Does anyone have any experience being hypnotised?

[mousberry]

And even though we're on an erotica forum I don't mean it as a fetish.

I mean like actual hypnosis with a professional. I have been reading about it and I am very curious to try it out but I'm still quite suspicious and cautious. It sounds almost too good to be true.

 

[ElvieG]

I was hypnotised about 10 years ago, but other than saying that it's very effective, I can't explain how it works, but it really does.

At the time, I was working twelve hour shifts with only a couple of very short breaks. A lot of my colleagues smoked, and before long, I was addicted to smoking too. After standing outside in the rain a few times too many so I could smoke, I saw an advert in a local paper for a hypnotist and decided to give it a try.

The hypnotist was a middle aged woman working out of her own home. She asked me what I hoped to achieve through hypnotism, then had me sit in an armchair on one side of the room while she sat ten feet away, facing me. There was a large clock on the wall above her. She asked me if I was comfortable, then told me to put my hands in my lap, look straight at the clock and listen to her voice. I don't remember anything else.

After the session was over, I got into my car and drove off feeling a little strange. An hour later, I went outside and smoked half a cigarette before I realised I was doing it. I phoned the hypnotist and told her what I'd done, expecting her to make excuses or ask me to book another session, but she just said that if I was sincere about wanting to stop smoking, it would happen. I continued smoking on my breaks at work for maybe a week then just stopped without even trying.

 

[Britva415]

And even though we're on an erotica forum I don't mean it as a fetish.

I mean like actual hypnosis with a professional. I have been reading about it and I am very curious to try it out but I'm still quite suspicious and cautious. It sounds almost too good to be true.

What kind of "professional" are you talking about?

Like, a hypnotherapist? Or an entertainer? What's your goal/agenda here?

 

[pilotguy123]

Yeah I went to a Derren Brown show where he attempted to hypnotise the audience. It worked on me but no one else around me

 

[mousberry]

What kind of "professional" are you talking about?

Like, a hypnotherapist? Or an entertainer? What's your goal/agenda here?

Like how the poster above described. I don't have a specific goal other than satisfying curiosity. I grew up thinking it was kooky stage entertainment but the more I read about it the more real and the scarier it seems. I just have no idea how far it really goes. Can a skilled hypnotist really just get talking to you and put you to sleep and put silly ideas in your head? From what I've seen it's only a small minority who are very vulnerable to this type but still I just can't believe that it's possible.

I think I also have a certain anxiety over control and free will and all that. The overlap between hypnosis and media like advertising and tiktok reels is also interesting to me. I'm still quite ignorant on the topic so I dont really know but some of these videos can be so mesmerising. I don't suppose that people are fully being hypnotised. More of a low grade trance to suck you in.

 

[ThePiper146]

Uhm, not really answering the question but:
I learnt to hypnotise people a long time ago.
Does it work? Yes, I do believe it does. I once told someone his arms were stuck to the table and then left him to try to lift his arms. It distressed him so much that I had to release him and that started me questioning my reasons for doing it.
I did manage to help someone retrieve a memory from a long time previous and that was a good feeling.
One silly story. A friend asked me to regress him to the age of four. I said I would try and the result I got back was interesting. At age 4 his family had moved into a new home and in a four year old voice he said he liked the new house, because the windows were low enough for him to look out of.
A couple of really strange things happened that worried me so I quit. Peoples minds are their own property and should not be fooled with.

And a reply to Pilotguy123: If you are susceptible, you will go under but if you aren't susceptible/afraid/whatever it won't happen. It is a mixed bag and I failed to hypnotise people regularly

 

[mousberry]

Uhm, not really answering the question but:
I learnt to hypnotise people a long time ago.
Does it work? Yes, I do believe it does. I once told someone his arms were stuck to the table and then left him to try to lift his arms. It distressed

Ah thank you this is super interesting. It is really bizarre and terrifying to think about if the wrong person was able to use it. And like I believe you but how is that possible that you can make a persons hands stick to a table?!?! It melts my brain. It goes against every understanding I had of the mind and free will etc it's hard to comprehend.

 

[ThePiper146]

The short answer to that is that I really do not know.
The mind is such an incredibly powerful organism but it can get fooled into believing things that aren't really there or muscles that are not longer controllable. Like hallucinations. People who take drugs end up seeing all sorts of things and reacting in bizarre ways.
A friend of mine took Ecstasy and afterwards, he said he could see his cigarette waving around, but he just could not see the hand that was holding it.
But really and truly? I do not know. I just saw the effect my words/commands had on the guy and the distress it caused him. He was not kidding. He literally could not move his arms. It was awful.

 

[mousberry]

Like hallucinations. People who take drugs end up seeing all sorts of things and reacting in bizarre ways.
A friend of mine took Ecstasy and afterwards, he said he could see his cigarette waving around, but he just could not see the hand that was

I would never do it now but last year I took a lot of LSD and I think those habits and vulnerabilities are made so much more extreme on it. Like if somebody would just say the word "car" to me I would fall into a lose myself in mind loop thinking about cars just like that. After when I was sober I could look back and it didn't exactly change the way I thought about this but it just made it more simple and brutal if that makes sense. I was so much more susceptible to mind loops.

I also remember taking out my phone and I'd see a web page and it would literally become my entire reality. Nothing else existed outside of the phone and I was totally absorbed into the screen. And it was a familiar feeling too but again but more extreme.

 

[live4thebj]

Does getting naked with a perfect 10 female who had the sexiest pussy you ever seen in real life that got you to dive face first and eat her for a long time and before then you swore off ever eating pussy again? Then yes.

 

[Pavlovsdog6862]

I’ve done it 3 times . First off you have to want it to work! So no you can’t just make someone kill somebody. You’re also not always in a state of mind to get hypnotized. Of the 3 times I was like your talking ona stage at a state fair ? Twice I clearly was under his influence doing stupid shit! They actually check your pulse a lot during the demonstration and know if your really under or faking

 

[Pavlovsdog6862]

After these my brother in law who had done everything to quit smoking cigarettes, ask me if I was bullshittjng or not and I explained how I really wanted to go under and concentrated on every thing he said . I literally heard everyone laughing but it seemed like I was dreaming

 

[Pavlovsdog6862]

He went to the same guy who has a business in Boston and within a week or so he never smoked again

 

[Pavlovsdog6862]

Reading Elvie g post I see she’s working a lot ! I was as well I believe if your tired your more likely to go under

 

[ChloeOfCascadia]

Uhm, not really answering the question but:
I learnt to hypnotise people a long time ago.
Does it work? Yes, I do believe it does. I once told someone his arms were stuck to the table and then left him to try to lift his arms. It distressed him so much that I had to release him and that started me questioning my reasons for doing it.
I did manage to help someone retrieve a memory from a long time previous and that was a good feeling.
One silly story. A friend asked me to regress him to the age of four. I said I would try and the result I got back was interesting. At age 4 his family had moved into a new home and in a four year old voice he said he liked the new house, because the windows were low enough for him to look out of.
A couple of really strange things happened that worried me so I quit. Peoples minds are their own property and should not be fooled with.

And a reply to Pilotguy123: If you are susceptible, you will go under but if you aren't susceptible/afraid/whatever it won't happen. It is a mixed bag and I failed to hypnotise people regularly

This supports my belief that hypnosis is essentially a placebo.

However, as with any population, for any false phenomenon, for some people, they will insist the placebo really works miracles.

Some people are actually especially vulnerable to the power of suggestion. These people often join religious cults and espouse the power of prayer or miracles, regardless of the actual religion. They claim to have experienced interesting things or have powers that cannot ever be verified or reproduced.

Because the power of suggestion is affecting them on a semi conscious level, they are not aware that they are still in full control of their own bodies.

It's a bit like when you are driving, and realize, you can't remember the last few minutes because your mind was wandering.

But, you can see, you didn't crash your car. Someone was driving, except, you don't remember steering, you just remember you were daydreaming.

Well someone was driving. You, on autopilot.

That's the combination of your conscious mind and your subconscious.

And while your conscious mind is giving inputs, your subconscious is doing all the thinking, on a level of memory and instinct.

When you walk to the kitchen and can't remember why you're there, there's a disconnect between your mind as it is now, and a few seconds ago when you desired something and made the decision to go there.

You were not hypnotized, you made a decision and then forgot the decision, that quickly.

Happens to everyone.

But if you're also very vulnerable to suggestion and outside influence, you can operate as if someone else is controlling you. You made the decision to go along with the "hypnosis" and then immediately forgot you made that decision.

If you were like me and decided, nah, hypnosis is bullshit, it would have absolutely no effect on you, because you'd never make the CONSCIOUS DECISION to go along with it.

And then immediately forget you decided to play along.

So you never are apparently under the spell. Because it's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy here. If I go to a mind reader, the best she's ever going to get from me is I really don't believe she can read my mind, because I'm not going to say anything she can pick up from hidden microphones, I'm not going to give her a look in my wallet, not even to pay, and I won't go to one with a significant other who knows all my secrets and can blab them to her.

Nope. I know all about this crap, so, when she cannot get her information the deceptive way, and she tries cold reading, and I'm aware of all the cold reading techniques and refuse to cooperate, she has nothing.

She can make wild guesses about me based on my appearance, and also, conclude I don't believe in psychics or mind reading, because I know about all her information gathering techniques and I stop them. To prove my point that she actually is a fraud.

A hypnotist understands that their skill doesn't work on almost everyone, ever.

And also, that certain people will still go along with it.

Akin to people who claim to be possessed by devils so priests can give them exorcists. Always exclusively in the religious belief systems where devils exist.

Funny how me, a non-believer, with no god to pray to for protection, no one praying for me, no priests offering me blessings, is never possessed by devils I don't believe exist.

You'd think I'd be the ripest target!

Nah.

You have to believe in demonic possession to ever be "possessed" by "demons"

You have to believe hypnosis is real to ever be hypnotized.

You have to be unaware of how psychics and mind readers gather their info to buy their cold reading crap.

It's just a magic trick, there's nothing supernatural.

It plays on how frail and weak our minds are, and how we don't notice things like sleight of hand, and don't logically deduce that the reason she knows things about me is because her assistant asked me a bunch of questions around a microphone before she "read my mind".

Or you know, if you never tell someone about devils, they'll never be possessed by one.

It's just more stuff that is placebo and imagination. People can think of no rational explanation for what is going on, and that is a failure of their imagination in the one hand, and their "experience" is a triumph of their imagination in the other hand.

You see what you want to see.

If you see an upside down cross, you might think, ah, Satan.

Or, if you might think, ah, the cross of Saint Peter, a very holy and Christian symbol.

Meanwhile I just see a religious symbol that represents a belief system I do not share, and think is false.

Meaning is in the eye of the beholder, and influenced heavily by their beliefs.

 

[mousberry]

This supports my belief that hypnosis is essentially a placebo.

I'm not sure what you mean to be honest.

Hypnosis doesn't necessarily need a willing subject. If you put someone into a sensory deprivation tank, you induce a similar trance like state, because in the absence of any stimulation, your mind becomes hyperactive and hyperfocused on any stimulation at all; in these conditions, because your brain will latch onto any activity, a voice can guide your thoughts incredibly easily, and since you are in a trance state, the conscious mind is unable to object.

That is a very obvious example of hypnosis. You will have experienced a low-grade hypnosis the last time you watched TV— it's the same process of bypassing the conscious mind to feed information into the subconscious without you knowing.

I don't think you need to believe hypnosis to be real at all. The induction process just requires that the defences be down. Of course people who meditate and have good mental discipline will be hard to crack, the same with anyone who is very mistrustful and suspicious, but it really just takes someone who can get your guard down, whether that is a priest, doctor or a "mystic."

 

[Pavlovsdog6862]

Nah I’m a sceptic, and question everything

 

[ThePiper146]

This supports my belief that hypnosis is essentially a placebo.

However, as with any population, for any false phenomenon, for some people, they will insist the placebo really works miracles.

Some people are actually especially vulnerable to the power of suggestion. These people often join religious cults and espouse the power of prayer or miracles, regardless of the actual religion. They claim to have experienced interesting things or have powers that cannot ever be verified or reproduced.

<Snipt>

It could well be a form of placebo.
The placebo effect is fascinating.
Some years ago I attended (by accident) a lecture by an expert on the placebo effect (I got the dates wrong and thought I was going to a lecture on Indian erotic statues.)
The expert quoted a number of placebo effect cases including how they choose the colour of different tablets.
As you (ChloeOfCascadia) say; that is how cults work (paraphrased).
And as I have said before, I did not understand what was I was doing and I got spotty results. I also had some very strange things happen, so I quit.
I have no treasured belief to defend.

 

[Britva415]

Wait till you guys hear about self-hypnosis.