#nova pro 100

[dommesticpet]

What's Behind The Mask

What feels like forever ago, there was this podcast called Fetish Flame (RIP) that had its hosts get a little into hypnosis when they were winding down. It was pretty good and one of the things that happened near the end was that they experimented with the Nova Pro 100 and a hood at the same time, due to its bright lights. For some reason I remembered this recently and I brought it up to @dommestic, so on Sunday morning we gave it a shot. She bought what I assume is some sort of spandex hood with a reenforced, built-in eye mask which blocks most of the light from the outside, but if my eyes are open I can see traces of the blinky lights through it. And brother/sister/sibling, let me tell you, it makes it hard to think during and after.

If you've never used the Nova Pro 100 (which I believe is the most deadly consumer-grade brainwashing machine 1994 had to offer, who should probably be paying me for the plugs some day) it's a very old-school gizmo with red LEDs on a metal box that connects to headphones, LED-enabled eyewear, and if you're so inclined, a microphone/audio input so someone can talk to you or you can play audio. It's pre-Bluetooth and I think the first version of this might be pre-internet. (We didn't get one until almost 10 years ago.) I got trained on it a lot, so I tend to drop pretty quick and pretty hard, although we haven't used it as much lately. (I'm hoping this changes now that it's not Obscenely Hot All the Time.)

The hood added some surprising effects. For starters it was more like I was trapped in my head and that submissive headspace. We don't have much in the way of kink apparel or collars or some such. As such, I was not entirely prepared for the sensation that despite the back-to-back hypnosis sessions being over, I was going to be pretty much in ultra-submissive-headspace mode for quite some time, which resulted in a very happy dominant, surprisingly so, to the extent of "I wonder if this is going to be a regular thing." Trying to fill various demands while blindfolded should be a challenge but I don't remember having any real difficulty with it.

It's cozy. It's tight. Should I be wearing more restrictive things for her enjoyment? I guess I'll need more research or serendipitous blog posts to find out.

How are you all doing?

[dommesticpet]

Do That Stuff

It was a good weekend inside the house.  Outside it was a little dicey.  The outside stuff is below the break at the bottom.

Sunday morning was amazing.  We keep the Nova Pro 100 on a little wheeled cart along with a few of the other hypnosis toys, mostly for storage reasons but also for ease-of-hiding.   You can wheel it into the closet and put it under a jacket or behind a hamper.   Echo also realized you can just wheel it next to me while I’m still sleeping.  From what I remember of the Nova Pro 100 session - no lights, lots of sounds, Echo said it was a setting she’s fairly sure we ran before.

Afterward she had some requests which I took care of - I am pretty sure she’s been training me for this - to be her own “personal porn,” which I have to admit is not the career path I planned for.   (Also it doesn’t pay anything!  Although there are benefits.)  In short, it was awesome.  I think this is more or less normal now - I don’t remember much of anything about the specific trance at all, so if she’s putting stuff in my head I don’t know what it is, or don’t have a problem with it, or some sort of combination platter with these items on it.

She made lunch and dinner (clearly we’re doing D/s wrong!) and I’ll need to be doing more food things.  I’ve got some stuff on hand to assemble to get on top of that.  And how are you?

One of my best friends has seemingly gone silent after mentioning some respiratory problems a week ago and he scheduled a doctor’s appointment.  I’m a little worried.  Normally you don’t say “I’m going to the doctor to get this checked” and not respond to your phone or messengers for a week.  If you do do this, please stop doing this.  Your friends want to hear from you.

I ventured Outside later in the evening on Saturday to pick up some provisions with Echo and noticed a definite pattern in the store - the general pattern was male-presenting people did not wear masks and female-presenting people generally did.  If there was a couple, most of the couples had one masked and one unmasked person following that pattern.  (If it was a same sex duo, it generally was two masked women or two unmasked men.)

Due to my job I’ve been home a lot, and since I have no actual need to go out I tend to just stay home now.   I was going out to lunch nearly every weekday for years because I’m a work-at-homer, and you can get a little stir-crazy doing this for years.  It’s going to be forgettable year as milestones go.   At least February was a short adventure outside the state!  I would bet you all a pin that hypno-cons are off the table for 2020 at this point but I don’t want to pay shipping if I’m wrong so let’s not do that.

I hope you are doing OK, and that everybody you know is OK too.

[dommesticpet]

Absolutely Free

Since the abrupt hiatus of the DommesticPet World Tour, I lost a bit of the structure that comes with being away from home for days or weeks in some months.   Since I’ve been working from home for quite some time, upcoming trips would serve as the framework to do literally everything else.  If you’re gone for a week in May you know that you have to finish up a bunch of stuff for that week - and maybe the following week - before one can take off.  I’ve got a trip-free future for now, which makes it a challenge to navigate a few things.  Deadlines, I like.  It’s been a big adjustment to lose motivation in the form of dates where I can’t actually do anything due to being out of town, or on a plane, or during a big presentation.

Saturday was a bit more floundering than I like. Normally we had a pretty set schedule - Echo has an exercise thing, then we go to lunch, then we take care of errands, and the day more or less fell into place.  Now? There’s really nowhere that’s safe to go, so it sort of opens up to entropy.  I got a lot of stuff done on Sunday, so I feel a bit better about that.

But before that, we had a good morning.  Echo got me up, shoved me out the door to get water and take care of myself, and while I was still more or less completely out of it dumped me into the Nova Pro 100 chair.

This is how this is best done.

I was half-out of it while she was talking to me before the visor and headphones were put on my head.  She told me it would be a longer session, and I vaguely remember it sounding like one we did before, but I couldn’t begin to tell you what the blinking lights were doing or what the sounds were like.  After it was done running I had to strip, go over to the bed, help her finish, get finished, and help her finish again.  I’d go into more detail but I would prefer not to.  It was a great time and took me a while to get back in my head - she kept talking to me and I was writing on the bed a fair amount.   10/10, would recommend. 

Later on Sunday, Alizabeth and I squeezed in some online trivia-ish games (which I shan’t buzz market but they were a lot of fun.)  10/10, would also recommend playing online games with Alizabeth.

I also got a lot of stuff done - maybe not as much as I needed to, but I see progress.  In paint peeling. I see progress.  In leaky ceilings.

And now, another week with another round of meetings moved online.  Pro: I got to skip another cross-country trip with the diseases and layovers that come with that. 

Hopefully some more fun things happen during the week part, as every Monday and Tuesday seem to feel like years, but Thursday and Friday go somewhat quickly.   I’m really happy that most of my friends are sending messages my way and letting me know how they’re doing, or are in about as regular communication as usual.  I’m also really happy to see your stories come across my dashboard, even the “well I’m stuck here and bored” posts remind me that we’re still out there, we’re still needing to find things to do to keep stuff fun amidst the sudden burst of chaos and the unthinkable increase in the amount of our collective sitting around time. 

[dommesticpet]

Built Environment

You missed an incredible trance experience on Monday night!  And so did I.   I was pretty bushed so I didn’t even think about writing it up.   I was up too late on Sunday and up too early on Monday, which meant I had about 0 defense against the Nova Pro 100 and Echo when she asked if I wanted a session.  I don’t know how fast I dropped but I know I dropped hard.   Everything was distant and I remember her mentioning my neck was flopped over and my mouth was hanging open.

(I’m lots of fun. Everyone should play with me.)

I’m unable to recall too many specifics other than I had to make sure she was happy, the word “brainwashing” came up once or twice, and since it was around the time we still had stuff to do I had to, uh, take care of things later myself.

I’ve got enough hair to grab on to now, and Echo did! It was great.   It’s probably for the best that she doesn’t wear the crystal around, or anything else she might be inclined to swing at me.  I don’t think I’m a lightweight but there’s certainly an element of being easy when I’m exhausted enough, and this has been a work week of exhaustion, despite being at home.  On top of that, there are also issues of states opening versus not opening, resulting in questions of how safe we will be, and our friends, and everybody else.  (I’ve been social distancing in an undisclosed underground location for years, it was generally unusual that I go out to see people other than food or errands most days.)

I’m writing this late (late) Tuesday or early Wednesday, well past the point of the day suddenly becoming exciting and after the point I should have gone to bed.   It’s not a good habit.

[dommesticpet]

Undying Love

Despite heat, work travel, and a growing sense of dread in the world, Echo and I are still enjoying kinky hypnosis fun here and there.  It’s hard to schedule fun despite the fact that we live together, thanks to other responsibilities and slightly askew schedules - but Sunday mornings we can usually make work.  I assume people in LDRs long for the greener grass of shared homes, but responsibilities can make certain activities elusive.  As what can be loosely defined as responsible adults, you have to make time for the people that matter, because otherwise you’ll always be doing something else.  If you get an Echo in your life, you carve out all the time you can - I need to find a way to carve out more that would fit in with her schedule.

Why?

Because Sunday morning was awesome.  Given how warm it is, it’s difficult to turn up the heat - doubly so as Echo works out really hard and we needed to be careful around her legs.  Thankfully I also pretend to work out hard, so I can usually move things around to make sure she’s pretty happy too.  Sometimes twice!  Or more!  Well, not usually more. Things can get pretty unpleasant if you try for too much.  There’s probably some parable about climaxes and Icarus and flying too close to the sun, but I’m pretty sure if I googled something about too much physical pleasure and feathers, I would not get the intended result.

After, she did more than a little teasing of me.   For those just joining us, I’m generally pretty much on my own most of the time - we consider ourselves equals, we have jobs, we have responsibilities. But over the years, she’s claimed things like she gets to eat the first bite of food, or when we’re fooling around I have to ask permission when it’s time to - well, you know - and also she decided what kind of underwear I’m allowed to wear.   

The whole agreed-upon fiction that is D/s is what any two or more people decide that it is, but about two years and change of regular hypnosis activity and D/s I’m sure the whole “fiction” and “agreed upon” lines start to blur or fade away.  When it comes time to buy new underwear, I don’t even look at any kind but what she likes. Am I just used to it? Did she put something in my head?  Is it just to make her happy?  I’m not entirely sure - she doesn’t ask much of me, but it seems I’ve got no problems doing most of it.  Where were we?

Oh yes, the Nova Pro 100.  After fluffing me up a bit, it was time for the chair.  The chair is this old massage chair, with a sheet to increase the snuggle factor when the Nova Pro 100 goes on.  For anyone just joining us, the Nova Pro 100 is a very 20th century light-and-sound machine using weird noises and LEDs to muck with your brain waves.  (That may not be the exact verbiage on the box.) Aside from this jokingly being referred to a brainwashing machine, I’m also a huge dork for old electronic things so this is especially delightful on that level too.  Today’s session didn’t have many lights that I recall before the end, but it had plenty of sounds and I remember the volume level changing at one point.   The constant strangeness of this device is I’m fairly confident I wasn’t sleeping, but it has gotten to the point where I generally can’t remember anything for very long.

Memory in a Nova Pro session is sort of like walking on the sand, dragging a broom behind you.  You can see a few steps behind you - but the broom smooths it out as you go.  You’ve probably got a solid minute of memory tops before it gets mopped up and while in that moment I can feel like I remember something, but then that’s gone, too.  I know she was talking, I know I was listening, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t responding, and I couldn’t  begin to tell you what was the subject of her one-sided conversation with me after my eyes closed.  This is consistent with a lot of the previous sessions.  She could be programming me, she could be talking about something on the news, or maybe it was hot sexy stuff.  I have no idea.  It didn’t even occur to me to think about this until I started writing this post and I’m sitting here going “...wait a minute, what the heck do I tell these people she did?”

Afterward, I can say that she did the kind of things that married couples do to one another when one of them has their wife/dominant-approved underwear on, which is a little too tight, with the kind of merciless physical teasing you probably would approve.  After that was lunch at home - thankfully we had something she heated up for us, so I wouldn’t have to pretend like I wasn’t glowing when we went out in public.

Maybe it’s a blessing that I can’t remember the specific contents of the trance, although I don’t know if it’s intentional or not. Maybe my brain thinks it’s funny.   It seems like the kind of thing I would do. And GLOW season 3 was great, check it out.

[dommesticpet]

New Puritan

Thursday was Thanksgiving in the USA - which means a lot of us get the day off of work.  That’s a big deal!  More people used to get the day off when I was younger, but movies and zoos are now joined by grocery stores and many big retailers.  I appreciate having somewhere to go, but I would rather people have the day off.

We started the day late, as I (and probably also Echo) were working off of a deficit in our sleep accounts. I had a marathon of a Sunday and I’m probably just now bouncing back, after a lot of physical activity on Thanksgiving.  After we woke up, the Nova Pro 100 came out for what I was told was a very long time. Amazingly (perhaps sadly?) I had no concept of how long it was relative to a longer session.  That’s the weird thing about long-term training or hypnosis or whatever it is we’re doing. The initial tinge and fear of it not working was replaced at some point by being pretty spaced out.  What was she saying? I’m still not sure. Something about the bed?  The lights and sounds did something. I think it sounded like an electronic recreation of waves, but I could be wrong.  All I know is I got dropped at least one or two more times and I was doing all manners of things to/with Echo for a while.  It got loud.  She had fun. I did too.

Unrelated, a major appliance seemed to break.  We saw Knives Out, and also watched some old sci-fi and horror shows.  Family plans fell through so it was just the two of us - in other words, it was a day for which to be thankful.  Sure we had to brave a big box store to get a pie before the crazy retail carnage started since the grocery stores closed, but we got the pie and ate half of it within a couple of hours.  Again, a fine reason to be thankful.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.  I got to briefly chat to some of my good pals from the kink world, my non-kink friends seem too busy to reply, and I hear a storm outside.

[dommesticpet]

Halfway To The Infinite

It was a pretty good weekend! The best way I can describe the week was as one very long hold-your-breath-for-dear-life while hacking away at issues, and then by Friday it was sort of just collapse into a pile of human entropy.  I ate. I went out. I saw some things I wanted to see and Echo’s parents took us to dinner for a birthday. BUT WHO’S?   The next few weeks involve many trips where I will see work friends, old friends, and possibly a new friend-to-be while we see if age has given me the wisdom to not burn the candle at  both ends when dropped off in a city which effectively serves  as an amusement park for some of my hobbies come early next month.  Will I take responsibility for my health and take it easy for a night?  Probably not!  Unless certain stores close early.

We were sent some cookies. Some are OK. I would describe some as a war crime.

Sunday morning was good!  Echo woke me up and nudged me over to the Nova Pro 100 chair, and like usual I had a hard time remembering most of it. I’m not convinced she’s telling me to forget anything, I’m fairly sure my brain is just sort of doing that on its own or it’s a side-effect of prolonged exposure to lights and sounds and hypnosis kink from the media.  I have a very limited perception of what she says to me in there - I’m always curious if it’s one of those “We’re going to take a walk” inductions or “something something staircase” or what have you.  I can’t remember any of it if she did - I know there was something about this being a new session program, I know I thought I was keeping tabs on it for a while, but eventually it feels like I am in some half-dream and what she is putting in my head does not align with what I am imagining/dreaming/feeling entirely.  

Does that make sense?

She will need to verify it, but I’m pretty sure what is happening is she is telling me some sort of instructions about how much I enjoy this kink or some such, or possibly directives on what to do in bed after.  In my head is a mix of whatever I was doing before bed the previous night (music from games or a radio show, for example, or a store we went to) while reality does what it’s doing to me.  I don’t know why this is happening, or if it’s consistent, but it does seem to happen much of the time.  The program ran out a few minutes before the trance ended, but it did a good enough job of keeping me distracted that I was still not completely grasping what it was she was saying afterward.  I think I made some noises and she commented on them.  (I know, I know - this is all very useful for all of you.)

In bed we did bed things.  I know she enjoyed my actions a couple of times, and I was pretty worked up.  This is what kinks are for, if deployed properly.  She also teased the return of Mummification as the weather is starting to change with the seasons here - it really is kind of hot and gross during the summer unless you kink hard on “stank burrito” or “B.O. Chimney.”  

B.O. Chimney sounds like a good name for a Texas oil tycoon trying to buy an orphanage to evict the kids and drill for black gold in an old movie, doesn’t it?

Anyway, fall will be busy.  Summer was busy.  As always, it has been great to hear from those of you who reached out or regularly reach out to say hi and stuff.  I’m going to go to bed after I set this to post, so goodnight or good morning.  Just pick a time you would like me to tell  you is good, and have one of those.

[dommesticpet]

Fit And Working Again

Sunday was a pretty good day - gloomy, sure.  Grey, yes.  Oddly misty and foggy with lots of things we had to get done in a short period of time, but... where was I going? Oh right, Echo and I squeezed in some hypnosis kink fun before dinner.  

She tried - I think she said - a new Nova Pro 100 setting.  Echo made sure to mention that I needed to pay attention to tell her about it later, and I have a feeling this is a common problem - the first few minutes seemed light on lights and heavy on sounds, and I have no idea if it ran really long, or if I fell asleep during it, or what.   Thinking back on it, this seems to be a recurring thing when we use the Nova Pro 100.  It’s not every time, but especially on longer settings, I don’t really remember a whole lot of it.  The audio track ran out and she kept talking to me - about that time I was more aware that things were being said but I’m fuzzy as to what they are.

I’ve probably made this analogy before, but most of the time we use the Nova Pro, it’s sort of like walking in sand while dragging a broom behind you.  There are a few visible footprints which, right now, you can see - but as you keep walking, they get swept away.   That’s still how today went, with the added change that in the middle, I really had no recall of what was immediately being said to me.  It was all very brief, as far as I know, because I remember sitting there for chunks of it without too much of the specific instructions or inductions, just that something was said.  I assume this is because we’ve done a lot and my head just decided it doesn’t need to know, but for all I know it was instructed.  As I write this Echo is asleep so I can’t very well ask.

I can’t - or rather, won’t - share all the details after the session ended but Echo seemed pretty happy when things finished.  Plus or minus me spending a few moments trying to get her to crack up when I was more on the ball.