A Great Week of Hypnosis

This has been an incredible week. I've finally had a taste of the longer one-on-one hypnosis play sessions I've been craving, and it has been so gratifying. Really getting to know how someone responds, and what they like, is a powerful experience that is teaching me at an accelerated rate, especially with getting such wonderful, insightful feedback. The term "play partner" bugged me when I first got into the kink scene, but it's a useful one, for people that you are genuinely building a relationship with, although one with only very loose commitment on both sides. This is a third place, between brief trances with new partners at workshops and parties on the hand and a committed long term relationship with hypnosis in it on the other, and it's working for me now. I had an excellent discussion about such relationships with two popular Boston rope tops, which helped to set my head on straight.

I'm having a weird feeling of disconnection, that I guess everyone who gets the opportunity to dive into their kink gets. This thing that is occupying so much of my brain and time, and where I'm really excited about my growth and new experiences, is something I can't talk to 90% of the people in my life about. There's a giant redacted paragraph in the middle of my for-public-consumption life. But when I think about it, I'm sure that's true in general for plenty of people, if not the majority.

I've realized there are a lot of obstacles to posting detailed scene accounts, even though I have permission, but I wanted to mention a few interesting and/or hot things that came up this week:

• The sight of someone struggling against a trance trigger, and failing, is everything this hypnofetishist dreamed of. [to be clear, in these cases the trancee really wanted to go under again, and it was my request that she try to resist it, which she wasn't so happy to do.]
• Another thing I will never get tired of is the sound of women's voices while deeply in trance. Getting people to listen to how hypnotized their voices sound can be helpful in convincing them they're in a trance, and so relax into it.
• I got to try a number of tasty inductions and deepeners for the first time, including what Wiseguy calls Floating in Space, which creates a beautiful set of mental images for the visual trancee. This made me think about how there could be many more very poetic and vivid mental journeys trancees could be guided through, limited only by the hypnotist's imagination and understanding of their partner's imagination.
• One hypnotee said that she found the staircase deepener didn't work for her so well. Upon thinking about it, she realized it was because she had had an ankle injury for several years, and so stairs were associated with discomfort. So from then on I switched to a different deepener. A great example of the mental and physical diversity of hypnotees, and how important it is to have plenty of alternatives to turn to in your toolbox.
• A fun alternate take on hypnotic bondage was magnetic hands, that stuck to any nearby surface and could be turned on and off (I'm sure I stole this from somewhere). When one of my hypnotee's hands was stuck to her face, I pulled on her wrist and her head started to come with it!
• I was blown away at the hit rate for different types of suggestions, for which I credit the great aptitude of the partners I was working with. But in agreement with things I've read, eyes-open visual hallucinations seem to be really, really hard.
•  Right now I am deprioritizing flow, drama and masterfulness in favour of a very high standard of consent, particularly considering these are quite new relationships, and I'm still figuring out my approach to ethics. (as an example: I'm asking permission before almost every use of an induction trigger) Not to mention, flow, drama and masterfulness will take a ton more experience.
• Always impressed by how much it feels like I am truly in collaboration with my partner's subconscious, which often has plenty of ideas of its own. For example, I started to go to a blackboard deepener after a staircase deepener for one partner, and her subconscious spoke up, to my surprise: she said "there's no blackboard in the cellar!" She told me later she had clearly pictured a washer and dryer in there, but no blackboard! However when I told her to find a door in the cellar that led to a room with a blackboard, that satisfied her.