Spiral's Mantra Mad Libs!

So...here's a little thing I do whenever I negotiate with a new subject.

I love love looooove mantras, and I also love to cater my sessions to the preferences of the hypnotee.  So I always try to find or create a mantra that they will love, while determining what kinds of secondary mantras they would enjoy.

The format of these mantras inspired their name - Mantra Mad Libs. :)


Fill in the following sentence:

"I am a/an [adjective] [noun]."


In place of [adjective], choose one (or two) of the following:

• mindless
• helpless
• submissive
• obedient
• docile
• compliant
• pliant
• blank
• empty-headed
• programmed
• brainwashed
• enchanted 
• powerless

[For added fun, "helpless" can be adverb-ized as "helplessly," and thrown in front of one of these words.  Or another word, such as "horny"...]

In place of [noun], choose one of the following:

• puppet
• doll
• toy
• fucktoy
• plaything
• pet
• thrall
• slave
• slut
• bimbo
• drone
• robot
• automaton
• zombie

Then I add on a few other mantras that don't follow the pattern, to see if any catch the potential hypnotee's fancy:

• "I am helplessly hypnotized"
• "Obedience is pleasure, pleasure is obedience"
• "You control my mind, you control my body"
• "I have no will, I must obey"
• "I must obey my Master"
• "My mind is empty"
• "My mind is blank, I must obey"

There are a few themes repeated here...but then, fetishes do tend to be a little repetitive. :) 

I am very happy to take any suggestions, and will probably update this one a few times in the future with any new ones I remember, come up with, or come across. 

Another Erotica Post

I've been thinking a lot about my favorite erotica lately, so I thought I'd do another round of these links-and-reviews to hypnosis and mind control stories!

Still all maledom m/f or f/f...which is evidence that I should broaden my horizons, I think.  

As a bonus - most of these have some kind of personal connection to one of my partners, whether said partner gave me a new perspective on the story or it inspired a scene.  


Just Can't Get Enough by Jukebox (f/f, realistic hypnosis)

My Mandatory Jukebox Story. Do I even need to elaborate on what a fantastic writer he is? Anyway, I like this story because it combines a portrayal of negotiation with extremely hot trance play and a really adorable sense of humor.  It's also a rare but excellent example of hypnotist's trance being described, and in a sexy fashion at that! Also, some of the similes are really golden - Nine called my attention to them, and they are seriously cute and funny. 


Mandy by RC (f/f, noncon, robot fetish, sci-fi)

And this is my Mandatory RC Story.  This is the first FemMech story, and by far the best. Yeah, it's a non-con story, but the gradual robotizing is hot. I also like the twist about Mandy 2542 halfway through the story - it not only foreshadows where the story is going, it hints that the setting is bigger than this one story.

I had Sluggish Twitch read this one...and while reading it, she IMed me to let me know she was getting really hot and bothered, and planned to masturbate once she finished.  So with her permission, I dropped her and gave her the suggestion that she would do that masturbation as a robot as soon as she finished the story...she adored it. :)  


Raggedy Anne by thrall (f/f, noncon, doll fetish, fantasy, heavy objectification/dehumanization)

Y'know, this one (with the exception of a few scattered moments) is not even that hot to me. It works for me as a sort of erotic horror story. thrall hits the objectification/transformation/control kinks really well, and it did not surprise me to learn later that this was a very personal fantasy for her. She writes with such energy - all of her stories have this grandeur, for lack of a better word, to them. Every thrall story has this sense of overwhelming power - it's easy to get sucked into her descriptions of mindlessness, helplessness, and brainwashed obedience because of how passionately she writes. She describes these things with the same kind of power that Lovecraft wrote about otherworldly horrors - except that she provokes eroticism instead of terror. Well...maybe a little terror!


 Bound to Please by Jay Petto (m/f, noncon, objectification, humiliation)

Now this one...well, Jay Petto's stories tend to all fit into a single niche (marionette fetish scenes, usually involving psychic powers).  And that's a good niche, because nobody else is doing them!  And they're pretty good!  This one stands head and shoulders above the rest, in my estimation, because it has a sense of love and energy built into it that I find really enthralling.   

This one gets a particular nod for inspiring some scenes with sleepingirl - it certainly suggested the puppet strings routine that I use frequently, and sleepingirl asked that I make my strings more like the ones in this story (IE, every use of them sends a surge of pleasure through her body).  At any rate, there are a lot of little bits that are strikingly hot, for both dollification elements and humiliation elements.  


 The Chip by Darkmind (m/f, robot fetish, sci-fi, brief in-story simulation of non-consent)

Darkmind tends to write these dark morality tale stories about abusive mind control....and here he instead wrote a sci-fi scene story.  As in, portraying the BDSM and mind control/robot fetishism...of the future!  It's a really sweet story, and the scene is varied in a fun way.  I like how the top readjusts after several ideas don't work -I enjoy that sense of fallibility and humanity, that a scene involves constantly reevaluating what's happening in order to get the result that both people want.  It's left vague whether the specific missteps were negotiated beforehand; I'd like to imagine that they were idly mentioned in a conversation about the scene, and then simply didn't work out in practice.  (What can I say, if I see a gap like that, I prefer to fill it in consent culture style.) 

This story came to mind when Nine drew up a really fascinating scale of autonomy for mind controlled characters - since the bottom goes all over the scale over the course of the story. I may post this scale and my thoughts on it in the future! 

NEEHU 3 Recap

A few months back, I got to go to NEEHU 3!  I was one of three people there on NEEHU’s Community Enrichment Scholarship – I submitted an essay that was judged a very good demonstration of why I should come. :) 

I stayed in a hotel suite that was reserved for volunteers in addition to the scholarship people, and one of said volunteers was Hypnosquirrel.  Hypnosquirrel is a friend of Sam’s, who has hypnotized him a few times in the past, and he has been telling each of us how awesome the other one was.  So the two of us hit it off pretty well as friends and built good rapport!  I think this is the part where I usually go into a description of what someone was like, but I think I’ll go with the show-instead-of-tell route and just demonstrate her awesomeness throughout the post as I recap the times she tranced me.  :)

The first such time was during the meet-and-greet part of NEEHU itself, when Hypnosquirrel demonstrated a rapid induction on me.  The full transcript of the first time she put me under is presented here:

Hypnosquirrel: Do you want to be hypnotized?

Spiral: Yes.

Hypnosquirrel: Do you -really- want to be hypnotized?

Spiral: Yes!

Hypnosquirrel: *tugs arm* SLEEP! 

She did that twice.  My voice may have gotten a bit loud and betrayed how excited I was about this…?  (Hint: The “may” is a lie, my voice totally did that.)  The relevant bit, which was reinforced throughout the weekend: it turns out that I am really, -really- deliciously vulnerable to instant inductions!  I am a fan of this.  For this reason, Hypnosquirrel didn’t even bother giving me a trigger, she just snapped me under on any occasion when she felt like it. 

Later in the night, Hypnosquirrel and I were both volunteers in a stage show.  This was my first time being in a stage show, and I was glad that I got to do it in front of a crowd of hypno-kinksters.  But I don’t think I’ll repeat the experience.  I just did not like the group aspect very much, and could not enjoy it with the same intensity with which I enjoy being the subject in a one-on-one encounter. 

After the stage show, I found myself really exhausted – I felt very much as I do after a scene, in need of cuddling and relaxing and good conversation.  I definitely found the relaxing and good conversation! 

I spent a while chatting with a lovely group of people, one of which was a lady who goes by Miette.  I explained how I pretty much never get to do as much hypno-subbing as I’d like, and how I’m often very nervous approaching hypno-dommes online because I don’t want to come across as a creepy sub.  The women present commented that my shyness was adorable enough to not hurt my chances (eeee).  The conversation turned to robot fetishism, and Miette’s dom demonstrated her robot trigger for us, which was most excellent.  Miette herself is a very kind and playful person, and, as I found out later, a sub with a major soft spot for submissive men who don’t get as much submission as they’d like (AKA a category that I more-or-less fit right into). 

                                                            

Afterwards, I began playing around with the head-scratcher I’d gotten in my gift bag, and Miette demonstrated just how nice it feels when someone else uses it on me…I then commented that I’d been curious about having headscritches used in an induction, and she offered to do exactly that.  She petted and scratched me under, with the lovely suggestion that she was scratching my mind away as she stroked my hair.  She gave me a reinduction trigger (“Spiral, sleep now”), as well as a suggestion to use the red-yellow-green safewords while I was in trance that weekend.  (As it happens, it turned out that my brain decided to hold on to these safewords after the weekend, because they were just so useful!) 

Chatting with Miette also helped me rather profoundly – she talked about how whenever she is given a trigger that doesn’t quite take, she tends to react as if it worked perfectly.  This was extremely helpful for me to hear!  As someone who doesn’t experience hallucinations of any kind while under hypnosis, it was really helpful to hear someone else say that they did not experience it, and that it was fine, and that they could still follow those suggestions and still enjoy themselves while doing so.  This was all immensely helpful, and I don’t think one of the amazing scenes I had the next night would have been possible without it! 

So that was the end of the first day! 

The second day, I tried to get into all the cool presentations I could!  This included an awesome demonstration of fear inductions (which came at the end of a really cool lecture on different ways to understand hypnosis), a practice session for instant inductions (during which I got tranced by Wiseguy, which was uber-cool!), a presentation on pretalk by Hypnosquirrel, and a panel discussion of femdom hypnotists.  There were definitely a few things that I wish I had gone to – there was an impromptu discussion of amnesia, for example, which I only stayed at for fifteen minutes. 

I’m also just going to give a quick shout-out to AmHypnotic, who has been one of those people I’ve always wanted to meet in the hypno scene?  I’d read about him over on Musings of a Hypno-sub, and seen him posting cool things on Fetlife, and then gotten to chat with him on Hypbook.  And he was seriously one of the coolest, kindest people I could ever hope to meet! 

The second night’s play party was where the fun really came alive.  I started the night off by hypnotizing a cool dude who was having trouble going under, and gave him a trigger that his domme could use for the rest of the evening.  While I was doing this, Miette came over to watch.  She let me know that she was feeling tired from a rope scene earlier, and wasn’t sure if she was up for trancing me.  I let her know that that was no problem at all, and finished up my hypnosis session.  Afterward, she and I began cuddling…and she decided to put me under, after all!  (She said afterward that my cuteness gave her the energy she needed to do so.)  She gave me a robot trigger, and made it free-form enough that I could fill in the details with exactly what I wanted. 

                                         

As such…I was stiff.  I was obedient.  I did not move or speak unless ordered.  I had no emotion and no expression (this was one of the few parts she was clear on, and oh my goodness YES it was great).  My voice was monotone, and she ordered me to respond to orders with “Yes, Miss.” 

                                                   

Thus suggested, she had me remove my shirts (I usually wear two layers), and fold them neatly.  Then she had me fetch her a drink, and do a robotic dance.  After that, she ordered me to pick up my clothes and follow her into another room, where she lounged back in a chair while I either stood at her side or kneeled at her feet.  When I did the latter, she braided my hair and complimented me.  She also had me going under and freezing, and ran me through the three triggers in all sorts of combinations as she alternately pulled and stroked my hair.  Oh, and a very thorough fractionation that was very yummy!  She did this cool suggestion where, before waking me up on a count of 3, she would drop me down harder and deeper by counting “0.”  Looooovvvvved it, must remember to do this to others! 

I was amazed at how much I enjoyed the embarrassment aspect of the whole thing.  While getting the drink and following her into the other room, I kept thinking in my head, “Oh my God, this is great, my body is moving perfectly, I think people are looking at me, I think that couple was staring, this is SO HOT!”   

Hypnosquirrel came by and checked me out when I was robotized and frozen – she pulled out a pen cap to do a little sensation play while I was a robot (it was cool!).  I mentioned that I’d wanted to see what would happen if I were tickled while frozen, and Miette and Hypnosquirrel promptly obliged.  The answer: I still struggle away from the tickling, but the freeze slows me down and keeps me from covering up as much as I usually do. 

                                     

Miette handed me over, and Hypnosquirrel snapped me under again.  Then she proceeded to deepen me, establish dominance over me, and increased my sensitivity before caressing and tickling and scratching my back until I made all sorts of incoherent high pitched noises.  It turns out, when I am asked to say “green” any time I like something, and the things I’m feeling are really amazing touches on my very sensitive back, my voice reaches an extremely high pitch!  In the middle of the caressing and tickling, Hypnosquirrel used a suggestion to tie my legs together and my arms to my sides, and suddenly I was writhing and thrashing without the use of my limbs.  

                                                                            

She also suggested orgasm denial – that I would get so incredibly aroused, but could not orgasm without her permission.  I told her, still under, that I wasn’t sure it would work, even though I liked the idea.  She then phrased it as a very submissive thing, using a lot of phrases that I like!  Specifically, that my body was under her control, and did what she wanted, so my hair-trigger orgasms would be kept under control.  And y’know what?  It worked perfectly!  This is a suggestion type that always failed when I tried to follow it in an MP3 or video, but it made a huge difference to have it given by someone in person, someone that I cared about obeying and pleasing, and someone who reassured me that I was capable of doing it. 

So then Hypnosquirrel suggested that I would feel pleasure running down my torso, and that just continued to make me feel great.  She then began a suggestion that involved me remembering a time when I gave someone great pleasure, and how great that felt, and suggested that I would start to feel what that person felt.  (For those who are curious, I specifically thought about the first time I gave Lovely Petal a hypnotic orgasm!) 

At some point in this, while Hypnosquirrel was asking me questions, I wanted to really show my submission, and began to stammer out a question to see if she wanted me to call her Miss or Mistress or anything like that.  I gasped out as far as “Would you like me to - ” before she YANKED my hair back and said, “If I WANT you to do something, I will TELL you, boy!” 

Yyyyeeeeaaahhhhhhh that made me melt on the spot. 

The arousal, pleasure, and memory suggestions built up and up, until she had me feel a clitoral orgasm for the climax.  It was really fascinating – I felt it as a sort of mental overlay, like there was a vagina and clit sort of floating over my body, and my body reacted appropriately. 

Hypnosquirrel and I then cuddled for a solid while, and had all kinds of warm-fuzzy aftercare goodness.  After that I kinda bounced around, and watched both Hypnosquirrel and Miette have other awesome scenes, before finishing the night hanging out with them both.  Mostly Miette froze me on occasion while I cuddled with Hypnosquirrel.  And it was amazing!  Miette also gave me a goodbye trance to help me feel really good at the end. 

Sadly, I could not stay for the final day of NEEHU.  However, my time there was absolutely amazing!  I’ve mostly covered the scenes, because, well, I have a blog where I post about my scenes.  They were also a big first for me, since I had basically never done hypno-submission in person before!  And when it finally happened, it was perfect!  So I was a big mess of warm fuzzies by the end of the weekend.  

POST SCRIPT (added 7/29/2013): Some time after this, Hypnosquirrel switched to "they" as their preferred pronoun.  They asked that I add a post-script mentioning this rather than changing the body text.  And now you know!  

Online Sessions, from the Subjects' Viewpoint

Those of you who also follow sleepingirl's blog, you've probably noticed that she just posted an account of our first private play session.  Her writing is hot, the session was good, and if you follow this blog then you probably care about reading about me.  Especially from the other side's point of view! 

And all of those things apply to what else I'm posting - Sluggish Twitch's account of our first play session (and her first time being hypnotized)!  So I'm going to bow out, and allow you, dear reader, to read what both Twitch and sleepingirl have to say about me.

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I'm a Transformer! XD

Hai! Okay so this is my account of being hypnotized for the first time. Thank you Spiral, btw!

Okay, so starting out I wasn’t exactly sure if I was going to be able to go under, but boy am I glad I did! The induction was completely and totally relaxing. See watching the videos and things online and seeing the inductions, I always wondered what the person was feeling when they were told to sleep and their head just slumped. It was a part that honestly fascinated me, to just see them instantly slump. So when he told me to sleep, and my head slumped…it was awesome. Haha. I’m just so giddy at how instantly it happened. Being in the trance was so euphoric. Like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I was diagnosed with ADD, so my mind is constantly jumping back and forth from one topic to the other. I’m surprised I don’t have a permanent “TILT” sign on my forehead. But in this blank, mindless state, it was so calming. I was completely relaxed. He and I had talked about different things that interested us, and the robot stuff REALLY interested me. That and the freezing, mantras, I saw him do a call and response with another lady, which peaked my interest. I had a friend there with me, kind of like a security blanket. It aided in helping me feel safe and relaxed, so I was able to feel more comfortable.

I don’t think I’ll do a play by play run-through. But I’m definitely going to talk about the experience as a whole, and highlights. :D Some of my favorite times were when I was the robot. That’s something that’s super sexy to me, so it was QUITE enjoyable. The deeper I went in, the more like a robot I became. I noticed my own voice becoming monotone and robotic, noticed my movements changing. It was quite the fun experience. I liked the mantra bit, as well. It helped me really relax more and helped me become more obedient, and willing to obey commands. I also like the responses I was told to give, as well. “Yes, master.” “I hear and obey.” ^.^ Describing the feeling of going in and out of being a robot to being April was…so neat. When I was April, and my robot self was activated, it felt like…like if I were full of sand and all of it just drained out like sand draining from an hour glass, but not as slow. My whole body was tingling, relaxed, blank, when my robot self was activated. We did some call and response, which was SUPER hot for me. It also helped me go deeper into trance. I really enjoyed being commanded to do certain movements. At one point I was allowed to be aware of everything that was going on while in my robot state, and not just the mindless state of mind. Which was really great, being aware of what I was doing, but unable to stop myself. Doing movements and things, but not being able to stop myself. That feeling was so niiiiiice.

Which brings me to another one of my favorite parts of the evening. Freeze! Lol. During the times when I was April he had me freeze at different points, in the middle of doing different actions. At one point he caught me in the middle of licking my lips. Haha. He allowed my friend to move my limbs to put me into different poses while I was frozen. (Like picking my nose! Haha.) There was also the time-stop bits. Which are quite amusing. Similar to freeze, but I had no idea how long I had been frozen, and had no recollection (at the time) of what had happened while frozen, but yet still able to be posed. Those were fun. ^.^ My friend definitely had a grand time during those moments. One minute I was sitting on the couch, the next I was standing up. Haha. Talk about interesting! It was like I was a life sized, plus-sized Barbie doll. Oh! Another one of my favorite moments while being April was one of the freeze moments…I was told to freeze, and he left me like that for a few while he talked to my friend. Oh boy! :D Quite enjoyed that one.

He did some triggers that would make me feel like my hair was being pulled just the way I like it, and one that when spoken would make me feel a cut being done on a part of my body. Both of which are HUGE turn ons, for me. :D After everything that happened that evening, it was safe to say that I was thoroughly satisfied with my first session.

From a mental stand point it was so great to be able to just be a shell, completely submissive and willing to obey. Which is not something that I usually am. I love the helpless feelings I had during certain parts. There are still parts of the session that I just can’t seem to recall, but I’m okay with that. I just loved the being aware while in the robotic state. That feeling of obedience…and knowing that even had I not wanted to do it I was going to do it anyway because that was the command given. Granted I wanted to do those things, but still. There was a definite…I guess…I don’t know how to put it..Directive? Desire? Not sure on the correct word, but I just wanted to please, and to be obedient, and do exactly what I was told to do. Hearing “Good girl” or “Good robot” was exhilarating.

Afterwards, when I was brought out of trance I felt as giddy as a fat kid in a candy shop with a free pass to everything. Thoroughly enjoyed that session, and hopefully there will be more to come! I’m definitely planning on learning how to do it, as well. :D During the whole session I felt tingly all over. Even afterwards. I can’t properly describe the uplifted feeling that I’m still feeling the effects of. Wee! XD

Updates in the Life of Spiral

Hi all!

I've learned a very valuable lesson: declaring what I'm going to blog about next does not, in fact, increase my productivity.  The opposite, in fact, as it keeps me from posting things that I am actually inspired to post.

This was the case with the promised post about my scenes at the play party following my most recent hypnosis demonstration.  I procrastinated, didn't have the energy, or didn't have the time, for several weeks; then, I got further behind because there were other posts that I wanted to write, but I didn't want to upset the chronology.  And now, I am confident that I will not be able to write that post any time soon.  I hope to cover those scenes someday, but it won't be able to for a while. 

That said, I have a whole lot of other things that I do want to blog about.  And I'll be talking about some of them now!  And it'll be awesome!  And chronological order will be going right out the window. :) 

One thing to talk about is that I've recently reached a rather cool milestone: I have hypnotized 50 different people so far!  This counts any hypnosis sessions that I have done in person, by phone, by voice chat, or by video chat.  Video chat has been the medium I have used most often lately - my schedule is leaving far too little time (at least for my liking) to hypnotize people in person, while I have found my video chat schedule more flexible. 

With that said, I am going to use the rest of this post to talk a little about my current group of online partners, all of whom are very cool people! And also about another truly wonderful addition to my life: my new girlfriend, Nine. 

Georgie/Sam: Georgie has requested that, from here on out, I refer to him as Sam, which is the name he currently goes by in all contexts.  "Georgie" was a name that he found useful for a while, but it is no longer a good name to use for him.  Anyway, Sam and I have stayed in touch even though we currently live in different states.  We've recently begun playing online by voice chat, and it's quite good! 

Pet Ferret: I've also been keeping in touch with Ferret!  Pet Ferret has come out as genderqueer, and as such uses xe/xir for pronouns now.  Xe and I have played over video, and over text, and it's been cool!  Xe still preens with pride that my post about xir is the most well-received one that I've written.  :)  And we also talk pretty much non-stop via IM and text about awesome nerdy things and random funny things (usually things that involve copious usage of the words "cock" and "vagina"). 

Sluggish Twitch: Twitch is a completely awesome lady that I encountered in a Fetlife chatroom.  She's a gorgeous nerdlady who likes Freakazoid, and Transformers, and Batman.  She also has a robot fetish that lines up with mine exactly.  So she and I do a ton of robot play, and her robot voice is really excellent, and her robot posture is even hotter.  She's also learning hypnosis herself!  I'll probably post an account of one of our scenes that she wrote up for me.

Sacred Lioness: Sacred is another lady I met in the same chatroom as Twitch!  She is a fantastic subject who blanks out very hard.  She freezes so well that I have to remember to give her the suggestion that she's allowed to blink!  She's up there as one of the most naturally susceptible hypnotees that I've worked with.  She also works with another hypnotist, and has gotten to explore the fetish from playing with me, playing with him, and watching me play with Twitch.  On a few occasions, I've scened with her and Twitch at the same time, and it's been grand!  

sleepingirl:  sleepingirl is a rather awesome lady who burst onto the Fetlife Erotic Hypnosis group a few months back, making a lot of topics, but not looking for partners or friends.  As such, I did not approach her at the time, although she seemed cool.  Rather, she approached me, because she read my blog and thought I was cool.  Since then, we've started playing a lot, and flirting even more often.  She enjoys humiliation, and teasing, and I make sure she gets her fill of each any time she scenes with me.  It helps that the toy/puppet/doll language that I enjoy so much happens to push her humiliation buttons HARD.  She runs her own hypno-sex blog over at sleepingirl's blog (linked over on the sidebar on the right!), which has some astoundingly sexy writing.  She's got a blog post or two about me coming up soon, as well...keep an eye out for them. :)

Sarona Silverwolf: Gee, my list of online partners has quite a bit of alliteration...anyway!  Sarona is another lovely lady, who in fact looks so much like Pet Ferret (well, their eyes look very different, but) that I did a double-take upon seeing her on cam for the first time.  Well, since then, Pet Ferret has cut xir hair into a mohawk and dyed it "flamingly homosexual" in xir own words, so the resemblance is less strong.  BUT ANYWAY, Sarona had a fair amount of hypno-kink experience.  She has a little trouble accepting triggers, but I've been working with her and have had more success getting them to stick.  :)  My scenes with her mostly focus on blank-and-happy kind of feelings, with some mild pleasure, and they're very relaxing to do.  She also has a boyfriend that she does hypnosis play with, and I get to watch the two of them play on occasion!

Scaramouche Black: The lucky #50 herself, Scaramouche is my most recent play partner.  She's tremendously charismatic, and enjoys a good blanking, and we're looking forward to doing some role play and bodily transformation suggestions.  


Playing so much online has gotten my creativity working.  I've developed several signature hypnotic routines as a result!

• Puppet Strings: The hypnotee feels marionette strings all over their body, and feels limp and loose and totally supported and held up by those strings.  The strings then move their body into position in order to obey any orders I give.  All agree that it's a fascinating sensation, and very fun to experience.  It even has a little bit of bondage undertone, which is appreciated by many.
• The Three Pronged Hypno Beating:  Mentioned in the last post, the Three Pronged Hypno Beating involves a trio of hypnotic triggers - one for a flogger across the back, one for a spanking on the rear, one for candlewax anywhere the hypnotee likes it.  It's a favorite of all the masochists!  Sam and Sacred like the flogging in particular.  I can switch up the specific sensations to a hypnotee's preference, but this particular trio is the one I've adopted as my standard. 
• Inevitable Mantra: Upon hearing a trigger word, the hypnotee feels a compulsion to say a mantra out loud ("Obedience is pleasure" is the one I usually use).  The compulsion gets stronger until they say it.  As soon as they say it, they feel a wave of blankness and mindlessness and bliss wash over their mind, making them feel more obedient and docile afterward.  Since following a posthypnotic suggestion involves going into trance, this also means that any pleasure triggers that I use immediately afterward become much stronger!  Which is handy. :)

Perhaps the most important and cool change in my life is that, as of today, I now have a girlfriend!  I will be referring to her on this blog as Nine.  Nine is an anomaly among people I've played with, in that she is not into hypnosis.  In fact, she is rather squicked by the idea of being hypnotized.  Rather, Nine is an asexual masochist.  When I met her, she was looking to try out impact play, protocol, and role play with D/s dynamics.  I grew to have a very strong affection for her, and we tried tying each other up at a local event on bondage.  Afterward, I asked if she wanted to get together for bondage practice sometime, to which she said yes.  Then, I asked if she would like to do some impact play while we did so...and she was incredibly excited at the prospect.

My affection for Nine is such that I rejoice whenever I can make her happy, and I can do that by hitting her (safely!) and dominating her in our role plays. Our interpersonal relationship is very important to me, and I've found that I utterly adore our impact play sessions (both for the euphoric joy that it brings her, and for the visceral, physical joy of hitting someone until I'm tired). She is a wonderful part of my life, and I'm proud to be her boyfriend and her impact play top. 

We're also fully polyamorous, though.  Meaning that I'm still scening with all of the above people, and some in-person play partners, and other people that I've met online.

Nine has her own blog, Lyrical Agony, also linked on the sidebar on the right.  Her writing is quite fascinating! 

Life is good! 

Demo Recap!

So! As I stated in my last post, I was invited to perform an erotic hypnosis lecture/demonstration for my local kink community. It was an absolute blast. :)

A few things were different this go-around. Neither of my demo-bottoms was comfortable demonstrating a hypnotic orgasm on stage (AKA the most iconic/popular erotic hypnosis trick); so I had to come up with other impressive things to show off (which I think worked out for the better, really!). And, while I had the better part of two hours to do my previous demo - I had about 45 minutes to an hour for this one. I stressed a lot about the small amount of time, but it was really not a problem at all - I was able to get a lot in, and the demonstration portion was particularly excellent!

Being short on time, I was sure to hit as many high points as I could. I went for more of an informational lecture for the most part. I covered the whole what-is-hypnosis spiel, did some myth-busting (it's handy that so many people ask me so many questions, I have a good sense of what people want to know and what they think they know).

I particularly tried to focus on things that hypnosis is notably good for - role play, binding people when you don't have rope on hand, freezing in place, enhancing sensitivity, sensations on command, feeling a loss of control...that sort of thing. I didn't get as many questions as last time, which is good, because at my last demo I went so far over time that it was ridiculous (but enjoyed and appreciated by that audience, though).

The demonstration part began with Lovely Petal. I froze her, and posed her amusingly. It's definitely handy to have a hypnotee who can freeze her facial expressions...it's a better convincer for the audience than almost anything else I could show. :) I also gave her a little bit of hypnobondage (rope is big in the community, so it seemed like the ideal thing to show off). Had her bound in an X-like position, and tickled her a little. And then I released her and she shook her arms and stamped her feet while smiling at me.

I then brought up someone that I had not worked with before - Calluna. Like the last demo, I felt that it was handy to demonstrate with someone who was new, both to "prove" the reality of what I did and to show the entire process in a genuine way complete with on-the-fly renegotiation and adjustments. She and I had negotiated beforehand, but that was about all the prep work I had done.

So I put Calluna under using the Elman induction, and she responded very well to the relaxation parts. I then did the suggestion she was most interested in: a little routine I've been calling my Three Pronged Hypno Beating. :) It consists of three post-hypnotic triggers: one for feeling a flogger across the back, one for feeling a hard spank, and one for feeling hot wax. For each of these sensations, I told Calluna that she would feel them exactly as she liked them - she would feel the wax in her favorite spots, she would feel the flogging exactly as she likes it, and she would feel the spanking at exactly her favorite intensity.

Well...Calluna is a switch. More to the point, she is a Sadist, and yes the capital S is intentional. So when I used the flogging trigger, she instead felt as though her shoulder was sore from flogging someone for an hour. XD As she put it later: switch problems!

The other two triggers worked great, though! She felt the wax on her feet (a few people in the audience oohed and said that they needed to try that), and the spanking trigger made her jump in her seat. After using both of those triggers, she curled up (after feeling the wax again), looked at me, and said, "I can hit you back for real, you know..."

After that, I checked that she was doing OK and comfortable with everything. Then I put her back under, cleared the triggers, and wrapped up my presentation.

There was a play party afterward - and I got some trancing done at that, too, although with other awesome people. That'll be in my next post!

I had a lot of people come up to me afterward to rave about it! Apparently I had good stage presence (I've had a LOT of public speaking practice). Some people even called it the best demo that they've seen in that space! I'm very flattered and thankful that people enjoyed it so much.

Demo Announcement, and Thoughts on Hypnotist's Trance

Hi all! I've been not-posting for far longer than I'd have liked, and would really like to get back on track.

The most exciting news right now is - I'm doing another hypnosis demo! This one is going to be for my current kink community, with Lovely Petal as my assistant and demo bottom, and it will be one year to the day of my last hypnosis demo (February 11). I am extremely excited for this!

Alongside that news, I thought I'd throw in some thoughts on hypnotist's trance.

It is said - often - in the erotic hypnosis community that any hypnotist worth his salt will go under themselves while hypnotizing somebody. That said, this phenomenon is frequently mentioned only in passing, without any kind of description of what it's like. Alert EMCSA readers will occasionally see it portrayed by the writers who really know what they're doing - Jukebox has worked the phenomenon into a few of his stories, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly.

Since I like to fill in gaps I see in the info out there on hypno-domming, I thought I'd throw in my own experience of hypnotist's trance - especially since I am often asked what I am getting out of hypno-play as the dom, and really, this is a huge part of the answer to that.

When I am hypnotizing somebody - my world closes around the two of us. My focus shifts entirely to the person I'm working with. My brain, my mouth, my voice, even to some extent my eyes - these all go on autopilot. My voice becomes soft, seductive, and soothing. My thoughts become entirely fixated on the other person, and I feel wrapped in the exhilarating feeling that there is nobody else in the world except the two of us, that nothing else in the outside world matters - all that matters is this one erotic, beautiful moment between us. For the entire induction process, I act rather than think - I smoothly shift my brain and transform into a well-oiled hypnotizing machine, able to rattle off all of my stock inductions, becoming so finely attuned to my hypnotized partner that I automatically adjust any time one of my methods is clearly not working, or whenever I know of a method that I'm sure will work even better. The trial and error inherent in sussing out the best way to work with somebody flows together into one continuous process.

(This is yet another reason why negotiation is so all-important - I need a plan beforehand, and while I remain in control enough to avoid things that I know are pitfalls or bad areas for my partner, I nonetheless need some guidance so that I can set up a framework prior to entering this autopilot state.)

There's a major ego trip involved, obviously - those feelings of omnipotence, isolation, and power all feel great.

I've definitely done hypnosis sessions where I haven't entered this state as strongly - where I've had more awareness of the world around me (usually by necessity - gotta account for these things even as I'm making sure that they don't interfere with the session), where I've been distracted by other things, where I've had to take a step back and re-adjust because none of my approaches have been working.

But when I do a well-negotiated hypnosis session with somebody, where I know what to do and how to do it beforehand - where I'm able to let go, let that person become my entire world, let myself ride the rush that I get from making it all happen and feeling my voice smoothly shift gears to handle the situation -

That is just a sample of what I'm getting out of hypno-domming.