MONTHLY HYPNOTIC WRITING BUNDLE
January's hypnotic writing bundle is now available.
This month focuses on the basics of hypnosis, structure, what trance feels like, and safety. These are fundemental steps into real trance and scenes that should be discussed before we get into the fun stuff~ In the following months, we will be using the content and techniques written here to get into specific kinks, play, and more sultry situations.
This bundle contains the early-access written hypnosis material scheduled for public release next month, compiled into a single drop for patrons to view and observe at their own leisure.
WHAT THIS IS:
A curated collection of hypnotic writing experiments, fragments, and finalized pieces created over the last month.
Idea's presented in these writings may either be standalone ideas, previous works, or seeds for future videos and content work.
Enjoy,
Dreddy~
Day 1/365:
Happy new year! I wanted to start by saying thank you. This past year was about deepening my understanding of hypnosis, content creation, and figuring out what actually feels like me. I’m grateful for the space to learn openly, and for the people I’ve gotten to meet along the way. This year, I’m committing to daily posts exploring hypnosis. From fundamentals to personal experience, kink, and technique. Sharing what I’ve experienced firsthand, along with concepts that stood out to me over the last year.
Day 2/365: What is hypnosis?
To me, hypnosis is guided attention. Introducing ideas, shaping expectation, and letting the mind do what it already does naturally. Predict, fill gaps, and respond before conscious effort kicks in. When directing attention, suggestions often feels automatic.
Day 3/365: An example
(This example is based on the threads system of social media. While the same example is not as potent here due to not having a 'thread' to click, open, and follow with active participation, I'd encourage you to imagine how each paragraph is an active decision to continue reading.)
Let's notice how easily attention starts to move on its own. Introduce an idea, repeat it enough to form a pattern, and let you anticipate what’s next. Your brain fills the gaps on its own. The magic is not being told to look for a pattern.
It’s that your mind wants to complete it before you even notice you’re doing it. For example, following this thread down. Part of you conciously chose to continue reading this, while another subconcious part may have continued simply because it felt natural to continue reading. It's what you do.
Something as small as an emoji carries suggestion before you think about it. Meaning and feeling arrive first, subconciously. Explanation comes later, conciously. Suggestions exist everywhere in daily life, especially so here. Go on.
And again. This time aware of what’s happening, and still choosing to continue. Mixing what was your idea, and what ideas we're used to guide you. As a way to engineer your attention.
Day 4/365: Trance & Lucidity
Trance isn’t just losing control or going blank. It happens when your attention prioritizes a focal point, such as suggestions from self-guidance, hypnotic content, or a partner in a session. They don't 'put' you in trance, instead it emerges with aligned call & response.
As an idea is given, you react. If your reaction aligns with the idea, something changes. Your breath slows. Warmth spreads in your chest. Your body feels heavy / unwilling to move. The urge to continue presented patterns increase. Shifts from baseline that are indicators of trance occurring.
Day 5/365: Hypnosis safety
Hypnosis safety is foundational to any fun and engaging play between a hypnotist and subject. While hypnotism can often feel fun in the 'exciting' (letting someone mess around with your thoughts) way, understanding what is and isn't good safety practise is still incredibly important.
For subjects: While trance can feel automatic, the leading of your attention into suggestions and reactions, that pattern can and should be interrupted if discomfort arises at any point. You can speak, move, resist, or stop at any point, and you always have the right and ability to do so.
You are allowed to reject, dismiss, and decline any suggestion, for any reason, at any time, without owing an explanation. Your main responsibility in hypno safety is to advocate for your comfort, and a healthy partner in any session should reciprocate that actively and positvely.
Hypnotists that you want to have sessions with will both support agency, and also make sure you're in a good state together before a session starts. Everyone's mental states vary in moments, so checking in before hand is important to any form of kink play, including hypnosis.
Not being ready for a session for any reason, is reason enough not to engage with it, through no fault of your own as a subject. Likewise, pre-informed consent, pre-talk, and clear expectations of a scene often allows for anticipation to make it more exciting, not less.
Day 6/365: Hypnotist Safety
Safety for hypnotists is many of the same points as subjects. Pre-informed consent, emotional and mental check-ins before play, and the rolling right to pause or end a scene at any time where discomfort arises. It also involves knowing how to safely handle a transferrence of power.
Pre-talk: Clearly setting expectations for themes, limits, and structure is essential. Reducing risk makes sessions safe and enjoyable. Both parties being emotionally and mentally available matters. A session shouldn’t begin until both people understand the scene and agree to it.
During Session: While your scene is important, so is your subject. Watching things like their breathing, responsiveness, and tone are crucial. If anything feels off, a simple check-in during session gives both you and your subject confidence to continue, and doesn't interrupt the scene.
If your subject visibly shows discomfort, expresses concern that can't be addressed safely during trance, or ab-reacts, dropping the roles of tist and subject and caring for them as a person is mandatory. Ground them, talk them through rising back up out of a scene, and be present for them.
Aftercare: A change in your tone from hypnotist to a friend in the room, and asking questions about a scene help your subject have authorship over their session as well. Did they enjoy themselves? Was there a special moment? Did anything bother them, but not enough to pause play? Ask questions!
Take care of yourself too. Being a tist can be just as intense as being a subject. After a session, check in with yourself. If you need company or quality time, this is just as important for you as it is for your play partner. Don't be afraid to ask.
Finally, you are allowed to stop sessions as well, for any reason, at any time, without owing an explanation. Not feeling confident to continue, or feeling discomfort, take care to bring your subject out of a session, and then end play. Consent in a session goes both ways, always.
Day 7/365: Hypnosis Structure
Today's post will keep it quick and focus on the hypnotists perspective, and expand on each point in later days. Pre-talk: Where all sessions start. Consent, limits, themes, and expectations. Making sure both parties know what their experience should* look like (more on this later).
Induction: Asking your subject to get comfy, and invite them to listen to your voice. This can look like alot of things, but generally having them sit somewhere safe and where they won't be bothered for the duration of your shared session. Offering suggestions that allow them to relax.
Deepener: Although optional, a deepener can act as a clear mental bridge to further feel the effects of trance. A direction of sorts!🥤
Suggesting that, should they feel themselves growing more relaxed, that they can continue to feel that more. Counting down. Staircase Imagery. Etc.
Working Phase: Where your invitation to feel the effects of trance can become apparent to your subject. Examples of this include the ever popular trigger conditioning, scene-play, hypnotic practises like conditional paralysis or out of body experiences. This varies from session to session.
Awakener: Guiding your subject out of trance. Important topics: letting the effects of suggestions fade, triggers or conditioning not being freely usable out of trance or without consent, encouraging a return of agency and sense of self-autonomy. Letting your subject wake up at their own pace.
Aftercare: Finally (and as mentioned in previous days), the roles of hypnotist and subject end. Support your play-partner, ask them how their session felt, what was good, what could have been better, and how to better facilitate their experience in their future.
Day 8/365: Subject Structure
Important distinction! a subject is not the same as a submissive! Hypnosis is about inviting participation, not automatic transfer of authority. Kink can overlaps hypnosis, but is not assumed. Ethical hypnosis mandates consent and revocability, not pressure or role expectations.
Pre-talk: Your voice matters. Some are curious about identity, roles, and shifts in purpose. Some enjoy the relief of losing a name to gain a designation. Some crave being reduced to something simpler. Some want NOTHING more. Your session only begins with the questions you ask.
What's important is discussing clearly beforehand what your expectations for the session are. In the same way that there are both things you do and don't want to do, sometimes there's things that your hypnotist can't or won't do, and that's okay! Communication is key.
Induction: Once comfortable, you may begin to feel common indicators of trance: Feeling more relaxed or 'focused'. Noticing your body growing heavier or still. Becoming more aware of your hypnotists voice and your own internal dialogue. Following suggestions is always optional.
Deepener: Deepeners don't induce trance, but affirm that it may have started already. If you notice yourself relaxing, that can continue. Each number marks a descent that has already started. Nothing new needs to happen for these to work. If you choose to, you can simply let them happen.
Work Phase: This is where your attention is utilized! Nothing new is added here; what exists is repeated, reinforced, or shaped. techniques such as conditioning, affirmations, and imagery are used to guide attention and responses toward previously discussed goals. (More on these later)
Awakener: And afterwards, attention is guided back to its usual range. Your alertness increasing. Physical movement being encouraged gently, becoming easier each moment. Internal dialogue returning to self-autonomy. Letting feelings in session fade, becoming a memory to freely keep or discard.
Aftercare: By now, everything should feel like you again. You may still notice lingering feelings of relaxation, calmness, emotional sensitivity, or fatigue. That's normal! Take this time to handle personal needs (water, stretching, etc.) and discuss with your partner when ready.
After care is where you discuss how the session felt for the both of you. That expectations and resultant experience were aligned, and what made it feel special. When communication is open, expressive, and without judgement, future sessions are made more positive.
Day 9/365: Additional safety notes
I said I'd come back to things later! It's later! Conditioning: Essentially the practise of association, a response that exists is paired with a cue. The ever notorious clicker, the mention of triggers, or physical stimuli re-surfacing familiar sensations.
A desired response, once experienced (usually during our Working Phase!) is then reinforced through the pairing with some form of external or internal stimuli, be it positive or otherwise. An idea: Linking physical phantom sense of a dog tail, ears, muzzle, and paws, to the sound of a clicker.
Sensation is experienced. (feeling like a dog) Cue is introduced while that sensation is present. (the sound of a clicker) Repetition of cue becomes associated with the sensation. (the clicker recalls that trance state) Cue then can evoke aspects of the sensation. (Clicker = Dog) Pavlovian!
Conditioned cues should always be bounded: Examples: Only functioning with the person who introduced them Only working in spaces the subject considers safe and private Only having effect during trance, remaining meaningless otherwise Limits prevent unintended activation. Find suitable bounds!
Different people respond to different modalities. Some respond more strongly to visual cues than auditory ones. Others associate physical sensation with a mental state more easily. For example, in our dog scenario, a physical sensation like a collar may be used to reinforce a mental headspace.
What matters is that cues are discussed, agreed upon, and constrained beforehand. Cues do not override context. If a response to a cue would be inappropriate, uncomfortable, coerced, or from a unknown source (whether intentional or not!), the correct outcome is no response.
Day 10/365: Affirmations
Affirmations, different from conditioning, work to affirm a guided feeling or sensation, rather then associate and reinforce it to a cue! An affirmation introduces a thought in a way that is easy to accept, ignore, or set aside. If it fits, it settles. If it doesn’t, it won't stick.
I feel calm. I notice my body relaxing. I can let this feeling continue. They name what’s happening, rather than demanding something new happen. If this feeling is something you enjoy, it may continue. If you feel that warmth in your chest, you can let it spread throughout you. etc.
Affirmations work to answer the question 'Am I in trance?' or 'Is this having an effect on me?' If it is, then great! The feelings being affirmed continue and grow confidence in the session. If not, that's okay! non-response to an affirmation is expected if it doesn't resonate with you.
As a subject, communicating that an affirmation didn't have a perceivable effect helps your hypnotist adjust to something that might! As a hypnotist, a swap in modality may help. invoking imagery, physical sensation, or attention to their thoughts, dont just try one thing.
Day 11/365: Imagery
Imagery is a personal favorite of mine. It's a lot of the work I do in video form! Invoking the sense of an object, a setting, a feeling in someone's mind through conveying information. This is as close to “telepathy” as language ever gets (probably), so let's talk about it!
Imagery isn't just making your subject 'see pictures', it's about forming a structure of thought for them to fill in using descriptive language. The important part is that effective imagery is specific, but often incomplete. This lets your subjects mind fill in blanks in a way that feels natural!
When you over-specify, you leave little room for questions that otherwise encourage trance. “you might notice the sense of an object resting in front of you.” Questions: What kind of object? Where is 'in front'? Why is it there? All attention being honed in your suggested direction.
Additionally, work in patterns! A rule of three: You may notice a warmth that centers right where a tail should be. one that grows in strength, just as the length of that tail does, moment by moment. A tail covered in fur, patterned rings and spots adorning each and every hair CONT.
A tail that when you try, you may feel swish side to side through the air A playful movement accompanied by the coloured tip of it hovering on each stroke An appendage that now feels part of you, like it was always there, like it was never not part of you. Forming a pattern sets expectation.
Patterns reward your subjects mind by allowing them to wonder what comes next, and then resolving their attention with an answer through your own voice, over and over, again and again. By giving them the task of wondering what you'll describe their focus as, you guide them.
Day 12/365: Expectations
When a session starts, you should mostly (we said we’d come back to this) know what it’s going to feel like and what its contents will be. Pre-talk states a range in which a session can fall. Sometimes it’s possible to land at the far edges of that range, or outside of it entirely.
Sometimes expectations aren’t quite met. Sensations don’t land strongly. Imagery stays faint. Responses feel weaker than anticipated. Sometimes the idea discussed beforehand don't land in the actual experience. If a session isn't having the effect desired, it's okay to pause or end it.
Sometimes expectations are exceeded. Feelings intensify faster than expected. Roles feel heavier. Imagery or identity work lands deeper than planned. If a scene becomes 'too much', and emotions reach a peak, take time to check in, and make sure both parties are still comfortable continuing.
And sometimes, consensually, a session goes somewhere else. A new theme emerges. Curiosity pulls attention in an unplanned direction. Exploration is allowed when it’s mutual and intentional. When offered as a new direction with consent, a session can openly deviate from the original plan.
Finally, sometimes a session moves in a direction you don’t like. As a hypnotist, you may notice signs of concern or distress. As a subject, the ideas or sensations may begin to feel too intense. What's important is that consent is continous, and revocable. if needed, it is always okay to stop.
A session starting or ending differently than discussed on paper can be okay. The goal is not perfect adherence to notes. The goal is an shared experience between tist and subject that benefits both. Check-ins, consent, and communication are what make exploring safe.
Day 13/365: Trance Variability
Depth of trance, or 'effectiveness' can be determined by a lot of factors! Just like any other experience, your emotional, mental, and physical state can greatly alter trance, as well as trust, novelty, and expectation. It also varies from person to person!
The first steps: Sleep, stress, mood, health all play an important part in how trance feels. If you are in a state where it is difficult to regulate your emotions, be it from fatigue or heightened sensitivity, trance can vary from either being flat to overwhelming.
Additionally, If a experience is mundane to you, doesnt meet your expectations, or comes from a source that you can't freely allow to invite you into a trance, these all may pose as hurdles into enjoying a session. Finding something novel, exciting, and within a safe structure is important!
Above all, sometimes there isn't a single definitive reason a session may feel dull or overly intense. Emotions can rise that we don't expect only until actively participating in a session, and that's okay! Hypnois can be inconsistent for the same person, day to day.
Day 14/365: Quick Myths
Quick myths! "Not everyone can be hypnotized" Anyone who can imagine and be absorbed into something can experience trance. That doesn't mean every session works the same way, or that the experience of trance will be the same.
"Hypnosis requires consent to happen" Trance state can happen outside of the structure discussed so far, even in ways you may not expect. (More on this later) Some red flags: bypassing pre-talk discouraging pauses reframing distress as proof of effect inducing amnesia in and out of session etc.
“If I’m asking questions or being active, I’m not in trance.” Thinking, talking, questioning, and interacting can all occur within trance. Engagement does not cancel absorption. Rather, for some people participation deepens focus by rewarding attention rather than breaking it.
Hypnosis myths aren’t wrong because they’re false. They’re wrong because they’re oversimplified, and often binary. Hypnosis exists on a spectrum. So do attention, responsiveness, and experience. Understanding that range makes sessions safer, more flexible, and more honest.
Day 15/365: After Effects
After Effects (not the Adobe kind) of trance! Mentioned earlier when talking about aftercare, lingering effects after a session are normal. Lowered emotional inhibition, fatigue, and a sense of mental quiet, where chain of thought may take time to return are all common experiences.
Some people notice the inverse. Increased enjoyment of activities, elevated energy, or a feeling of mental clarity can also occur. Both ranges of experience are normal. Time distortion is common as well. Short sessions may feel longer to both subject and hypnotist.
Lingering effects usually pass by themselves shortly after a session, not unlike the hazy feeling of waking up from a nap. Should, they linger longer than desired, light stretching, gentle breathing, hydration, food, or a short walk are often enough. Grounding activities routed in common routine.
As always, approach the post-session period as partners rather than hypnotist and subject. Asking questions, checking in, and making sure the experience felt positive for both people helps each other return to baseline from previously adopted roles.
Day 16/365: Self Guidance
Self Guidance! Although this has a few meanings, the one I want to focus on is the literal interpretation of the wording, the ability to guide one self (through trance). Having a stable understanding of what trance feels like for oneself is a good safety mechanism to have!
If you can learn to notice how your body begins to feel when: Your breathing slows Your attention draws inwards You begin to accept suggestions offered to you this acts to provide you with confidence in two things, that trance may be occuring, and you are in a stable state to interact with it.
This also helps you to guide yourself further into your session, or out of it. Trusting oneself to understand and accept guidance allows you to let it affect you further. Knowing the experience of awakening reduces friction in coming back up from trance, and dispelling lingering effects.
Self guidance isn't a forced action that must take place to work, but more having clarity in choosing how to respond to already present suggestions and stimuli in a safe, and self agentic manner where appropriate.
Day 17/365: Safe Words
Safe words are a direct topic, not because they aren't without their nuance, but because they are a topic that works when discussed individually based on your partner and scene. Safe words may be reinforced over time, but they must always function without reliance on conditioning.
Safe words should be: Wording that has only one meaning, and separate from scene language. Should immediately pause, or end a session. Reasoning is left to after the session ends, not during. If speech may be difficult, pre-agreed non-verbal signals should be established in advance.
Safe words must be agreed on beforehand, and must never be punished. Knowing when a scene needs to end is part of pre-talk, knowing that it being used is not something to feel guilty about is part of experience.
Having clear wording for both affirming or rejecting any suggestion is important too! Simple “yes” and “no” responses give quick affirmation or refusal without breaking flow. These words should always be available, regardless of depth, and never treated as interruptions unless desired.
Having easily accessible words encourage safety for: The subject to speak when needed. The hypnotist to know there will be communication should an issue arise. To reduce friction in by reducing ambiguity, what safety wording sounds like clearly, and what is still play.
Day 18/365: Abreaction
Abreactions are an emotional release that can occur during / after trance. This can occur due to the lowered inhibtions of being in trance, where emotions are less filtered and rise to the surface. Abreactions are okay, they happen! It is important to know how to approach them.
This can look like: - Crying or laughing - Sudden sadness, or a sense of relief - Physical twitching, shaking, or convulsions - Feeling overwhelmed, including periods of non-verbal stages Some of these can allow for a continuation of trance, while some should warrant stopping a scene.
In general: If an abreaction is minor, a simple check in can suffice. A twitch of the body / a small giggle, simply ask if it's a feeling that is okay with them, and if they'd like to continue. Major, like crying, or full body shakes, an immediate decision to pause session is always recommended.
Grounding, reassurance, hydration, rest helps bring things back together after an abreaction. Guidance of after care applies here. It's important to talk with your subject, understand if able if they may understand their reaction, and decide together to pause or continue.
Day 19/365: Big Hyp-NoNo's
(This list is directly lifted from a fairly popular, digestible guide on red and beige flags to look out for in both hypnotists and subjects, thanks to vhreali on bluesky for the only source I can find for these!): Subject No No's:
In a rush: Subjects who try to get trance from every tist they talk to are more likely to be undiscerning. This can be an issue if what you deliver does not match what they imagine trance to be. It can also erode your mojo and enjoyement of the hobby.
Limited Engagement: Does the subject only appear in hypnosis requests, with regularly repeated posts looking for "total brainwashing"? This is treating tists like trance dispensers and shows unrealistic expectations.
Willfully Naive: Subjects who are not interested in finding out about hypnosis themselves put both of you at risk when something unexpected occurs. If they have no knowledge, it's all unexpected!
No Limits: Subjects who state that they have no limits are opening themselves and the tist up to serious misunderstandings or consent issues. It is not possible to fully negotiate with a subject who is not aware of themselves or basic practical concerns.l
Demands Domination: Many subjects are interested in a D/s dynamic in hypnosis. However, some do not recognise that not all tists desire or consent to this type of play.
Dishonesty: Undisclosed psychiatric, medical or mental health conditions impair the level to which fully-informed consent can be entered into. Tists need to now what risks they are taking and how, or if, to adapt.
Only Talks Hypno: "Getting to know you" should be as a whole person, not just a trance provider. If the subject only talks about hypno or play when chatting, it is more likely that difficulties will occur and they may not be interested in finding solutions.
The Blame Game: If a subject does not try to develop agency, or has unrealistic expectations about rance and tists. Problems can be seen as the sole fault of the tist.
Day 20/365: HypNoNo's (For hypnotists)
(Continued list of some red and beige flags to look out for, but as a subject looking towards hypnotists.)
Targets a Type: Predators tend to target the vulnerable, caring and available. Appearing overly sympathetic before they know you, telling you sob stories of "crazy" or "needy" former partners or only talking to singles is a common pattern
Limited Engagement: Does the tist only come to request hypnosis sessions? if they only come through social places to find more subjects, they may be suspect.
Becomes Angry: If questioning their approach, the terms of play or not being available when they want makes them angry, it may be a sign of a one-way dynamic that is not healthy.
Demands Submission: Many predators wrongly equate being a subject with being submissive. They may target you submitting and obeying without ever negotiating a D/s dynamic.
Poor Negation: Tists who don't negotiote should be avoided. Even CNC involves some negotiation. The tist should regularly check for enthusiastic consent, including during trance. Tists should never; try to change your limits ("negotiate up") during trance.
Only Talks Hypno: "Getting to know you" should be as a whole person, not just a subject. If the tist only talks about hypno or play when chatting, it is more likely that difficulties will occur. They see you as replaceable and may not be interested in solutions.
Demands Exclusivity: An early red flag is the tist insisting you cut off contact with other tists or even other subjects or sections of the community. Having only 1 tist is fine, isolating you is not.
The Fast Chase: On non hook-up sites, there are far more subs then tists. if a tist is chasing you quickly and urgently, it may be beneficial to ask yourself why.
Day 21/365: ADHD / Anxiety / Aphantasia
Hypnosis is a unique individual experience, and one that is perceived differently from person to person. When handling hypnosis with things like ADHD / Anxiety / Anphantasia / other conditions, sometimes the way that we experience trance can be affected! Heres some tips:
ADHD: If deep attention is a thing that your subject struggles with, altering your induction / trance can be beneficial! Instead of common relation inductions, looking at either more explicity worded ones (instruction is clear and immediate) or engaging ones such as conversational hypnosis!
Anxiety: Anxiety can be framed as anticipatory tension. Where attention is often inward and reactive already, trance may form too fast for a subject, creating panic or worry. Predictability and restated opt-outs / safeties while re-affirming that you're here for their session can be key.
Anphantasia: Some hypno encourages mental imagery to work as a focal exercise, as well as sensation. For those struggle or can't do this: Modality! talk about the feeling of what you're describing, rather then the visual properties Technique! Focus on hypnotic technique, overload, fixations, etc.
What works for some subjects may not work for others, it's always important to talk and communicate beforehand what techniques you may struggle with, and what ones work best for you. Conditions are things to be worked with rather then disregarded.
Day 22/365: Ethical Domination
Hey do you want to dominate your sub, do you want to make them your petttt~? Then hey! Listen up! Power is contextual! Obedience is offered! While loving the idea of taking power and control is wonderful, understanding how to have it given up freely also rocks!
When your subject (submissive in this case!) voluntarily alllows themselves to be vulnerable, they relax because they trust the frame of the scene. When there's no hesitation or friction in saying 'yes' / 'please' / 'more', it's because there is trust in the scene being aligned with their desires.
Which is to say, dominance that's safe to lean into, even when exploring edge kink (again, RACK!) does so because it is bounded and intentional. When your sub knows you're intentions are to have a good experience / session, it's much easier for them to want to relent into you.
Day 23/365: Subspace
Subspace is a temporary, induced, altered state of mind that can emerge due to arousal, focus, or even stress. Sounds a bit like trance right? in subspace, a sub may feel - floaty or heavy - emotionally open or euphoric - less verbal (even mute!) - slow to process decisions
subspace can be engaged with both positively and negatively, and should be handled with care! subspace can feel euphoric, where submission feels natural, and inhabiting the role in a scene feels aligned. However it can also impair negotiation, with agency taking a back seat mentally.
After subspace, sub drop is also something to be cognitantly aware of. Melancholy and fatigue are all things to make sure to have in mind that can be experienced, make sure part of your after care for any intense session involves care, consideration, and even some cuddles!
Day 24/365: Time Dilation
I think anyone who has had a hypnotic experience can attest to is the feeling of time dilation when in trance, or when doing a session! Ever listen to a file that felt like hours, but was only minutes? Or a session that felt like only a moment, but 'woke up' hours later?
Playing with this phenomena can be a ton of fun! intruiging your subject as to how long they think they've been in tance as a form of fractionation, reminding them of their surroundings only to drop them back down. Or compressing an experience, reminding them of every minute thats passed
You can even remove a sense of time completely, working backwards through your trance structure, reminding them of previous points before moving onwards over and over, dulling a linear path of trance. Natural phenomena can be influenced to create even more potent scenes!
Day 25/365: Modalities
Modalities! Borrowed from ScratchPupper! Examples of tying imagery to experience: Visual (sight)- Waves and sea foam washing up on a beach. Auditory (sound)- The sound of those waves rushing softly. Kinesthetic (touch)- The sand beneath your feet, the water brushing your ankles.
Olfactory (scent)- The scent of the sea-breeze and the tide. Gustatory (taste)- Tasting the salt on the air. Tying the the main sensory experiences to your imagery is strong way to invoke your scenes, but also structure them! Try walking a scene through the 5 senses!
Day 26/365: Overload
Overload, while not entirely seperate from confusion, using multiple sensations, invoked imagery, or thoughts, to make it difficult to focus on one point, while honing attention into the challenge of keeping up with what is being supplied and suggested! Too much? Then sink instead.
Giving the brain too many things to think about, it struggles to keep up. Giving a simple to follow, clear command can quickly seem like the correct choice, even if suggested by an exterior voice. You play on both drowning out surroundings, and then offering a clear solution.
Day 27/365: Confusion
Confusion is about subverting a set expectation of what could happen. "But what if they firmly grabbed your hand, said nothing, held eye contact a little too long then firmly pulled you towards them. Well, if they said “Sink” as they caught you in their arms, you might just do that."
Interrupting the natural, thoughtless pattern of mundane interactions can quickly send your mind into uncharted territory, where it searches for an immediate resolution to 'return normalcy'. If the resolution is from an exterior influence, so be it.
Day 28/365: Avolition
Perhaps part of subspace & trance state, avolition is the reduction in felt urge to initiate action. not an inability or removal of desire, but simply the dulled internal push to do so. 'You could move if you wanted to, but you may find it simpler to simply stay simple and still.'
Avolition can feel deeply calming, like a floating sensation where no action or obligation is required. Being careful with this state, where your suggestions as a hypnotist are gentle, patient, and in the subjects time can be important to have them be received effectively.
Day 29/365: Fixations
Fixations of all kinds! Stopwatches, fingers, metronomes, eyes, visors, spirals, lighters and candles, and so much more! Although these are all visual fixations, and others do exist such as auditory ones (clickers), they can be a fun, direct focus for attention!
Hovering an object in front of ones face, asking them to focus on it, and then capturing that focus into the objects movement can work to center attention inwards like previously described. Then moving that finger down, quickly or slowly can interrupt the established pattern (Confusion!)
Eyes can act as an intense focal point, where implied (or very real) dedication of your hypnotists attention on you can make it hard not to focus on them! A metronome, in contrast can be much more ambient, where a simple pattern makes surroundings predictable, and therefore non-interrupting.
Many different Fixations can have different effects, though a common string is how they lower the attention given to outside thoughts and surroundings, and draw attention inwards towards themselves or the user of them.
Day 30/365: Safety Wrap up
Some final safety notes: Some consent acronyms exist around the internet and are helpful ways to remember and also express key points of consent. some examples are:
FRIES: - Freely Given (not obtained via coercion in any form) - Reversible (Can be revoked at any time) - Informed (Knowing what is being consented to) - Enthusiastic (Express interest in subject being consented to) - Specific (No ambiguity in consenting topics) Theres also:
RACK: Risk-Aware Consensual Kink While FRIES discusses the explicit nature of consent, RACK aims to acknowledge that many kinks and scenes do involve real risks, and that the participants of it understand and accept those risks, strivnig to manage them to promote a safe scene and play.
Headspaces: Although discussed previously in terms of 'trance' space, headspaces is a broader BDSM term meant to acknowledge the feeling of reduced inhibtions, increased energy, or otherwise any deviation from baseline emotions that may alter how you answer and accept risk and play.
Headspaces show up for both Dominants and Submissives in kink, and can be the highs of active play, where euphoria clouds judgement and heightens emotion. It can also be the lows of post-play, drops in feelings occur, sadness, guilt, or shame. Support your partners after scenes with aftercare!
Overall, while hypnosis is only kink in itself, it shares a lot of good common practise with it, and the larger BDSM scene. To be a safe, attentive, and curteous partner in play is a fundemental leap to being a good subject OR hypnotist.
Day 31/365: A quick break
Good job for getting this far! There's more topics on safety to cover later, but for now, congrats! hopefully there's enough info here now to understand what subject and hypnotist safety look like, general trance structure and expectations, and how to want more!