Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Hypnosis Study Group: 100 Things To Do With Someone In a Trance

Nicely well attended study group today, even though we pulled it together at the last minute. I feel like this microcommunity within the kink community is gaining momentum, and that there's a real hunger here for learning and discussion and practice of erotic hypnosis. That's so exciting to me.

As one of the activities, I led a brainstorming session where as a group we tried to generate 100 ideas for hypnotic suggestions in as short a time as possible (in practice about 15 minutes). The rules were that there was no discussion of the ideas, and that I would write down anything to add to the list as displayed on the big screen tv, no matter how silly or weird, or even if they were repetitions of earlier ideas. At about the halfway point I even specifically asked for some unethical suggestions, to keep the creative energy high. So for that reason (that it could be accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted) I won't be posting the whole list. But here are some of my favourites, either because they sparked some thinking or just amused me:

10. Time travel

18. My magical ass

26. Modifying pleasure perception

30. One type of food into another

32. Modifying how you perceive fun

48. Singing on command

51. Converting someone to Jehovah's witness

56. Expanding erogenous zones

59. Tentacles

65. Imagine fucking every person when they meet them

68. Everyone in the room is speaking a different language

73. Fixation on David Bowie's crotch

77. Not see themselves in reflections

88. Mighty tantric carrot [?]

91. Incubus or succubus

99. Belief that you're a Star Trek character
 
(and one more that came up afterward: perceiving everyone around you as singing, as though you had stepped into the world of Once More With Feeling). I was really grateful that people got into the spirit of it, and felt my belief in brainstorming reaffirmed: that by generating a large volume of ideas, without regard for practicality, appropriateness or any other constraints, neat things are bound to come out, including a few ideas that perhaps no member of the group could have reached on their own.

More things that I got out of the meeting: Advice from PhotoJoseph that to install a post-hypnotic trigger, it's best to give people the effect of the trigger strongly in trance, and only then associate it with the trigger condition that will be used out of trance. New sensory associations usually accompany the real sensations, rather than replacing them (e.g. celery tastes like foie gras - still get all the celery sensations, with a foie gras overlay). It might work to suggest to someone that they have a particular dream, and that some of the group's members have had good effects from suggestions that they would wake up in the morning fresh and energized - two uses of hypnosis I had not considered.

The meeting got pretty chatty, and could have used more structure, but I think we did a great job of pulling together a worthwhile session despite both our first choice and our backup choice for presenter cancelling. And it's always great to spend time with fellow hypno fans.

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