HOW TO HYPNOTIZE PEOPLE REALLY FAST ON THE INTERNET
A DOCUMENT OF MY OPINIONS
Authors:
* Nyeogmi (ideas, wrote most of the stuff)
* demoneyees (notes, ideas, editing)
* Vylraz (ideas, editing, some text)
0. Notes
For reasons of brevity, I've written this document in the second person. "I" is the subject and "you" is the hypnotist.
This document is written in my framework. I try to mark cases where I deviate from common knowledge/terminology, but since this entire document consists of my opinions and most of my evidence is anecdotal, you should watch yourself.
I. Structure of a hypnosis scene
A hypnosis scene consists of pretalk, induction, trance, and an awakener. Those are the names of the parts.
(Nominally, these are separate parts, but if you're an experienced hypnotist with a familiar subject, it's pretty common to skip the pretalk and induction.)
In the pretalk, you make small talk and converse with me on "here's what we're going to do in the scene." The quiet purpose for you is usually to establish "we're on the same side" and "if you're worried, you can be worried now, rather than during the scene itself."
Skipping pretalk is OK if you already know what I'm comfortable with and I'm already OK with being hypnotized. But if you guess wrong, that's abuse, so be careful.
In the induction, you move me from "awake" to "in trance." At this point, it becomes inappropriate for you to ask me to do more activities than I already agreed to. (because my judgment is now compromised)
In the trance, you make lots of suggestions about what I'll do, feel, and believe. I respond to them automatically. You can have a lot of fun with me this way!
In the awakener, you return me to normal. You suggest that I won't be following any suggestions from the session, unless I asked you to leave me with some.
II. Inviolable rules
Here are some inviolable rules of KINKY HYPNOSIS.
If you violate them, you're an abuser.
* Never attempt to hypnotize me without prior consent.
* Don't suggest any "out of session" things unless I specifically agreed to them outside of trance.
* In particular, unless I ask, don't have me:
* Permanently change in any way.
* Lose memory of the session.
* Send you pictures of myself.
* Refer to you on social media. (in my profile or in posts)
* Lose the ability to come.
* Lose the ability to go into trance.
* Crave further play with you.
* Believe you're my master or my owner.
* Hold any triggerphrases, even "cute" ones.
* Don't tell me I'm bad, wrong, or shameful, unless I explicitly asked for that.
* Wake me immediately if I ask you to.
* If a suggestion makes me uncomfortable, tell me I don't have to do it.
Most subjects will wake in response to violations of these rules, but even if you were to get away with them, you would be being a bad person.
Here's some general good advice. You may be able to flout it with experience, but chances are, if you're not following it, you will cause problems and may hurt someone:
* Make sure you and I are both hydrated.
* Don't hypnotize me in front of people who didn't agree to see that.
* Don't become my owner or master unless you have time for me.
* Harems are bad.
* Figure out exactly what I want:
* Specific acts such as memory play, emotion play, etc. Ask about them _individually_.
* If I have a time limit.
* If I'm worried about being interrupted.
* If I have noise concerns.
* When you wake me up, clear out the suggestions you gave me.
* You can memorize a sentence like this one, which I use. "In a moment I'm going to tell you to wake for real, and when I do that, you won't be holding any of my suggestions, and you'll be able to respond to me like I never hypnotized you."
* The ritual's not important; getting all the parts is.
* If you want someone to hold onto a suggestion, say "except" and list it explicitly. Everything else should always be removed.
* Especially after intense play: after waking me up, don't leave until I'm feeling good and you're feeling good.
Remember that my judgment may be compromised immediately after waking. So, you shouldn't ask me to do additional things until fifteen minutes or so have passed.
Speak to me in a normal voice about waking-world things to wake me faster. Teasing or toying with me after the session resets this timer.
III. The induction
In the unhypnotized state, I experience internal objections that keep me from responding to suggestions. If you told me I was a bat, I'd probably think "no I'm not," or "that's stupid," and then I wouldn't think I was a bat. In the hypnotized state, I wouldn't experience that thought, so I'd think I was a bat.
The induction is the process that moves me to the hypnotized state.
(Some people won't experience those objections from their ordinary waking state. Those people can be treated as "always hypnotized" and you should be very careful with them. Other people quickly self-hypnotize when they hear something they recognize as a suggestion. With those people you can get by with a very simple induction, or just a mood-setting prelude.)
In an induction, you make a series of asks of me, usually moving from small ones to large ones. These asks are intended to ease my critical thoughts, usually by:
* Giving you an authoritative role, then telling me what to do and think. (authoritarian hypnosis)
* Having me do things that convince me "I'm definitely hypnotized!" which undercuts my internal criticism. (placebo)
* Using verbal tricks and rhetoric to undercut my objections so that your suggestions will stand. (fast talk)
* Having me do things I wouldn't normally do, so my ordinary thoughts won't come to mind. (permissive hypnosis, 1)
* Encouraging me to stop observing rules that aren't about my objections, with the side effect that rules leading to my objections won't be observed any more. (permissive hypnosis, 2)
* Encouraging me to enter states similar to dissociative states I've experienced in the past. (permissive hypnosis, 3)
Some people, after experiencing hypnosis, will lose some of their objections but not all of them. Those people might need more coaxing than others, or in the case of permissive hypnosis, they might need to be encouraged to stop observing specific kinds of rule.
In my personal framework, there are two internal mechanisms that object to suggestions. One is dedicated to conventional behavior and recognizing authority figures, so it responds well to the hypnotist being authoritative and also it responds well to the hypnotist encouraging the person to break away from their conventional behavior. A second mechanism is dedicated to rational thinking, and it gets stopped up by fast talk and the direct evidence you get from responding to placebo.
My main advice for getting better at inductions is to read a lot of people's hypnosis content (scripts, et cetera), then try to break it down based on:
* How long it is.
* What voice it's written in.
* Whether it uses devices like metaphor, analogy.
* Whether it can be done online. (voice, text)
* Whether the trance happens gradually or turns on a surprise.
* What activities it includes.
Doing this means you'll be able to take an arbitrary passage of hypnosis script and be able to recognize common activities, but distinguish them by the other features. You'll likely notice, for instance, that almost all fast inductions share similar patter.
You'll likely notice too that a lot of hypnosis scripts include long passages of poetic-looking text with no obvious purpose. Why? I don't know! If you find out, tell me. I theorize it's there to impress the hypnotist. (A friend of mine says he goes into "autopilot" when exposed to this stuff and it has a similar effect to relaxing imagery.)
Working from scripts is fine, incidentally, but most people never have to work from them, and folks who do will lose their dependence on scripts pretty fast if they challenge themselves.
If your goal is to see hypnosis done well from a technical standpoint, I don't recommend ever paying money for hypnosis scripts. I've done this once (for Terry Watts' CRUCIAL) and the content was significantly worse in quality than the average stuff you find online. Most hypnosis books include some scripts and on average there's really not much to write home about, once you understand the activities -- it's all pretty impersonal and workmanlike.
IV. Trance (and stuff to make it better)
If I'm able to accept suggestions that I used to object to automatically, I'm in trance.
Generally, if I'm in trance and you tell me something is true, I'll believe it. If you tell me to do something, I'll do it. You can influence my feelings by telling me what I'm going to feel like. You can suggest whatever you'd like, and if you can describe it in language, most of it will become true for me.
I'm aware of what's going on and will usually wake myself up if you suggest something I wouldn't like. However, you shouldn't rely on that and you should always make sure _before_ hypnotizing me that you know what I'm OK with.
If I've gone into trance, you might find that there are some suggestions I'm not receptive to. Becoming more receptive to suggestions is called "going deeper."
Depth is a purely subjective thing; there's no reliable way of determining depth and, while some people will reject some suggestions, there are no strictly "easy" or "hard" suggestions. People who are deeper in trance feel less restrained and they respond to a greater range of suggestions.
(I personally think "depth" is a useful concept if you use dissociation as a main tool to do hypnosis, but it's less useful for people who rely on tools like placebo. Despite that, I recommend doing fractionation with basically ever