Our furnace kicked off randomly yesterday and we're still waiting for someone to come fix it :( I am cold and exhausted, and I'm not sure how feasible it will be to finish up this week's essay today as my house gets colder! I'm really hopeful it gets fixed ASAP or I can at least set up for work in a way that keeps me relatively warm but like, we...
2024-01-26 15:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back from Charmed! It was very intense and we had a lovely time. Time to get going on a new essay!
"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory systems are complex and have a TON of overlap, but kinesthetic is distinct among our other senses because of how insanely broad it is. Motion, space, emotion, more... What's that mean f...
2024-01-19 17:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostLearning Deep Metaphor by sleepingirl
We incorporate different topics in our trances to add flavor and description to the way a person feels as they’re being hypnotized. We might use the idea of a placid lake to do a long trance, or throw in a short line about someone’s mind being drained out like water in a tub. Metap...
2023-12-22 18:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostOK y'all I got a couple interesting choices for next week's article! One really out there/experimental, and one that's more of my norm, so folks can pick.
Milton Erickson, Torah Study, Intimacy, and Ritual Walk into a Bar…: Those following me on Twitter may know I've been neck-deep in Jewish text study spaces for the pas...
2023-12-15 16:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostPatterns by sleepingirl
A common induction style that people learn early on is the “pattern interrupt” -- usually shown as involving some kind of surprise and shock to the subject that somehow gets them to instantly drop into trance. But like many often-taught techniques, the repetition of this concept from resource to...
2023-11-17 16:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time! cc's birthday is next week so this one may come out in 1.5 weeks but I'm aiming to get it out next Friday as usual :)
"So You Think You Know Pattern Interrupts": What actually IS a pattern? What are the benefits of interrupting it? (Hint: it's REALLY not just for instant inductions!)
"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory sys...
2023-11-10 16:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostPersistent Suggestions by sleepingirl
Giving effective suggestions that feel intense in the moment is a goal that we work towards a lot as erotic hypnotists, but much of the time we are interested in what hypnosis offers outside of a session. Sometimes, it can be difficult to pin down just how to make triggers, post-hypnot...
2023-10-20 20:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Here's the vote for next week's article!
"Stickier Suggestions": Tips and tricks for making suggestions more impactful and long-lasting!
"So You Think You Know Pattern Interrupts": What actually IS a pattern? What are the benefits of interrupting it? (Hint: it's REALLY not just for instant inductions!)
2023-10-13 17:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi, and surprise! I’ve been working on this piece to submit to projectMSMR’s upcoming hypnosis zine and wanted to make sure it was available for y’all here :) It’s partially Frankenstein’d from bits in a few of my other articles, but mostly new written material and presented I think in a much more logical way to get across this one...
2023-09-15 16:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostDepth as a concept is inextricably linked to hypnosis -- the vast majority of us who play are interested in “deep” trances. Even people who take a completely non-state approach to hypnosis often play with concepts that we could think of as related; most would say that the level of intensity, buy-...
2023-08-18 18:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostNext article time! This time around we have:
What is "going deeper?": We use the word "deeper" a lot, and we also understand that it's kind of a metaphorical concept. How can we make it more concrete, effective, immersive, etc -- to ourselves as subjects and to our partners when we're hypnotists?
Developing y...
2023-08-02 18:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostSustaining Trance
Many subjects have issues “staying in trance” when they are hypnotized, especially if they are instructed to do something more active. If they are newer to hypnosis, this can even give the illusion that maybe they weren’t deep enough to begin with or in trance at all. However, there are a ton of fun...
2023-06-30 13:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Here's the poll for the next topic. Interesting stuff...
BTW, this article will come out sometime in the next two weeks -- life is absolutely nuts but I want to get started on it as early as possible and just bang it out as quickly as I am able.
Sustaining Trance: An article talking about a number of con...
2023-06-19 14:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostMindlessness (Personal Essay) by sleepingirl
Mindlessness: The holy grail. The final frontier. The thing that ostensibly seems so simple and guaranteed from being hypnotized, and yet… it ain’t.
Not to start with a little bit of tongue-in-cheek “get off my lawn,” but when I was new to hypnosis, the online envi...
2023-06-02 15:25:57 +0000 UTC View PostWheeeeeeeeeee
- Building Mindlessness (Personal Essay): An essay similar to my "Amnesia" one -- exploring breakthroughs I've made over the years with blankness/mindlessness and how I've gotten pretty good at it
- Building Self-Hypnosis Exercises: An article talking about how you can find your own way...
2023-05-18 17:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostProgressive relaxation inductions (or “PMRs,” for “progressive muscle relaxation”) get a bad reputation. It’s often seen as the mark of a beginner to lead someone through a lengthy process of focusing on their body, piece by piece, to relax it. We find ourselves also having to remind people that relaxation itself isn’t necessary for ...
2023-04-21 15:58:44 +0000 UTC View Post- Progressive Relaxation Inductions (and Deepeners!) that Don't Suck: What it says on the tin, it will be awesome
- Thoughts about Mindlessness (Personal Essay): An essay similar to my "Amnesia" one -- exploring some breakthroughs I've made over the years with blankness/mindlessness
Sorry for the sho...
2023-04-16 21:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostNote: The vast majority of this article was written while in various stages of vestibular migraines(?) which are a “fun” thing I get almost every day now, and they usually make me loopy and occasionally weirdly giddy. It was also finished on under 5hrs of sleep! You can definitely tell, and I think it makes the writing kind of fun and en...
2023-03-09 21:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Here's some options for next week's article:
- Progressive Relaxation Inductions (and Deepeners!) that Don't Suck: What it says on the tin
- Building Trance Vocabulary: Learning how to look for all kinds of subtle signs of trance to develop a fully-fleshed-out trance experience
2023-03-02 17:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post
You can do self hypnosis in 2 minutes
And it will help your hypnotic responsiveness
And you don't have to go into trance
What many of us desire from hypnosis is surrender. It is the allure of letting go -- letting go of the feeling of control over ourselves and our experience. Even when hypnosis is less about submission in an erotic sense, trance itself can feel much more real and intense when we lock into those precious moments of unconscious response and fully t...
2023-02-10 19:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Setting up for the next article :) I've been thinking about a lot of subject-oriented topics lately, so here's a couple potential ideas:
How to Surrender: An exploration of the "sensation" of surrender/submission and how we can allow ourselves to experience it more reliably.
Building Trance Vocab...
2023-02-06 00:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostNon-Visual and Non-Sensory Suggestions by sleepingirl
One of the first things we learn as beginner hypnotists are suggestions that rely on imagery. Imagery suggestions are at the core of our first metaphors, our first guided fantasies, and our first fixations. They are one of the easiest ways to conceptualize talking to so...
2023-01-20 21:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostHypnosis can feel like true magic. A few words or even the right look or touch can invoke powerful feelings of control, submission, and sex. But in the pursuit of wielding this magic, sometimes we are caught up in the “formula,” and it holds us back.
The medium through which hypnosis works isn’t carefully-chosen words. It is a holist...
2022-12-23 18:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi all :) Getting started on next article. I solicited ideas from the community so there's a bunch, and you can vote for however many you want. If you submitted one and you don't see it on the list, it's probably because I don't feel like I can write it perfectly at this time, or it has too much overlap with things I've already written!
An...
2022-12-09 18:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! My health has been yucky but KNOCK WOOD I've been having some times where I'm more functional, so I want to start working on articles again ASAP, even if I have to go a little slow.
I have a list and I'll put a poll soon, but now is a great time to let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see!
Any aspects o...
2022-12-08 15:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1599809214280392706
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Explorations with Ch*tGPT and hypnosis:
- Very limited in its knowledge about hypnosis
- MUCH BETTER results talking to it about poetry
Hi everyone! I hope hypnovember has been kind to you all. I've been taking the month to focus on finishing and working on a TON of projects which I did a little thread about here: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1598011863807459328
Amnesia is a complicated topic in terms of hypnosis. I am always very cautious about categorizing hypnotic phenomena in the sense of how “difficult” or “easy” they are -- everyone has a different experience, and I think that kind of boxing-in of broad themes is where we can make a lot of mistakes. But that...
2022-10-21 14:20:47 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Here we go!
- Growth in Amnesia: A personal essay about my journey with hypnotic amnesia, what has helped me achieve it, ending with talk of some recent intense experiences.
- Hypnosis 101: I'm at the point where I'd like to try to tackle a model of beginner hypnosis (I have 5+ documents of t...
2022-10-13 14:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post