I recently had a chance to combine hypnosis with rope bondage, and it went great. I was spending the afternoon with a few friends in a casual, kink-friendly setting, and I was talking with the couple that was there, who are in a D/s relationship that involves a certain amount of rope. They also enjoy hypnosis, and we decided to do a scene where I would be co-topping with the dom: I with the hypnosis, and the dom with the rope.
First, I hypnotized the sub, using the wonderful kinaesthetic induction I learned at Deepmind Darkwood. Then I gave her a post-hypnotic suggestion that she would sink into trance as her dom tied her up: the more rope she felt on her body, the more entranced she would become.
It took quite a bit of discussion to decide on the tie, a simple rope harness with arms in front, since it had to be something that she could let her body go limp in and stay safe - besides falling over, there was the risk for cutting off circulation or other such rope problems, which a hypnotized person might not be as good at noticing or reporting on (this is probably the biggest hurdle for combining hypnosis and rope).
It was a real treat to watch the sub close her eyes and slump as her dom sensuously pulled the rope around her, while kneeling behind. Then when the tie was done, they told her to open her eyes and stand up, and she had a deliciously sleepy stare. We brought her up quickly after that, because we were eager to hear about the experience. She said that one of the most pleasurable aspects, that helped her to go into trance, was the vibration of the hemp rope sliding against itself. If there was anything that was different than I envisioned, it was that she went into trance almost immediately when the rope first touched her (she confirmed that the rest of the tying had only deepened her a little) - but this is just a testament to this person's talent for going into trance.
I'm eager to explore the combination of rope bondage and hypnosis further, since rope bondage is extremely popular in my subcommunity in Boston. So this is a way that I can combine my favourite type of play with a type of play people already know they like. Also, my rope skills probably won't go far beyond the low plateau they are at now, but they can be more interesting with hypnotic enhancement. Plus it felt like a natural and low-key way to participate in a scene between two other people, e.g. a skilled rope top and their partner, with me also getting my hypno kicks.
There are plenty of different possibilities for combining them. At the hypno munch on Saturday, @PhotoJoseph told us about his favourite approach, not so different from what I did, in that he uses a tie as an induction. He links tying a single column tie on someone's wrist to going into trance, and then simply ties and unties it, creating a deeper trance via a process of fractionation. There's a powerful overlap between "rope space" and trance (not to mention subspace), although I certainly don't know enough about it to explain exactly what. The bottom from the scene I described above said that she experiences something not unlike trance when she comes into any contage with bondage rope.
There is also rope bondage that is purely in the mind, which has given me excellent results. People who are used to being tied up are often good at reproducing those sensations, and also the feeling of helplessness. Wiseguy has a good script for that in Mind Play. One of the nice things about it is that price or availability is no object when it comes to the material: silk, coconut, gold chains, etc. In fact it doesn't have to be cords either, since in the realm of hypnosis someone can just as easily be restrained by magnets, superglue, teams of keebler elves, or anything else you can imagine. However for people who love the feel of rope, nothing can compare, and even someone with limited rope skills can have fun tracing lines of rope all over someone's body with their finger, perhaps pressing to indicate where a knot is placed.
It should also be possible to modify the way real rope feels with suggestions: make it warm up, make it tingle, make it pulsate.
I think it would be too dangerous to put someone who was in a rope suspension into a trance, for more than a few seconds anyway. However, suspensions are huge in my friend group, so I'm going to keep thinking about other ways it could be enhanced or evoked with hypnosis.
Finally, one idea I had is that it might be weird and funny to hypnotize someone to believe they weren't tied up. When it's pointed out that they can't move their arms, they might insist they just don't want to at the moment, or are too tired. A variation would be to forget they've been tied, and gradually realize all their movement restrictions.
This is just a sweep across the surface. Almost all of these approaches are combined in this gorgeous scene log by someone who is, I think, the most talented writer about the hypnobottom experience out there, @sleepingirl. (also where the title of this entry comes from) That's @mephki as the top, with @OneEyeStranger assisting - by the way, how happy am I that I have now met all three people in person! Anyway, one day I would love to be able to create an experience incorporating both rope and hypnosis that is that seamless and that powerful.
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Good things are already coming out of having written this, in particular @Guilty pointing me to this incredibly cool-looking short book, HYPNOBARI (like hyno and shibari)! Really looking forward to reading it.
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