Hypnosis Techniques : Fractionation
At the request of sir-with-the-pendulum, (who runs a pretty nice blog and you should go check it out). Fractionation is a beautiful thing, and a fundamental tool that belongs in every hypnotist’s arsenal, erotic or otherwise. It’s very easy to do, produces profound depths of trance, and most importantly – is incredibly fun for both hypnotist and subject.
To begin, you need the following:
A willing hypnotic subject
A hypnotist (any level above “total incompetent” is sufficient)
Time (if you can stop time, you can ignore this requirement)
An induction trigger (optional)
The basic principle of fractionation is simple – you drop the subject into trance, then bring them back up and drop them quickly afterwards. Repeat this process as desired, I usually recommend between three and two hundred times. (I don’t think I’ve ever done more than twenty-five or thirty, my average is around six or eight.)
That’s really all there is to it.
Fractionation works incredibly well because it takes advantage of that window of extreme suggestibility that persists after a person exits the trance state. For a period (from a half-minute to a couple minutes) after exiting trance, dropping them back under is extremely easy and ridiculously effective. Each time you drop them, they go deeper than before. Each time they come up, they come up a little less.
Fractionation is actually a faster way to completely blitz someone’s head than stacking deepeners, as often as not (if not more). You can use an induction trigger to drop them again, but soft and gentle suggestions that they should lean back, relax, let their mind go, and fall back into trance are also effective. After three or four repetitions in close succession, many subjects will go into trance again with almost no provocation at all – I’ve used moving my hand in a slow downward motion, slowly lowering the speed and tone of my voice, and even used random words in the same tone and inflection that I use to say “Sleep.”
In particular, there is a thin moment when they are just pulling their brain back together that is beautiful, a point when they’re just putting all the jigsaw pieces into place and aren’t really “on” again, yet. If you catch them during that thin window and hit them perfectly to drop them back under right when they’ve almost got themselves back, they scatter all to pieces and just plunge deep again. Study your subject, and you’ll find it in that moment just when comprehension is just starting to dawn on their face again. It’s a beautiful thing, and I love it.
After they’ve been fractionated a few times, most subjects are visibly disoriented when they come up. They look and sound “trancey”, and they are almost as suggestible as they were when they were deep in trance. The more times you take them up and then down again, the more fixated on your voice they become and the more responsive they are to suggestion. Before long, you’ll see that even when they come “up”, they’re still hypnotized.
Fractionation also appears to aid hypnotic conditioning. I always layer suggestions to go deeper every time, to go into trance more easily, and to respond more quickly and powerfully. I see a lasting, marked increase in how easily someone goes into trance and how well they respond after an fractionation session. My hypothesis is that high degrees of fractionation act as a very effective tool for hypnotic conditioning, even in the absence of other methods. I don’t have a wide enough sample size to say conclusively, I’d need input from other hypnotists and their subjects.
Don’t be surprised when it takes your subject a long time to come all the back to themselves after a session of intense fractionation. Their mind seems to be waiting to be dropped again, and is particularly reluctant to come all the way back up. It’s hard to blame them, being dropped so many times is a euphoric sensation. Give your subject the time they need to come back to themselves, or use visualization (like gathering all the pieces of their mind and putting them back together) to speed the process. They will continue to be in a highly suggestible state for a while, but they’ll be alright with you there to tell them how much you enjoyed watching them go under again and again and again….
That’s really all there is to it. Drop your subject, take them deep, pull them up, drop them right back down, take them even deeper, rinse, repeat. It’s a simple and fundamental tool that belongs in every hypnotist’s toy box.
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