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.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hypnosis Demo = Epic Succeed
...well, maybe not epic succeed, but definitely a good time, and I like using that phrase.
As is, Pet Ferret chose to back out of the demonstration - after considering it, she decided that she just wasn't ready to open up to strangers that way. Things got more complicated when Georgie had to mangle her schedule to get to the demo on time. So, no two-person scenes happened at the demonstration, although a lot of cool things did.
The turnout for the demo was predominantly women, which I find fascinating from a gender-theorist perspective. Hypnotism in general (not just the fetish) is often gendered as a feminine area (whether it's the sexy assistant brought up to be hypnotized on stage, the damsel in distress controlled by the evil villain, or the enchanting hypnotic seductress). It was intriguing to see that reflected in the attendance.
I started the demonstration with a lecture on what hypnosis is, trying to address all of the common misconceptions while providing realistic expectations of what is and is not possible with it. I also tried to address as many safety and ethics issues as possible (I skipped some in my nervousness, which bugs me still - at least they got addressed in the handout that all of the attendees received). I felt that I did a great job in being personable and knowledgeable, in answering questions and not letting my penchant for tangents get the better of me too often.
I brought Georgie up for the demonstration. She had given me permission to use more physical contact during the demo - so I cuddled up with the intention of adding to her relaxation during the reinduction process. I used the pocket watch here for dramatic effect - she described the process to me afterward by saying that she felt performance anxiety going under in front of an audience, but ultimately decided, fuck it, and relaxed for me. Unfortunately, she had some trouble getting quite as relaxed as she had last time - after I brought her back up, she stated that my proximity distracted her because she had an aversion to the smell of cissexual men (even clean and nice ones like myself!). That got a nice laugh out of the audience, at least! I rolled with it, moving myself away to allow her greater comfort.
I moved the demo into a demonstration of triggers, first freezing and posing her for the audience before putting her back under. The next routine was inspired by this blog post, as per Georgie's request - both of her hands were turned into proxies for her vulva et al. I brought up a mutual friend, Eve, to help me work her over - this got a laugh as she told Eve to go harder and then doubled over in pleasure. After finishing, she clapped her hands together - only to get a jolt, since the suggestion was in effect until she went back under. I resisted the horrible urge to make a "self-tribadism" joke, on the grounds that probably nobody would have gotten it.
I finished off Georgie's part of the demonstration by repeating the same bondage + orgasm scene described in the two posts about her trial session. I'm told that some of the onlookers had very amusing reactions to this, but I sadly did not notice because I was way into my hypnotist's trance.
Next, I brought up Pandora, who volunteered to be hypnotized without prior preparation. The two of us had met up and chatted a few days prior, and had discussed ideas for the demo over Fetlife. She's a LARPer, had done meditation, and enjoyed being a sub - so, as I told her, there was no chance in hell she would not go under well. I was right. >:) I put her under with the Elman Induction, helpfully pointing out the steps to the audience along the way.
Since she had that LARP and acting experience, I decided to differentiate her section from Georgie's by focusing on role play suggestions. I first turned her into a kitty, and she gave some very nice purrs as I petted her, scratched her neck, tickled her chin. Next, she became a bimbo - her friends in the audience stared wide-eyed as she started twirling her hair and staring vapidly. She didn't get too into the role, though - as we discussed in front of the audience when I brought her out. She commented that the role just wasn't comfortable, and I took the moment to note that playing to a hypntoee's preferences will always result in a better scene - and playing against them will be unsatisfactory for all involved, to say the least.
[Honestly? I'm not even INTO the whole bimbo thing. I just thought it would be cool to demonstrate a role play suggestion, and I happened to be familiar with that one since it's so popular in the hypno-community. She was cool with it in theory, even if she found it not-so-appealing to try.]
I finished Pandora's section off with another orgasm demonstration, since she really wanted to have one. I tried giving her the same type of suggestions as Georgie, only to find that she didn't respond to the idea of increasing sensitivity at all. So, I switched gears and gave her the suggestion that she would instead focus on a memory of a truly outstanding orgasm, savor the memory and bring those sensations right into the present once I tapped her on the forehead. Indeed, she began shifting and breathing heavily as I focused on building up her arousal (as opposed to her sensitivity), and then, as she nodded that she was ready, tapped her forehead and brought her to climax.
I continued answering audience questions for a while then, addressing some very cool discussion about different methods of trancing, different possibilities for play, and other bits of info about the whole hypnotism process.
I finished things up with a demonstration of instant inductions. ...at least, that was the plan. I brought Eve up for another cold induction, and proceeded to epically fail at doing a handshake induction. Twice. Then I tried to give her a butterfly hand induction, but she didn't go under - she did feel something, though, as if she was about to go under and then snapped awake. I commented that my nervousness probably got in the way of my timing, and that instant inductions were never my forte to begin with (they're useful now and then, but I find a slow, gradual induction both more rewarding and more effective on most occasions).
Mercifully, my goof was not recorded on the video of the demonstration. I think I would die of embarrassment if I had to watch that again when playing the video back for my friends.
I had a blast afterward, making small talk with all of the different people who came - with the previous back-up demonstration subject who found that she was able to come at the last minute, with the submissive of one of my pen pals from the community, with someone I recognized from a non-kinky context, with someone I had seen around at the munches and never got to talk to, with Pandora's boyfriend to muse on how her personal quirks affected her going under. I very much played the social moth, flitting from one conversation to the next depending on how fun it looked to join in - I do that sometimes. Like I said - a blast.
All in all - I think I did a pretty decent job. Not a great job, but a decent one! I'm proud of it, especially since I'm quite a bit younger than most of the people who come in to do presentations for the group.
Once the event was over, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some additional fun...at least some of which will be the subject of a future blog post. :)
As is, Pet Ferret chose to back out of the demonstration - after considering it, she decided that she just wasn't ready to open up to strangers that way. Things got more complicated when Georgie had to mangle her schedule to get to the demo on time. So, no two-person scenes happened at the demonstration, although a lot of cool things did.
The turnout for the demo was predominantly women, which I find fascinating from a gender-theorist perspective. Hypnotism in general (not just the fetish) is often gendered as a feminine area (whether it's the sexy assistant brought up to be hypnotized on stage, the damsel in distress controlled by the evil villain, or the enchanting hypnotic seductress). It was intriguing to see that reflected in the attendance.
I started the demonstration with a lecture on what hypnosis is, trying to address all of the common misconceptions while providing realistic expectations of what is and is not possible with it. I also tried to address as many safety and ethics issues as possible (I skipped some in my nervousness, which bugs me still - at least they got addressed in the handout that all of the attendees received). I felt that I did a great job in being personable and knowledgeable, in answering questions and not letting my penchant for tangents get the better of me too often.
I brought Georgie up for the demonstration. She had given me permission to use more physical contact during the demo - so I cuddled up with the intention of adding to her relaxation during the reinduction process. I used the pocket watch here for dramatic effect - she described the process to me afterward by saying that she felt performance anxiety going under in front of an audience, but ultimately decided, fuck it, and relaxed for me. Unfortunately, she had some trouble getting quite as relaxed as she had last time - after I brought her back up, she stated that my proximity distracted her because she had an aversion to the smell of cissexual men (even clean and nice ones like myself!). That got a nice laugh out of the audience, at least! I rolled with it, moving myself away to allow her greater comfort.
I moved the demo into a demonstration of triggers, first freezing and posing her for the audience before putting her back under. The next routine was inspired by this blog post, as per Georgie's request - both of her hands were turned into proxies for her vulva et al. I brought up a mutual friend, Eve, to help me work her over - this got a laugh as she told Eve to go harder and then doubled over in pleasure. After finishing, she clapped her hands together - only to get a jolt, since the suggestion was in effect until she went back under. I resisted the horrible urge to make a "self-tribadism" joke, on the grounds that probably nobody would have gotten it.
I finished off Georgie's part of the demonstration by repeating the same bondage + orgasm scene described in the two posts about her trial session. I'm told that some of the onlookers had very amusing reactions to this, but I sadly did not notice because I was way into my hypnotist's trance.
Next, I brought up Pandora, who volunteered to be hypnotized without prior preparation. The two of us had met up and chatted a few days prior, and had discussed ideas for the demo over Fetlife. She's a LARPer, had done meditation, and enjoyed being a sub - so, as I told her, there was no chance in hell she would not go under well. I was right. >:) I put her under with the Elman Induction, helpfully pointing out the steps to the audience along the way.
Since she had that LARP and acting experience, I decided to differentiate her section from Georgie's by focusing on role play suggestions. I first turned her into a kitty, and she gave some very nice purrs as I petted her, scratched her neck, tickled her chin. Next, she became a bimbo - her friends in the audience stared wide-eyed as she started twirling her hair and staring vapidly. She didn't get too into the role, though - as we discussed in front of the audience when I brought her out. She commented that the role just wasn't comfortable, and I took the moment to note that playing to a hypntoee's preferences will always result in a better scene - and playing against them will be unsatisfactory for all involved, to say the least.
[Honestly? I'm not even INTO the whole bimbo thing. I just thought it would be cool to demonstrate a role play suggestion, and I happened to be familiar with that one since it's so popular in the hypno-community. She was cool with it in theory, even if she found it not-so-appealing to try.]
I finished Pandora's section off with another orgasm demonstration, since she really wanted to have one. I tried giving her the same type of suggestions as Georgie, only to find that she didn't respond to the idea of increasing sensitivity at all. So, I switched gears and gave her the suggestion that she would instead focus on a memory of a truly outstanding orgasm, savor the memory and bring those sensations right into the present once I tapped her on the forehead. Indeed, she began shifting and breathing heavily as I focused on building up her arousal (as opposed to her sensitivity), and then, as she nodded that she was ready, tapped her forehead and brought her to climax.
I continued answering audience questions for a while then, addressing some very cool discussion about different methods of trancing, different possibilities for play, and other bits of info about the whole hypnotism process.
I finished things up with a demonstration of instant inductions. ...at least, that was the plan. I brought Eve up for another cold induction, and proceeded to epically fail at doing a handshake induction. Twice. Then I tried to give her a butterfly hand induction, but she didn't go under - she did feel something, though, as if she was about to go under and then snapped awake. I commented that my nervousness probably got in the way of my timing, and that instant inductions were never my forte to begin with (they're useful now and then, but I find a slow, gradual induction both more rewarding and more effective on most occasions).
Mercifully, my goof was not recorded on the video of the demonstration. I think I would die of embarrassment if I had to watch that again when playing the video back for my friends.
I had a blast afterward, making small talk with all of the different people who came - with the previous back-up demonstration subject who found that she was able to come at the last minute, with the submissive of one of my pen pals from the community, with someone I recognized from a non-kinky context, with someone I had seen around at the munches and never got to talk to, with Pandora's boyfriend to muse on how her personal quirks affected her going under. I very much played the social moth, flitting from one conversation to the next depending on how fun it looked to join in - I do that sometimes. Like I said - a blast.
All in all - I think I did a pretty decent job. Not a great job, but a decent one! I'm proud of it, especially since I'm quite a bit younger than most of the people who come in to do presentations for the group.
Once the event was over, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some additional fun...at least some of which will be the subject of a future blog post. :)
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Volunteer 2: Georgie, Perspective Flip
Georgie posted her own account of our session on Fetlife, and gave me permission to cross-post it here:
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In preparation to be demonstrated upon at a Bloomington Kink event next Friday, Spiral_Turquoise gave me my first live hypnosis session, for which I can't thank him enough! This entry is just to record and relay the experience in partial detail. I know that Spiral_Turquoise will also post about this in his blog, so it will be interesting to read how our viewpoints diverge and converge. Since I am not completely familiar with all of the terminology used in hypnosis, I might occasionally mess up. Feel free to correct me, as I'd rather learn than continue saying the wrong things!
We met at my house and chatted for a bit about subjects kink and vanilla. I should also mention that I had one of my friends present in the room, since I had never met Spiral in person before. My friend was fascinated by the process in general, so he had fun keeping an eye on us while playing Mindcraft.
Spiral started off by trying to hypnotize me using a handshake, which only made me giggle. His explanation of why it works on people was fascinating though! Then he had me follow a pocket watch with my eyes, eventually leading to full body relaxation and me counting myself down into a deep trance. He used a quick awakener (12345 awake) and instructed me while under that I would go back under at the count of 54321. He tried this while I was standing up, and it didn't work. But when I sat back down (now in a much more comfortable chair), he did it again and I went under. He then demonstrated some rope-less bondage like having my hands stuck to the headrest of the chair (not comfortable at all, but they were stuck!) My reaction to each of these feats was "That was awesome!" He then demonstrated freezing, which was especially cool and surreal when he was posing my head and arms in different positions, like an adult-sized action figure.
The pièce de résistance, though, came in two parts. First Spiral put me into an extremely submissive headspace, and added to that feeling by having me forget my name and replacing it with a name of my choosing (pet was what I decided on). Then he woke me up but kept me in trance and in that headspace, and had me stand and kneel on command. When asked my name, I simply stated, "pet," and when asked if that had always been my name, I shook my head. When asked if I could remember what it used to be though, my given name seemed sort of like a wisp of smoke in my mind that I couldn't grasp. Very cool! He then had me imagine that my wrists were bound to the ceiling by a cable, and proceeded to build me to an amazing orgasm with no physical contact whatsoever. As I got closer and closer to climax, my head was actually sagging against my upright, rope-less bound arms, Thinking back on it now, I can still hardly believe it! I felt totally aware of everything, maybe even more aware in some ways, but there was absolutely no desire to not do whatever he was suggesting. The whole thing was a lot of fun, and we chatted afterwards about different possibilities for the demonstration on Friday. At least one other person has volunteered, so there might be some two person scenes, which I would find fascinating to experience.
Thanks again to Spiral_Turquoise for making this happen, and if you happen to be in Bloomington, it would be worth your while to stop by and see him in action!
Volunteer 2: Georgie
Georgie was the first person to reply to my request for a volunteer on Fetlife. She's fairly new to the kink scene, although she'd been to an event or two and knew her way around getting tied up.
She's also genderqueer (her words: "apathetic to gender") (she told me that female pronouns are OK, btw) and not into men. She also asked that she have a friend to watch her and make sure I didn't go any further than her limits - all good by me. That lack of attraction created a very different dynamic than I am used to. No cuddling during the deepening, and I restricted my own use of touching and contact to downplay/eliminate any sexual overtones of the process. This resulted in a strikingly different session from the one with Pet Ferret, who was not only more suggestible but also very attracted to me.
Also of interest: Georgie had already tried out some hypnosis MP3s beforehand. In the Fetlife PM exchange setting up our meeting, we commented on our separate experiences with Isabella Valentine's MP3s - she didn't like the theatricality of Isabella's presentation, and I had some of the same feeling (I more disliked the subtle conflation of submission with humiliation in the file I listened to). From this, she could tell me what worked well for her - direct commands rather than imagery, focus on bodily relaxation and modulation. In other words: my strengths as a hypnotist. Lucky!
The session with Pet Ferret, due to the sexual dynamics in place and Ferret's high susceptibility, was very much scene-scene-scene-negotiation-scene-scene-sexy times. Georgie's session was more stop-and-start, with a gradual working-up to each hypnotic suggestion.
So, the two of us met up and chatted a bunch about this and that, making all of the negotiation crystal clear. (This was very important to me because, as I stated before, she is not into cis men and I wanted to be absolutely clear about her limits.) The itinerary for the day was hypno bondage, freezing, maybe an orgasm, anything else to be negotiated as we went.
Euphoric after my handshake success with Ferret and hoping to play on pre-existing hypnosis knowledge, I asked Georgie if she had heard of handshake inductions. That was a no, which made the subsequent attempt really awkward. Making her aware of the fact that I was doing something unusual got her laughing when she felt the hand motions, so I took a break to explain what I was trying to do before moving on to a different approach.
I did my classic handy-dandy hands-stuck induction (with pocket watch as visual focus). This induction was one of the first I came across, and the one I used to put my first girlfriend under for the first time; the language I use is based on the heavy arm/light arm induction used in this story, the first piece of hypno-erotica I ever read. (Thank you, RC, for using painstakingly accurate induction techniques in your stories.) When I am in doubt, I go with this since I know my way around it so thoroughly. It has failed me exactly once, which was not with Georgie on this day.
After the induction, I led her through a feet-to-head progressive relaxation to deepen the trance, with particular focus on her breathing and her neck muscles. This led to a little bit of awkwardness since the couch she was sitting on was not really built for someone to lean back in. I then gave her the countdown-from-50 deepener; I had her do the counting while I continued on with a repetitive relaxation patter in the background. This worked, and she was clearly feeling very relaxed and calm by the end of it. I thought I'd move into one kind of hypnobondage by having her arms get really light; my intent was to have her arms rise upward and stay there, unable to be brought back down. However, while her arms moved with the jerky motion of someone in a deep trance, it looked to me that this wasn't the best way to go (the trajectory of her arms wasn't ideal for a bondage scene, the motion indicated that the "effortless" part wasn't quite in effect); I switched gears to make it a deepener, suggesting that her arms would fall back down and her whole body would relax even more once one of her hands touched her face.
I brought her back out, renegotiated where to go next, and she relocated to a nice, comfy chair in the room that let her sprawl out, relax, and prepare to be bound with her mind.
The ropeless bondage here was pretty simple stuff - arms up, hands stuck to the chair, feet stuck to the footrest. Due to that whole "no sexual contact" thing, I was unsure where to take the scene - asked if it was OK to tickle her, only to have her quite happily tell me (after I had started) that she wasn't ticklish. With a different subject, under a different dynamic, and in a different context, that would have merited a punishment. >:) But, since this was Georgie under this dynamic in this context, I put her back under, unbound her, relaxed her, and moved on to some freezing.
She liked this. I had her totally lock in place, unable to speak, when I said "Freeze, Georgie." She chose to be completely frozen, rather than able to speak like Ferret was. Her muscles remained relaxed despite being frozen - another sign of deep trance, and very cool. I always get a kick out of seeing different people's faces when they're frozen and mute. Most hypnotees' faces relax and go blank, staring straight ahead; a tiny, tiny percentage of people (including exactly one of my subs) will have frozen expressions on their faces, usually with their eyes going unfocused. Georgie's eyes kind of slid to the side and stayed there, which was interesting - more on this in a bit. Anyway, I put her in a few model-ish poses, but she was overcome with the giggles when I moved her to a sleepwalker/zombie pose; so I unfroze her and asked what she thought.
"That felt really cool!" She and I chatted a bit about the appeal of freezing to a kinky audience, as well as the way that subs who like being gagged always choose to be unable to speak while frozen. I froze her again after she enthused about the feeling, then we just kind of talked for a while about this and that (the discussion of audience led to some rich tangents).
Somewhere in that discussion, I recalled the time that I made an ex of mine forget a number. The chaperone then insisted that I have Georgie forget the number 4 (coincidentally the same number said ex forgot - the chaperone and I probably had the same thought process on it).
Having covered the big two phenomena I want to showcase at the demo, I asked if there was anything else she would like to experience. When asked for some ideas, I offered the idea of an extra-submissive headspace in addition to some amnesia. She was intrigued. So, in keeping with the style of suggestion I had been using (gradual, less overtly dominant, less overtly sexual), I gradually had her thoughts fall asleep, to be replaced in her head with my voice. Once that happened, I had her imagine all of her control, all of the stress and tension that comes from having control, getting sucked into my pocket watch, leaving her awash in a feeling of deep, powerful submissiveness. As I described waves of submission washing over her, I gave her the suggestion that she could not remember her name, that it would be replaced by her preferred submissive epithet ("pet," in this case).
I woke Georgie up in this submissive headspace - different from how I had done it with anyone else. Like when she was frozen, her eyes drifted to the side, becoming slightly downcast. I asked her if this avoidance of eye contact came naturally to her in this state, and she said she guessed so.
"What is your name?"
"Pet..."
"Has that always been your name?"
"No..."
"Can you remember what your name was before?"
"...almost!..."
"And now you feel it slipping away the more you try to remember it, feeling your name slip away more and more as you feel those waves of submissiveness wash over you, wash over your mind and being..."
After bringing her back to her full senses and determining that she really enjoyed that, we agreed to go for the hypnotic orgasm. I brought her back down into trance, established that she could use the classic "green/yellow/red" safewords during this scene, and asked her for some of her favorite sensations. In this case, being bound at the wrists. So, I stuck her wrists together and then suggested that they were tied to the ceiling by a very strong cable. Unlike many of the hypnobondage recipients I've tranced, she struggled a lot against the rope and seemed to really feel it and move her body to the best position possible to enjoy what came next.
Since we had agreed on no contact for this scene, I had Georgie open her eyes and watch the watch again, suggesting that as she watched the watch she felt fingers working her clit. When asked for feedback, she described the feeling as a "light buzzing"...I proceeded to suggest that it got stronger the more she looked at the watch. This didn't seem to work well, so, improvising time! The more she watched the watch, the heavier her eyelids felt, and the stronger the buzzing felt - until it doubled in intensity once her eyes closed. Her eyes melted shut, and she reacted quite visibly. Still bound by her own mind, starting to breathe heavily with arousal and sensation, I then suggested that the buzzing would double in intensity every time I snapped my fingers.
*snap*
"Feeling it more and more, feeling it building surely but steadily to a powerful orgasm..."
*snap*
*snap*
*snap*
This went on for quite a while, a gradual, sensual buildup that left her shaking, struggling against the mental bonds, subtly bucking her hips, until, as suggested, Georgie rasped out the word "ready" to indicate that she was ready to come. 5...4...3...2...1...ORGASM. Watching her savor the orgasm and start to feel the afterglow, I suggested that she could ride out the orgasm as long as she wanted, bask in the afterglow and the feeling of submissiveness and the relaxation of trance as long as she wanted, and that she would count herself back up to full wakefulness when she was ready. After a few moments of basking, she did just that, and woke up to say, "THAT was FUCKING FUN!"
We had a fun conversation at this point about how she didn't believe hypnotic orgasms were possible when she saw them advertised by Isabella Valentine, and my personal theory that certain hypno-fetish porn sites (if they use real hypnosis) probably suggest to the models that they will fake orgasms rather than have orgasms upon a trigger.
So, all of this over, we had a closing friendly chat and then both headed off to our separate obligations.
Her Fetlife status afterward:
"Wow! Didn't think anyone could have an orgasm from only hypnosis, but Spiral_Turquoise proved me wrong!"
All in all, a very interesting, very cerebral trance session where the extra work that I put into some suggestions paid off big time. Sessions like this - no sexual contact contact, doing slow buildups and more subtle submissive feelings instead of straight mindlessness - are a fascinating contrast to the kind of hot, passionate encounter that I had with Pet Ferret. Still thoroughly enjoyable, in a different way that is also deeply rewarding.
As is, both Georgie and Pet Ferret are alright with the idea of having some two-person scenes during the demo. This isn't something I expected to do, so I'm going to have to rework my idea of how this whole thing will go down to work in all the new possibilities here.
Chances are my next post will be the report from the demo. :D
She's also genderqueer (her words: "apathetic to gender") (she told me that female pronouns are OK, btw) and not into men. She also asked that she have a friend to watch her and make sure I didn't go any further than her limits - all good by me. That lack of attraction created a very different dynamic than I am used to. No cuddling during the deepening, and I restricted my own use of touching and contact to downplay/eliminate any sexual overtones of the process. This resulted in a strikingly different session from the one with Pet Ferret, who was not only more suggestible but also very attracted to me.
Also of interest: Georgie had already tried out some hypnosis MP3s beforehand. In the Fetlife PM exchange setting up our meeting, we commented on our separate experiences with Isabella Valentine's MP3s - she didn't like the theatricality of Isabella's presentation, and I had some of the same feeling (I more disliked the subtle conflation of submission with humiliation in the file I listened to). From this, she could tell me what worked well for her - direct commands rather than imagery, focus on bodily relaxation and modulation. In other words: my strengths as a hypnotist. Lucky!
The session with Pet Ferret, due to the sexual dynamics in place and Ferret's high susceptibility, was very much scene-scene-scene-negotiation-scene-scene-sexy times. Georgie's session was more stop-and-start, with a gradual working-up to each hypnotic suggestion.
So, the two of us met up and chatted a bunch about this and that, making all of the negotiation crystal clear. (This was very important to me because, as I stated before, she is not into cis men and I wanted to be absolutely clear about her limits.) The itinerary for the day was hypno bondage, freezing, maybe an orgasm, anything else to be negotiated as we went.
Euphoric after my handshake success with Ferret and hoping to play on pre-existing hypnosis knowledge, I asked Georgie if she had heard of handshake inductions. That was a no, which made the subsequent attempt really awkward. Making her aware of the fact that I was doing something unusual got her laughing when she felt the hand motions, so I took a break to explain what I was trying to do before moving on to a different approach.
I did my classic handy-dandy hands-stuck induction (with pocket watch as visual focus). This induction was one of the first I came across, and the one I used to put my first girlfriend under for the first time; the language I use is based on the heavy arm/light arm induction used in this story, the first piece of hypno-erotica I ever read. (Thank you, RC, for using painstakingly accurate induction techniques in your stories.) When I am in doubt, I go with this since I know my way around it so thoroughly. It has failed me exactly once, which was not with Georgie on this day.
After the induction, I led her through a feet-to-head progressive relaxation to deepen the trance, with particular focus on her breathing and her neck muscles. This led to a little bit of awkwardness since the couch she was sitting on was not really built for someone to lean back in. I then gave her the countdown-from-50 deepener; I had her do the counting while I continued on with a repetitive relaxation patter in the background. This worked, and she was clearly feeling very relaxed and calm by the end of it. I thought I'd move into one kind of hypnobondage by having her arms get really light; my intent was to have her arms rise upward and stay there, unable to be brought back down. However, while her arms moved with the jerky motion of someone in a deep trance, it looked to me that this wasn't the best way to go (the trajectory of her arms wasn't ideal for a bondage scene, the motion indicated that the "effortless" part wasn't quite in effect); I switched gears to make it a deepener, suggesting that her arms would fall back down and her whole body would relax even more once one of her hands touched her face.
I brought her back out, renegotiated where to go next, and she relocated to a nice, comfy chair in the room that let her sprawl out, relax, and prepare to be bound with her mind.
The ropeless bondage here was pretty simple stuff - arms up, hands stuck to the chair, feet stuck to the footrest. Due to that whole "no sexual contact" thing, I was unsure where to take the scene - asked if it was OK to tickle her, only to have her quite happily tell me (after I had started) that she wasn't ticklish. With a different subject, under a different dynamic, and in a different context, that would have merited a punishment. >:) But, since this was Georgie under this dynamic in this context, I put her back under, unbound her, relaxed her, and moved on to some freezing.
She liked this. I had her totally lock in place, unable to speak, when I said "Freeze, Georgie." She chose to be completely frozen, rather than able to speak like Ferret was. Her muscles remained relaxed despite being frozen - another sign of deep trance, and very cool. I always get a kick out of seeing different people's faces when they're frozen and mute. Most hypnotees' faces relax and go blank, staring straight ahead; a tiny, tiny percentage of people (including exactly one of my subs) will have frozen expressions on their faces, usually with their eyes going unfocused. Georgie's eyes kind of slid to the side and stayed there, which was interesting - more on this in a bit. Anyway, I put her in a few model-ish poses, but she was overcome with the giggles when I moved her to a sleepwalker/zombie pose; so I unfroze her and asked what she thought.
"That felt really cool!" She and I chatted a bit about the appeal of freezing to a kinky audience, as well as the way that subs who like being gagged always choose to be unable to speak while frozen. I froze her again after she enthused about the feeling, then we just kind of talked for a while about this and that (the discussion of audience led to some rich tangents).
Somewhere in that discussion, I recalled the time that I made an ex of mine forget a number. The chaperone then insisted that I have Georgie forget the number 4 (coincidentally the same number said ex forgot - the chaperone and I probably had the same thought process on it).
Having covered the big two phenomena I want to showcase at the demo, I asked if there was anything else she would like to experience. When asked for some ideas, I offered the idea of an extra-submissive headspace in addition to some amnesia. She was intrigued. So, in keeping with the style of suggestion I had been using (gradual, less overtly dominant, less overtly sexual), I gradually had her thoughts fall asleep, to be replaced in her head with my voice. Once that happened, I had her imagine all of her control, all of the stress and tension that comes from having control, getting sucked into my pocket watch, leaving her awash in a feeling of deep, powerful submissiveness. As I described waves of submission washing over her, I gave her the suggestion that she could not remember her name, that it would be replaced by her preferred submissive epithet ("pet," in this case).
I woke Georgie up in this submissive headspace - different from how I had done it with anyone else. Like when she was frozen, her eyes drifted to the side, becoming slightly downcast. I asked her if this avoidance of eye contact came naturally to her in this state, and she said she guessed so.
"What is your name?"
"Pet..."
"Has that always been your name?"
"No..."
"Can you remember what your name was before?"
"...almost!..."
"And now you feel it slipping away the more you try to remember it, feeling your name slip away more and more as you feel those waves of submissiveness wash over you, wash over your mind and being..."
After bringing her back to her full senses and determining that she really enjoyed that, we agreed to go for the hypnotic orgasm. I brought her back down into trance, established that she could use the classic "green/yellow/red" safewords during this scene, and asked her for some of her favorite sensations. In this case, being bound at the wrists. So, I stuck her wrists together and then suggested that they were tied to the ceiling by a very strong cable. Unlike many of the hypnobondage recipients I've tranced, she struggled a lot against the rope and seemed to really feel it and move her body to the best position possible to enjoy what came next.
Since we had agreed on no contact for this scene, I had Georgie open her eyes and watch the watch again, suggesting that as she watched the watch she felt fingers working her clit. When asked for feedback, she described the feeling as a "light buzzing"...I proceeded to suggest that it got stronger the more she looked at the watch. This didn't seem to work well, so, improvising time! The more she watched the watch, the heavier her eyelids felt, and the stronger the buzzing felt - until it doubled in intensity once her eyes closed. Her eyes melted shut, and she reacted quite visibly. Still bound by her own mind, starting to breathe heavily with arousal and sensation, I then suggested that the buzzing would double in intensity every time I snapped my fingers.
*snap*
"Feeling it more and more, feeling it building surely but steadily to a powerful orgasm..."
*snap*
*snap*
*snap*
This went on for quite a while, a gradual, sensual buildup that left her shaking, struggling against the mental bonds, subtly bucking her hips, until, as suggested, Georgie rasped out the word "ready" to indicate that she was ready to come. 5...4...3...2...1...ORGASM. Watching her savor the orgasm and start to feel the afterglow, I suggested that she could ride out the orgasm as long as she wanted, bask in the afterglow and the feeling of submissiveness and the relaxation of trance as long as she wanted, and that she would count herself back up to full wakefulness when she was ready. After a few moments of basking, she did just that, and woke up to say, "THAT was FUCKING FUN!"
We had a fun conversation at this point about how she didn't believe hypnotic orgasms were possible when she saw them advertised by Isabella Valentine, and my personal theory that certain hypno-fetish porn sites (if they use real hypnosis) probably suggest to the models that they will fake orgasms rather than have orgasms upon a trigger.
So, all of this over, we had a closing friendly chat and then both headed off to our separate obligations.
Her Fetlife status afterward:
"Wow! Didn't think anyone could have an orgasm from only hypnosis, but Spiral_Turquoise proved me wrong!"
All in all, a very interesting, very cerebral trance session where the extra work that I put into some suggestions paid off big time. Sessions like this - no sexual contact contact, doing slow buildups and more subtle submissive feelings instead of straight mindlessness - are a fascinating contrast to the kind of hot, passionate encounter that I had with Pet Ferret. Still thoroughly enjoyable, in a different way that is also deeply rewarding.
As is, both Georgie and Pet Ferret are alright with the idea of having some two-person scenes during the demo. This isn't something I expected to do, so I'm going to have to rework my idea of how this whole thing will go down to work in all the new possibilities here.
Chances are my next post will be the report from the demo. :D
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