Huh. So this is a blog about hypnosis.

Twenty-something hypnoswitch she/her

[winged-void]

the line between a good bit and a bdsm scene really just does not exist

[misscammiedawn]

One key skill every hypnotist must learn is to take credit for that which happens on its own. It makes a hypnotee all the more convinced of your sway over them when you point out what they are already doing and you convince them it's because of you.

Here's the fun part, though. Aren't you influencing someone when they agree to give you that credit? Are you feeling more agreeable because you want to agree with me or because I am making you agree with me?

The trick is to make sure there's an element of consent. You may not be breathing because I am pointing it out, but you might just be letting that breath slow down and become more relaxing. If you followed along there then surely it's because I suggested it. If you followed that suggestion, would you follow the next?

It's such a playful little game, should you follow along and do the agreeable thing. Sure you could just ignore, reply with a rejection and that's fine. Choosing not to play the game is still a choice.

But to those who want to play?

What else could I take credit for, I wonder? Surely if you like this post it's because you agree with my words on some level... and if you reblog, maybe that means I influenced you to want to share these words with others.

Easy opt in/opt out.

I get to take credit and you get to follow along. Sounds an easy deal, no?

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

it's also important that you understand that lying is fun. in particular, it's no domspace but the feeling when you trick someone into believing a true statement is a lie, and acting on that belief, is kinda awesome. but in general deceit is just really fun.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

you really have to be careful with epiphany 'cause at some point you realize how easy it is to induce the feeling of enlightenment. the euphoria of seeing things come together and knowing how they fit. and it really fucks with your sense of your own ability to understand what the fuck is going on. it's really fun though.

[binaural-histolog]

Cold Control Theory

I wrote up a page on cold control theory!

And I mean theory here. So much theory. At some point I realized just Zotero and PDFs wasn't going to cut it alone and I had to use pyzotero-cli and Docling to yank it all into a knowledge base.

This one is as much academic digging as I care to do for a while, but there are some really fun threads to pull on. What is consciousness? What is a thought? What is dissociation? How do you match up abstract philosophical concepts to the neurons in our heads, and what do you lose in the process?

[maidthings]

you meet a cute girl who wants to hypnotise you and you go in expecting some sex stuff but she mostly just has you relax there for a bit which is a little disappointing but its still always great to spend time with an old friend

[escuerzoresucitado]

[findingfeather]

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

[redcurlzbychoice]

Open label placebo, still works.

[miniaturize]

i like the idea of triggers or phrases that put you in trance that aren't necessarily the generic or cliche ones, but that still make sense and convey what they are (as opposed to a random phrase or code). i think "indulge me for a moment" could work

[miniaturize]

a hypnotist is messing around, maybe playfully arguing with you, or trying to get you to do something, and you're uncooperative, and they say it almost casually, but just a little lower and closer to your ear, "oh, come on, just indulge me for a moment." and it's like you have to play along. maybe you're still fully aware and just can't resist it, maybe you're not aware of it and suddenly want to follow along. but you'll do it until they're satisfied.

[misscammiedawn]

One of the most fun things about being a stone top style dominant kinky asexual is that I am driven entirely by reactions.

Which means the entire time I work on a partner I am not driven by sexual desire or my own impulses. I'm driven by curiosity to see what will get a reaction, to see how far I can take a scene, to change things up and see what intriguing developments or improvements may occur.

It's like being an unethical mad scientist who invites people to be experimented upon...

and my heavens there are a lot of fun people who enjoy letting me alter their brains and watch how far I can push them.

[caspianhypno]

Hypnoctic visual induction but instead of a spiral or pocket wacth the old Dvd bouncing logo screen.

[i-suggest-hypno]

real

[clockheartdoll]

[ace-trainer-alice]

Also like, the level of built-in "I did not do this" that hypnosis provides works really well with various other disavowal kinks. I like to describe it as performing an action without awareness of your intent to do so.

Of course, it's not truly unique to hypnosis. You can simply not think about the fact that you're holding still and not fighting back at all while being spanked, being touched inappropriately in ways you hate, or while being dressed up in embarrassing outfits while others watch.

But, it's hard to reach the level of cognitive dissonance necessary to actively request such things. To beg for more between counts. To loudly say how much you like it and make dull eye contact where you moan and squeal. To twirl on command or even change your own clothes. Hypnosis provides both a framework for the process to reach the state and a narrative justification for how you got there.

In this way, it acts as a multiplier for other kinks. Letting you delve deeper into the contradictions of disavowal. This isn't you so it doesn't count. This doesn't feel like you so it doesn't count. It's all a show so it doesn't count.

And, further into it, we find ever more eroticism. More guilt, more glee, more embarrassment, more excitement. All so woven together that you can barely tell the pieces apart.

[innumerable-voices]

Domme pro tip:

Most people take a gag as permission to be loud. Either because they take it as a challenge "try to silence me, I'll show you" or because they think it's going to muffle noise so they're free to be noisy. They'll be unintelligible of course but they will make all types of pretty noises.

On the other hand a blindfold makes most people quiet. They still want to have situational awareness, they still want to track your movements, so they focus on their hearing and stop making sounds that would make it harder to hear you.

[innumerable-voices]

Domme pro tip:

Most people use breathing to regulate emotions and manage pain. Deep consistent breaths, in through the nose and out through the mouth. You can take advantage of this by either blocking their nose or mouth or by interrupting their breathing with will timed stimuli. Suddenly your high pain tolerance sub becomes a wimp, your composed and mature sub becomes a panicky baby

[innumerable-voices]

Domme pro tip:

Like in horror movies tension is important in scenes. You might think that to make your scene really intense you have to be serious the entire time but what you'll find actually happens is you wind the tension up to a certain point and then can't get it any higher and the scene becomes stale. But if you let yourself relax, loosen up, and make a few well timed jokes breaking the tension a little you can then wind it up again and make it more tense than you could previously.

[innumerable-voices]

Domme pro tip:

Expectation is an incredibly powerful tool you can make use of. People like patterns, people like predictability, they like knowing what's going to happen. So make rules and follow them, make patterns and keep to them, be predictable and your sub will feel safe and comfortable with you, they will trust you more if they know what you're going to do and how you're going to react.

And if you know what someone is expecting you can functionally read their mind, better than that you can control their mind, you don't just know the thoughts they're having you put them their. Plus now you have all of these opportunities to create wonderfully strong emotions and reactions by going against their expectation. Don't do this too frequently or you'll ruin both their feeling of safety and the effect this has but keep it in your back pocket and use it with precision.

[innumerable-voices]

Domme pro tip:

Your sub wants to impress you, they want you to be proud of them. So when they're approaching their limit if you point that out to them ("OK darling I think that's just about all you can take") they will try to convince you they're not ("no please I can take more for you please") and if you give them an opening to do so ("are you sure?") they will jump at the chance to impress you. Follow this up with praise so they know they did a good job. This will leave them feeling satisfied and proud of themselves in a way that reaching their limit and having to tell you they've had enough won't. If you're careful you can use this to gently push their limits and comfort zone so you can both experience more intense sessions in the future

[innumerable-voices]

Now you tell me some:

[agnosticianshypno]

NEEHU 17 Remote Hypnosis Class

I taught a class! Here are the slides. Notes are included under the slides, though they're a bit messy at times.

[misscammiedawn]

No phrase more validating to be told than "this is your fault, somehow".

[misscammiedawn]

A hypnotist's most reliable trick is to take credit for what the mind does naturally. So, yes. It is our fault. We did this.

Deal with it.

[cognitivebloom-deactivated20260]

Thank you

[binaural-histolog]

The Sausage Factory of the Mind: Hypnosis, Illusionism, and the Consciousness Myth

Looking at hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion is trying to make sense of a perceptual system that can replace "outside" perception with "inside" perception.

There are several theories on how hypnosis can do this. Regardless of how the theories work, they have a common problem – they have to draw a line from the hypnotic suggestion all the way down to the brain's interpretation and the cognitive neuroscience that makes up the brain, all the way down to the suggested perception and its representation in the executive centers of the brain in the prefrontal cortex.

Cold Control Theory and the follow up paper Phenomenological Control as Cold Control is probably the best throughline description of what's happening. However, I have struggled with Cold Control Theory, because it connects hypnosis with an abstract model of consciousness called Higher Order Thought (HOT).

HOT is well known enough that it can be mapped to an implementation, i.e. it can be connected to one of the neuronal models of consciousness like Global Workspace Neuronal Theory. I really like a lot of the work that's happening in these models -- in particular, there's some great research seeing how these models could be implemented in practice using biologically plausible recurrent neural networks.

The catch is when we start thinking about consciousness and thought, we tend to think we know what we're talking about.

Cognitive neuroscience often uses vision to demonstrate the disconnect between the product and the engine. Regardless of how the human brain perceives vision as a seamless whole, the actual engine that produces that perception is utterly unlike our perceived experience. To compare our experience of vision with the actual mechanisms that create vision is to confuse a sausage with a sausage factory.

In the same way, cognitive consciousness – our perception of our own thoughts and cognition – is not a privileged representation of how cognition is constructed. Dennett posited the desktop metaphor, in which a simple graphical user interface can look simple while being a complex interaction of billions of concurrent instructions in a CPU interacting with a graphic processor unit. This philosophical stance is Illusionism. Keith Frankish does a great job of explaining illusionism as a theory of consciousness and I broadly agree with the argument. I would say that rather than saying "I am conscious" it's more accurate to say "I perceive consciousness" – and even that perception is necessarily the end result of many unconscious perceptual engineering layers.

But more than that, I would have to argue that the idea of consciousness is a cultural hallucination. In hypnosis, the idea of trance as a "hypnotic state" is so ingrained since Trilby that it has been called the mother of all myths by some academics. Despite the certainty that a hypnotic state exists, there is no set definition of what this hypnotic state is, or how it can be identified – believers have their own definitions and their own certainty despite the lack of commonality. In the same way, consciousness is a label that gets slapped on anything that looks potentially relevant to the subject at hand.

Out of all the theories available, I would probably lean towards Attention Schema Theory, which is a cognitive schema of the brain's own attention at a high level. Because this is an abstracted representation of the brain itself, the brain conflates the model with the reality. The author, Graziano, has already implemented a neural network with an attention schema and demonstrated that reflection can dramatically improve model performance.

Graziano also has a number of things to say about bridging the gap between the "physically incoherent consciousness we think we have and the complex, rich, but mechanistic consciousness we may actually have." Graziano defines two different kinds of consciousness:

i-consciousness (informational): How information is selected, enhanced, and processed in the brain - explained by Global Workspace Theory

m-consciousness (mysterious): The experiential essence people claim to have - the "hard problem"

And describes different theories as different perspectives on the problem.

Global Workspace (GW): Explains i-consciousness - attentionally enhanced information reaching brain-wide networks

Higher-Order Thought (HOT): We contain meta-information about how we process information

AST: Provides the social-cognitive model explaining why we claim to have subjective experience

Illusionism: Consciousness as the brain thinking it has something it doesn't actually have.

Cold Control Theory and HOT are perfectly valid high level theories, and there's no argument that consciousness is a lot easier to say than "metacognition" or "reflective executive processing" but I do quietly hope that the terminology becomes more concrete and we move away from the idea of consciousness altogether.

[norealnameshere]

Arie Rambles About Text Hypnosis!

(A long writing/essay about what I’ve learned about text hypnosis and the stuff I commonly tell people when they ask about it. :3 )

I adore text hypnosis. I’ve had chances to experience all of the main hypnosis mediums (other than in person, text, voice, video being the others) from BOTH sides, as a tist and as a subject, and text hypnosis is still probably my favorite. 

It also seems to be the least known and least liked of all the mediums, and I’ve found myself writing and rewriting information about and defenses of it time and time again, and I had the idea to write up a neat little document to share and save myself some time. X3

In this (extremely long) piece of writing, I will mostly be addressing a lot of the questions and complaints I’ve heard from people when I tell them I do text hypnosis. The main parts will be a discussion of trance states, the complaints people tend to make, a list of advantages vs disadvantages (and some suggestions for dealing with them), and a bit about tips and tricks and advice from what I do and what I’ve done. X3

Before I begin, I still very much consider myself an amateur, please do not take this as straight fact, it is merely a writeup of my opinions and what I’ve experienced. (At the time of writing, I’ve been doing text hypno as a subject for about a year and a half, and as a tist for about a year.)

Introduction, mostly about kinds of trance states

A lot of the misconceptions about text hypno are at heart misconceptions about hypnosis itself - I’ve also done a LOT of working with newbies and introducing them to hypnosis, and I always tell them that the first thing to do is to toss away pretty much whatever their preconceived notions are. Film/tv shows/books and stage/street hypnosis are fun to watch, but what they portray are very specific ways of approaching trance - possible, yes, but not common in actuality.

The popular image of hypnosis is of someone going limp, eyes closed, unable to move, barely able to respond aloud. Or, as in many thriller/spy movies, someone hypnotized against their will, brainwashed and able to be set off with a single word to go do…whatever they’ve been programmed to do. And those are POSSIBLE, just not at all common. (The second usually requires a great deal of drugs and other bad shenanigans, but that would be another topic for another informational writing. Perhaps I’ll write on subject agency one day. Likely I’ll not. xD)

However, trance states come in a HUGE variety of appearances, and there are some that happen in everyday life, outside of hypnosis. The most common one mentioned is if you’re driving along and find yourself at your destination without really noticing the journey along the way. Another is reading a page of a book and realizing that you can’t really remember any of what you just read. ‘Zoning out’ is a type of trance state. I like to consider those uncontrolled trance states, and hypnosis and meditation guided trance states. (And the difference between those, to me, is like someone walking ahead of you and leading you down a path (Meditation) vs someone taking your hand and pulling you down a path (Hypnosis))

(I always tell newbies in a first session that if they feel lightly relaxed, I consider it a success. Like any other skill, it is something you can build on and deepen *pun intended*. ;3)

And people can trance differently at different times - most of the time I’m ‘down’, I’m just very still and seem to focusing intently on the computer screen, either waiting for words if its text hypno or listening for words if its voice or video. I have gotten to a point where I can go body limp, face blank, completely out of it levels of trance, but it’s not something that happens commonly, and not something I want to have happen commonly. I very much prefer the kind of trance state where you can listen and react and are in an incredibly suggestible state. ;3

Complaints and Misconceptions, Mentioned and Addressed.

WITH THAT SAID, let’s get back to text hypnosis. 

There’s a few major complaints and misconceptions about text hypnosis, and I’ll go through them one by one with the common points I make in response.

“Text hypnosis can’t be real, because in real hypnosis the subject goes completely limp and there’s no way they can type.” (This is an actual thing said to me by a supposedly trained and credited tist I was negotiating a session with. When I tried to say actually, that’s not true, he sent pictures of his girlfriend to ‘prove real trance looks like this’, and jumped down my throat when I asked if he had permission to do that. I’ve had some interesting people in my DMs in the past. xD)

- Those paragraphs up there about trance states? Yep, that, that’s how I usually respond. (Although I may or may not have gotten REAL detailed about some of the things I’ve done while under in text hypno when I responded to the interesting individual I mentioned. x3)

“I don’t understand how someone can type while they’re tranced.”

- Unless you’re someone who genuinely struggles with typing and has to consider every key as you press it, in general typing is not exactly an active thought activity. Most of the time you don’t go ‘I need to type yes, so I’m going to press the y key now, and the e key now, and the s key now. Often, you don’t even think ‘I am typing the word yes now.”, you just…think words and type them as you go, without even directly thinking about the keyboard.

However, it is also something you can work on making easier and more natural. When I’m working with someone new who is uncertain about typing while in trance, I will start by not making them for the first session, I’ll take them down, then bring them up again and check in on them and ask for feedback. I tell them that any questions they see during trance they can answer aloud or in their mind, whatever works well for them. When they’re comfortable with that level, I’ll start having them answer with a y for yes and an n for no (and make sure to ask only yes/no questions). We’ll work up from there as necessary. :)

“I hate text hypnosis because there’s no feedback.”

- I will grant that feedback is not as immediate as it is in voice/video/in person. You cannot hear or see the person and know, moment by moment, how they appear to be doing. However, there are many ways of getting feedback, and sight/sound are not the only ones by a long shot. 

Especially in a first session, I tend to do a series of short drops - taking someone down a little bit, bringing them up, and checking in on how everything is going, what’s worked well, what hasn’t worked as well, etc. Not only is this a good way of getting feedback of how things are going, it also serves to fractionate the subject a little. ;3

As you do more text hypnosis, you also get to know things to watch for - responses starting to slow down, grammar and spelling changing, fuzzy typing (oh gods, I love fuzzy typing~), etc. Having that history of what was typed means you can also have your subject read back over what happened and give you feedback based on that - I know quite a few people whose memories get fuzzy about what actually happened in sessions, but having that record can jog the memory and help them go ‘oh yeah, that happened, and this could have gone better, and…”

Sometimes I feel like it’s *better* feedback in the long run, because I can scroll back through the history and see what I’ve done in the past and how it’s worked. Since I started doing mostly voice hypno with my pets, I’ve missed having that record, because I have a terrible memory. ^^”

“Text hypnosis is fake, it’s all just roleplayers.”

- Sometimes, yes. Usually that’s something you can figure out if you make sure you have a good, thorough discussion and negotiation beforehand, to find out what everyone involved wants out of the session. If it’s something that really bothers you, make sure to include it in your list of questions.

I would say this is a VERY important thing to find out if it’s someone you’re planning on doing an extended number of sessions with, but that’s also the kind of person you should have constant ongoing discussions with anyways. (Hell, I’ve been with my tist and my pets for a long while now, and we still periodically have negotiations. Things change and need to be rediscussed. It happens. :3)

If it’s a one off session, well…at least you’re getting practice with your writing, right?

(I will update this from time to time with other frequent questions or complaints I hear or receive.)

Advantages vs Disadvantages

Now for something a little more fun! Advantages of text vs the other mediums, as well as disadvantages and how to overcome them. :3 (This is definitely a section I’ll update over time, as I think of more things to add. ^-^)

Advantages:

- One of the absolute best things about text is the record it leaves. Unless you record your sessions, voice and video and in person sessions are left only in the memories of the participants. In text, unless the place you’re typing in is deleted after a certain point (or if someone edits their text afterwards, tho’ that actually can be fun too, and I’ll address it later. ;3), you have this useful record of what you did, what was said. 

This is great for multiple reasons. The first and biggest one for me is how much it helps, considering my memory issues - I have a shitty memory, and forget things way too easily. On both tist and sub side, it’s great to be able to scroll back and reread what happened in a session. Second, rereading is a great way to relive and refeel those memories (especially if you miiiiight possibly have the ability to reexperience memories almost as strong as the moment they were made, coughcough) which is also hella good for conditioning. (;3) Third, it can be fun to link back to certain points or use bits of the written record against people. You can tease them with things they wrote, reference past experiences, or (and this is definitely absolutely completely hypothetical and not something I’ve had done to me at ALL, oh no. >.>) leave little ‘traps’ if you know they reread - “When you reread this, send ‘this message’ to me so I know you did, and then forget~” kinds of things.

This fact can also help if you have different schedules or are in different time zones, you can leave short written bits for the other, delayed action traps so to speak that go off when read - not as a replacement for active sessions, but a fun supplement. :3

- Related to this idea but in a different direction, you can create…hmm, kind of ‘homework assignments’ for a subject to read later, or read over and over again. VERY useful for conditioning, especially if you have a suggestion or an order of ‘once you have finished reading this, write [this sentence] to me to let me know you have read it.’

- Another HUGE advantage of text is privacy. I still live with my family and, while I have the benefit of a basement room, interruptions are common and curious ears are a possibility. For people who live with roommates or with bedrooms in the house closer to family members, privacy becomes even more critical. On the subject side there might be some visual signs of what’s happening, depending on what’s being done and how they trance, but overall on both sides it will just look like concentrating intently on the screen and typing, just like writing an email or visiting with people on a discord. 

As a side note to that, you can also do fun things like be innocently sitting in a voice channel with them, chatting with other people, while sending them suggestions or triggers in text, and watch them try not to react, try to resist. ;3

- Just like there are certain tricks only doable in voice or video or in person, there are things you can do in text that aren’t easily replicated in text. 

Just a few ideas off the top of my head are using formatting for various kinds of emphasis (italics and bold are great for helping to add ‘tone’ to your typing, strikethrough can be a fun way to tease someone or to say something you’re too flustery to admit openly, spoiler text can be used to tempt someone and trick them or trap them); italics can be used to denote ‘actions’, which some people either have or can develop the ability to ‘feel’; making use of brackets for different effects (anything I write within {these} you obey immediately and then forget doing is a big one. I’ve created an ability for like…the back part of my head to communicate with my tist even when the active part of my head is dropped, which is pretty useful to be able to go {hey, that thing you suggested got interpreted wrong and I’m kinda stuck now}, and report on things without having to actually come back up. x3); tying triggers or suggestions to emotes to have innocent seeming ways to play with someone or fluster them; and so many more. X3

- Text hypnosis is a godsend for people with hearing or speech problems. I have certain hearing issues that make it hard for me to hear people with certain voice pitches, especially when over a phone or a voice channel. It can break immersion and be frustrating if you have to keep asking for someone to repeat what they’ve said or repeat yourself for someone. You don’t have to worry about volume control or if your microphone is picking up everything you’re saying, don’t have to worry about people misunderstanding your accent, don’t have to worry that you’re mishearing something and responding in the wrong way. 

- One of the biggest reasons I love text hypnosis is the small amount of space I have to think about what I’m writing before I send it. I am WORLDS more creative with my phrasing in text as opposed to in voice, because I don’t have to worry about stammering or stuttering or hesitating while I figure out where I’m going next. Plus I have a tiny amount of time to change what I’m sending before I hit send, if I realize mid sentence that its not what I want to say. I can be thinking about the next line while I’m still typing the last one, but I can’t think of the next sentence while I’m in the middle of saying the current one.

- Seeing a whole page full of typed mantras is lovely, just saying. ;3

Disadvantages (and potential fixes!)

- Biggest one is lack of immediate feedback, which I discussed earlier. :3

- Those who aren’t as skilled at typing or reading may find themselves having some issues. One of the things that brings me out of trace the fastest is having to wait for too long - this is a major disadvantage for tists who are slow typists. ^^”

This problem does present more of a difficulty to get past than some, but I do have some suggestions to try. One thing I’ve done (and that can also be useful if internet flickers and having ‘buffering time’ so to speak, for ANY medium that uses the internet) is to account for that at the beginning with something like “If there is quiet for a moment, you’ll find yourself quietly rereading the last few lines you’ve received, each line you read helping to keep you calm and keep you deep.” or “Any time there is a pause in the words you read for more than a few seconds, you’ll find yourself focusing on [some spot on the screen].’ Specifically on discord, the ‘someone is typing’ message can be useful as a focus anchor.

I don’t approve of copy/paste text hypno in the most part, but perhaps if speedy typing is not something you’re good at, and if it’s a basic induction, AND if you tell your subject what you’re doing, then I could see using it to help make up for slower typing. It’s often easier to keep someone in trance with slower typing than it is to take them down in the first place. You could also possibly give them a written induction file to basically prime the pump. The key is to talk to the subject and find out which, if any of these options are potentially usable. (Also make sure you write your own induction, don’t just copy someone else script.) I would suggest being ready to throw in some in the moment typed lines as well, reacting to things the subject may say. Be ready to improv a little.

- This is more of a problem with manipulative, bad tists than with text hypnosis specifically, but a written record could be used against you (in the same way that someone could secretly record you in the other ways and then use them against you). Be very careful about what information you share with people, basic internet safety stuff, okay?

Also watch out for if someone edits or deletes that record in an attempt to gaslight you or mess with you. If that’s a concern, you can make backup copies of sessions to keep on your computer so you always have the original to consult. Most chat programs that allow editing will also indicate that the original has been edited, so that can also help.

And finally, a few tips and tricks I’ve picked up, basically things I’ve found fun to do, from either side. X3

Assorted Tips and Tricks

- Text is AMAZING for teasing. I am actually known and am infamous for my teasing (there is a server where I helped contribute to a week of so much teasing in general chat that they designated a separate channel for heavy teasing. x3) - I started dabbling in teasing for weeks before I actually tried my hand at any actual hypnosis. (Teasing is wonderful in voice, too, but I have noticed sometimes if someone is chatting normally, then suddenly throws out something teasing, it can be easy to miss it among the normal chat. It’s much harder to miss when it’s in text, especially if accompanied with an emote. ;3)

In text you can also leave teasing messages for someone to see later, maybe after they’ve gone to sleep, or while they’re playing games, or distracted in voice chat somewhere. Like a fun little trap they spring later, and you get a lovely ‘hfouiwenfkwje!!’ later. x3

It’s also fun to have ‘in jokes’, so to speak, and to slyly slip those words and phrases in with normal talking, and get people flustering that way. (For instance, if you use a certain kind of imagery to drop someone, like balloons, and then find ways to slide balloon references into your typing to remind a subject of that session.)

- Group hypnosis is a lot of fun - there’s a few places I’m in that have text channels that allow open hypno, and slyly twisting around the conversation and playing with words until you catch a bunch of people and set them drifting is fuuuun.

It’s also sometimes easier than in voice, because either you have everyone mute and you feel like you’re talking into a void, or you have a chaos of overlapping voices. In a group text session, you can often begin with something like ‘the more you see others type the same kind of responses you do, the more the phrases affect you.’ I have seen cases where you have almost group mantras going on, and the people involved said seeing the others typing definitely added to the experience.

- If you DO have an opportunity to do voice at least once, or once in a while, you can make use of that to add to your text hypnosis - I have some people I have done BOTH with, and they said that they were pretty quickly able to ‘hear’ my voice in my typed words - I actually try very hard to match my written style to my talking style for that very reason. :)

I also have a few emotes that apparently really resemble expressions I’ve done in video before, and I can make use of those emotes to evoke memories of those expressions, and things I’ve done while grinning just THAT way~ ;3

Conclusion

So!

Almost a month after I started and many pages later I am done with what was supposed to be a quick little writeup of ‘things I tend to tell people when text hypnosis comes up’, and knowing me I will continue to edit and add to this as I think of new things.

However! It is done for now, and I hope my rambling was useful as well as entertaining. :3

I am more than glad to expand upon anything I’ve written, my DMs are open for questions or you can track me down in a discord server and ask there, I’m in a few different ones. ^-^

[misscammiedawn]

A Discord I'm on had a Discover Your Kinks (under surveys) test so we took it.

I think I discovered during this that we've become comfortable with the trope concept of erotic intimacy via existing in kink spaces and seeing art, photos and fics but when we read descriptions of acts and try to picture ourselves involved in any regard our emotions range from revulsion to extreme apathy.

It's like an autism test where you get skewed results because you don't always react that way. Or our DES-II and MID exams back in the day where we set the benchmark of 'normal forgetfulness' and 'zoning out' at our own experience, not realizing how abnormal our experience was.

In this sense, we had to intentionally identify the hypnosis questions and say "well we're not turned on by it, but I do find it appealing'