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!  

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.

Public Play at a Slosh!

"So, every time she hears the word, she feels a hard spank on her...which side was it? I think it was left."

"Um...I can't remember. Use it so I can see."

"Order."

"[wince] ...Right side."
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So, the other night I went to a slosh in town with Georgie, Eve, and Miomi. Georgie and I had gotten in touch the day before, and she told me that Eve was giving her a set of protocols and commands for the evening. Not one to be upstaged, I asked if she would like any hypnotic triggers for the evening - and she enthusiastically wrote up a list of requests.

First, I popped over to Georgie's place to refresh and reinforce her existing triggers as well as add some of her requests. [Lots of "re" words in that sentence.] I triggered her into subspace, commanding her to repeat the mantra "I am a docile, obedient pet" to deepen her submission.

Once that was done, I used her trance trigger and worked on creating a more mindless trance that we could use for amnesia and sensation triggers - she wanted to try a "time stop" freeze trigger that left her unaware of what happened while she was frozen, as well as some more complex behaviors that she would forget afterward. Well, the unawareness and amnesia parts didn't quite work out - but we got a new state out of the attempt, a state where she was a mindless puppet with no thoughts, no feelings, just obedience. I ordered her to bring me a glass of water, and watched as she sleepwalked through the task and brought it to me. She didn't like this state as much as her subspace trigger - she felt less like she was compelled to obey and more like she had nothing better to do than follow my orders. The subspace trigger also gave her more room for happy-go-subby kind of feelings. Still, the state seems like it will be useful for other suggestions we've thought of doing down the line - and her preference gives me a few ideas, too. >:)

The puppet trance (as we ended up calling it) was handy for setting up some sensation triggers. After trying out a few different ones, I settled on giving her a mild pleasure trigger (usable by Eve and me) and an open trigger for feeling a hard spank (as detailed in the introduction of this post). She wanted it open, so I figured I'd use a word that would come up naturally at a slosh, what with the waiter taking everyone's orders and all the doms talking about the orders they give their subs. Didn't seem to work out quite like that (the conversation in the intro was started when Georgie and I explained to Eve and Miomi why we were disappointed with the waiter's word choices), but she and I nevertheless had fun all night with the trigger.

First, though, we continued the prep session with a few brief scenes: I froze her and put her in a nice glamor pose [...I messed up the photograph of it, though], then dropped her into subspace. I had her give me a shoulder rub, then put her on all fours for a quick spanking. Brief, but very, very hot for both of us. :D

Anyway, at the actual slosh, I spent a little bit of time giving Georgie her orders and quick bits of pleasure, showing both triggers off to Eve. Eve herself was responsible for putting restrictions on Georgie's clothing and speech, although I did not get to see how much that played out. I did get to watch when Eve had Georgie go to the bathroom and discreetly hand Eve her panties upon returning, which Eve pocketed for the night. After that, the two of them headed out to join the smoke-break crowd while I stuck around inside to chill with Miomi and meet some new people.

One of those new people was a lady relatively new to the group, who shall be called Joan, who was slightly skeptical and very curious about hypnosis. I explained some of the various applications, perhaps not terribly well, before the conversation moved on a little. Once Georgie and Eve came back inside, though, I brought Georgie over to give Joan a practical demonstration. I froze Georgie, and posed her while explaining that I could move her around like a doll or action figure - and Joan exclaimed that it was totally hot. I then bound Georgie's hand to the table we were sitting at to show the bondage applications. The two of us expounded to Joan about hypnotically induced orgasms and other cool bits...and Joan asked if hypnosis could be used to inflict pain, too. So I gave Georgie an order, and Joan's skepticism faded a lot once she say Georgine jumping in her seat at the word.

Georgie then egged me on to try a handshake induction on Joan, but I found the double-talk surrounding the negotiation very uncomfortable - I've obviously had a few fails with the Ericksonian handshake, and wasn't feeling very confident about it. So, once Joan got fed up with the two of us talking in circles and demanded to know if she was getting hypnotized or not, I went with the handy-dandy hands-stuck induction on her. Her face was very animated as I froze her hands together, with a few visible grimaces of effort and/or surprise when she couldn't pull her hands apart. I hit my stride with my patter and speed-relaxed her [how's that for a bizarre contradiction in terms?], then, since she seemed so enthused by watching it, froze her in place using that same patter, having her relaxation turn to stiffness, and posed her a little so that she could get a feel for it.

I then brought Joan out of trance, and she was quite happy with the experience - she was fascinated with how she felt like she was going along with what I said, but nonetheless she could not move when I froze her. Georgie and I introduced her to Eve before the night was over, and the three of us headed out (Miomi found some other people to hang out with to end the night). The possibility of a play party down the line was brought up...that would be awesome if it ever occurs. :)

So...that night rocked. Unfortunately, I had an early morning the next day, so I couldn't stick around Georgie's place afterward while she and Eve checked out some outfits to incorporate into our play. But then, that play will be happening, so I'm quite looking forward to it!

Switching with Miomi

Life has been crazy lately. Crazy awesome, but still crazy. So there hasn't been much time for sexytimes, and even less time for blogging about them.

(Technically, there has been time, but other things have kept me busy and feeling like I shouldn't be blogging.)

So, in the time that I haven't been blogging, I had an utterly excellent session with Miomi. We met at a munch - she was new to the group and very shy, so my friends and I invited her to join us for a lengthy hang-out afterward. 'Twas good fun, and she and I got in touch later to schedule a hypnosis session.

Since she's a cuddly one, I went with a progressive relaxation induction with cuddles and petting. Great way to do an induction, since it's effective, simple, and has some neat dominance overtones to it. She was a great example of Lady Ru'etha's declaration that "depth is bullshit" - Miomi didn't go incredibly deep, but she was in a highly suggestible state that allowed for all kinds of fun.

Miomi's a furry - wolf fursona - which gave me some imagery to play with. I prefer to tailor my suggestions, terminology, and dominating style to the person I'm domming - and having something like the furry "fursona" gives me something to guide my choices. I played into pet/master gestures the whole session. I enjoyed the way she whispered "Mmm...scritches" every single time I tickled/scratched her under the chin, like it was automatic (I think my love of hypnotic triggers speaks to why I would find that hot). Building off these gestures, I channeled it into some petplay, turning her into an obedient wolf cub through hypnotic suggestion. It was more of the same, with the addition of her words being replaced with growls as she padded around on all fours...she liked it a lot. :)

[Just an aside: what is the DEAL with the hate-on for furries?! I don't see it as much around Fet, but, for crying out loud, it's just people who like anthropomorphized animals. And the furry fetishists are seriously no weirder than other fetishists...I'm turned on by blank stares, monotone voices, people holding poses for a long time, and all kinds of odd things, you can't tell me that's any less odd than being a furry.]

Miomi let me try something that I had never gotten to do before: making a non-ticklish person ticklish! I've wanted to do this ever since I first made a ticklish person feel nothing while getting tickled. She's not completely un-ticklish...but tickling her normally requires some deep digging into her sides. Anyway, this gave me a fun way to dominate her, pinning her down with a burst of tickles after triggering her ticklishness. I also did an awesome ropeless bondage scene with this, where her arms were bound to the bedposts and her legs were covered by pillows - each pillow hypnotically suggested to be too heavy to move. Then I swooped in for the tickle torture and whatever other pleasurable avenues I chose to take. >:D

At one point, I also gave her a hypnotic ball gag. She was impressed by how well she felt it holding her mouth open as I took the opportunity to play with her...

Aside from these novelties, the session had a lot of the fun tricks that I've done with Georgie and Pet Ferret: vulva-hands, freezing, robot. Miomi didn't seem particularly attached to the hypnosis effects outside of the unique sensations and petplay...she said that being hypnotized felt like just another way to be submissive, and just as good as feeling subby through other means. So, due to her blanket go-ahead in the negotiation, I demonstrated a lot of things to see if any of my favorites struck her fancy (she's quite curious, and was up for anything I threw at her), then focused on sensation-oriented suggestions like the ticklishness trigger and the vulva-hands when that seemed to come out on top.

The vulva-hands scene was quite excellent, as it happens. Miomi registered it differently than Georgie does - she felt the sensations on her palms duplicated on her clit, rather than experiencing her hands as erogenous zones. It still led to her panting and moaning facedown into the bed as I worked both hands to create a nice, powerful doubled sensation. I might have to work on really mapping out this whole hands = vulva deal so that I can mix up the pleasure I provide with it.

Toward the end of the session, the control of the session shifted toward Miomi. As she put it, she had such a fantastic time subbing for me that she repaid the favor by letting me get all subby.

(How's that for a reversal of the stereotyped dynamic...I've read chances to dominate described as rewards in stories and in people's perceptions of BDSM. Here, subbing was seen as the position with the greater capacity for pleasure, and therefore the more rewarding position between a pair of switches.)

Now, when I'm domming, I tend to focus extensively on giving my partner pleasure. Subbing for Miomi helped me articulate one of the reasons why I do this: when I am receiving a lot of pleasure, "in control" is one of the last phrases I'd pick to describe myself. In this case, with Miomi scratching my neck just right (she found a sweet spot that I didn't even know existed...), I was a curled up little ball of submissiveness who couldn't manage much more thought or speech than a meek "Thank you, ma'am." My eyes closed naturally as I curled up to her (I mentioned in my last post how much I enjoy blindfolds - lack of vision reinforces that feeling of losing control, and also helps me focus more on the stimulation that I am feeling), and then her hot breath against my ear, and the gentle nibbles and the licks, drove me into incoherence. I simply felt all need to have control slip away from me, and I melted against Miomi.

I guess I have to emphasize here how much my sensitivity affects the way that I process pleasure. To me, feeling pleasure can be absolutely overwhelming. Intimidating, even. For example, I love a good low-key backrub, but a more advanced one (like the truly amazing ones Georgie does!) will have me thrashing in ecstasy, and I'll need to ask for a break after just a few seconds. This is probably why I am the first person to list "pleasure torture" as a fetish on Fetlife - the intensity of some pleasure is so great for me that I have to ask for mercy, and prolonged pleasurable acts (such as hot breath on my ears) feel wonderful and scary at the same time. Miomi really drove this home with the skilled way that she worked my neck and ears - any hint of dominance collapsed under the onslaught of sensation.

(So...I guess this is my subspace? Triggered by intense pleasure, leaving me meek and reactive while I close my eyes and don't speak much.)

She slipped into the role fluidity really well, too! It sort of went back and forth as each of us would do these little dominating gestures to shift control one way or another. For the climax of the session, I put her back under and gave her the suggestion that her desire to get topped again would grow the more she topped me, until she was absolutely ready to go back to subbing. Then I indulged my subbiness for just a touch longer than she wanted, before taking back firm control with her trance trigger and bringing her to her knees. >:)

(Can't say that this suggestion affected much...it basically played into how the two of us were feeling anyway...)

So, to sum up: fun, fun session. Also probably the single longest one-on-one erotic hypnosis session that i have done. Miomi enjoyed it muchly - and I got an even more delicious taste of the subby side of things, which helped me better articulate some aspects of my sexuality. That's pretty much cool outcomes all around!

Threesome, Pheromones, and Velociraptors

SO, as I alluded to at the end of my demo report - after the demo, Georgie, Eve, and I headed back to Georgie's place for some further fun, which resulted in my first multiple-person encounter of any kind.

I don't know that I'll be able to write very coherently or sexily about the whole thing, so I won't. I didn't get into my uber-cerebral topspace, so I didn't have the kind of attention to detail that I had during the other encounters I've blogged about. It was also a lot less linear than my other encounters...this was much less about doing a bunch of hypnosis scenes and more about having a whole lot of fun that happened to involve lying around with very little clothing. Hypnosis was not the focus of the fun throughout the night - rather, it was a way to facilitate a few choice scenes. I used it to heighten both Eve's and Georgie's sensitivity; I brought back Georgie's vulva-hands so that Eve and I could evenly divide the task of pleasuring her; we did a scene where the two of them felt everything that happened to the other; I used freeze triggers as a way to escape getting tickled; Georgie continued to absolutely love her submissive headspace (Eve tried it out, but, being a switch and a brat, didn't go as happy-go-subby as Georgie did). Otherwise? The whole night involved a ton of cuddling and cheery fun.

This kind of hazy and playful atmosphere is what led to "velociraptors." Georgie getting clever as she and I worked over Eve led to my complimenting her on her initiative - and Eve following up with a Jurassic Park "clever girl." It became our all-purpose silence-breaker.

Eve also introduced me to all-out brattiness. Georgie got very into her subbie-ness, but Eve playfully fought me at every turn. I had never played with a bratty sub/switch before - this was a lot of fun and a nice change. Eve being a switch was, itself, an awesome part of the whole dynamic - she and I would take turns domming Georgie around, or I would enlist Georgie to top Eve, or Eve and Georgie would gang up on me with tickles, or we would all just go nuts finding ways to make one another feel good.

There was a lot of experimentation all around - I got to try out spanking (hurt my hand getting up to Eve's pain tolerance), really got the hang of hair-pulling, got a tiny taste of getting topped. Georgie had a lot of fun taking advantage of my incredibly high sensitivity - whether through tickling or through shoulder massage (which led to my exclamation, "I feel like I'm having an orgasm in my back!"). I also tried dishing out verbal degradation - I didn't find it as unappealing as I thought I would, but I much preferred watching Eve do it to doing it myself.

Then there was the biggie from the night - at least to me, on an intellectual level. As mentioned in the demo report, Georgie has an aversion to cissexual men that she credits to some kind of pheromone/chemical reaction. [Interesting note: she said that she doesn't count me as cissexual. I take that as a compliment!] Say what you will about whether it actually is pheromones or whatever, that's not terribly relevant. Anyway, at some point in the evening, Georgie said that she wished she didn't have that reaction so that she could cuddle with me. The two of us had the same brainwave at the same time, which she voiced: "You could use hypnosis...!" So I gave her the suggestion that my scent/pheromones/presence would not affect her adversely, that she would regard me as a woman on that chemical level. "You smell like estrogen!" she squealed as she got close. At her request, I let this suggestion stick at the end of the night.

I keep thinking that there has to be some kind of ethical ramification to using hypnosis to become the exception to somebody's sexual orientation. She found me appealing on an aesthetic/intellectual level already; the only intent of this suggestion was to make physical contact comfortable for her. And it absolutely would not work if she didn't want it to work. Still...well, I don't know. I feel that Georgie and I have strong rapport and good communication, so I think I'm on solid ethical ground here. Maybe I've just read too many stories on the EMCSA about innocuous suggestions turning disastrous.

Overall - very enjoyable night. We all had a great time and agreed to do it again. Next time, Eve's going to tie me up...oh dear.

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. :)

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