's an enjoyable image
I cant say that I've ever helped someone through a drug trip, but I would say that is what it would seem like. The key to my efforts is just trying to ask leading questions to maintain some sort of peace in her mind. Now my own observation is probably that this is some kind of repressed thoughts that bubble up as soon as she was too relaxed to repress it any longer, and the only thing I could do was either push it down even stronger, or try to pull it out into the open and find a way for the person to deal with it in a positive way.
what actually ended up happening by the end of the trance, was that Coco had worked through her issues regarding this event / person in her life, she had come to realize all the thoughts that were going on in the background and was able to deal with them more openly. This wasnt something I intended to do going in, but I was very glad to be able to help out.
The key idea I think, is to never bail out on somone who is in trance, when they are under for you, you are their guide, and it is the responsibility of the hypnotist to either lead them back out, or lead them through a trance. That at least is my view, and what I would like to go by.
Finally, to Liz, from Hypnofantastico, a happy birthday, another year closer to death!
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