What does it feel like to be hypnotized?

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Hypnosis is apparently a very popular sexual fetish among certain types of people, up there with vore, inflation and the like. Unlike with vore or inflation, you can actually be hypnotized for real, even if the way it's portrayed by fetish artists isn't necessarily accurate.

I've been curious about hypnotism actually looks like in a professional setting. Have any kiwis had any experiences with hypnosis?
 
I was always interested in hypnosis regression thanks to a paranormal encyclopedia ("Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time") but despite reading articles about how hypnosis helps with depression/anxiety never done it.
 
Hypnosis is a part pressure test. If everyone pressures you into believing you are hypnotized so you then quack like a duck when the conman snaps his fingers, then the assistant will mark your car with invisible ink to let other gypsies know you are an easy mark.
 
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Hypnosis is bullshit that only works on suggestibility, a state in which you’re already mostly hypnotized. It’s just an external force meant to help you push yourself mentally. You ever zone out? Stared in a mirror so long you dissoaciate? Thought about a word long enough it no longer makes sense? That’s all hypnosis is. It’s that brief moment of nothing clarity, before you start panicking. Then they whisper some bullshit in your ear and it’s supposed to help you do something. That’s it.

Fetish Hypnotism is just cartoon porn. It’s not real and it has nothing to do with “actual” hypnotism, and everything to do with BDSM.
 
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Mnutu said:
Hypnosis is bullshit that only works on suggestibility, a state in which you’re already mostly hypnotized. It’s just an external force meant to help you push yourself mentally. You ever zone out? Stared in a mirror so long you dissoaciate? Thought about a word long enough it no longer makes sense? That’s all hypnosis is. It’s that brief moment of nothing clarity, before you start panicking. Then they whisper some bullshit in your ear and it’s supposed to help you do something. That’s it.

Fetish Hypnotism is just cartoon porn. It’s not real and it has nothing to do with “actual” hypnotism, and everything to do with BDSM.
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This is the sort of answer I was looking for. I'm well aware fetish hypnotism is just that, a fetish. I was more curious about how someone might develope an interest in this sort of thing, especially if they'd never actually been hypnotized themselves.
 
A Clockwork Soybean said:
This is the sort of answer I was looking for. I'm well aware fetish hypnotism is just that, a fetish. I was more curious about how someone might develope an interest in this sort of thing, especially if they'd never actually been hypnotized themselves.
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Again, much like vore and inflation, it has almost nothing to do with the mundane reality of the topic, and everything to do with the weird sub/dom dynamic portrayed cartoonishly, combined with some sort of physical stimulation. In the case of vore, restriction, slime, and warmth; inflation, the sensation of being filled and the pain that comes from being full. For hypnotism, it’s the feeling of that trance-like state combined with whatever physical stimulation they’re being inflicted with.
 
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I got gifted a few sessions of 'stop smoking' hypnosis, by my then-gf. I was dubious about it being pointless- I'd always heard that hypnosis is basically fake. But it was a gift, money already spent, so I didn't want to waste it.

I went through the full 4 sessions that I was given, and despite my doubts, I really did try to go with it. The first few sessions, I just straight-up told the guy "Sorry, but this just isn't working. I feel completely normal". But he kept insisting that "No, it really IS working, you ARE getting hypnotized. You're just not noticing it!! You've just got the wrong the wrong idea of what to expect hypnosis to be like, from movies!!"

But every session, about 10 or 15min into the hypnotist's script, he did this kind of test, to see if you've "under", where he says "Your arms feel incredibly light, like helium balloons" He builds it up for a while, then he says "You arms are SO very light, that they're floating up in the air!! You're not TRYING to lift them- It's totally involuntary. But no matter how much you resist, you just can't stop your arms from floating up, above your head..."

The first few sessions, I guess I was still hoping all this crap MIGHT work, so I sat there, waiting for my arms to magically float up... which they didn't. We both just sat there like idiots, while he repeated that bit of the script, to no effect.

But the last two sessions, I thought "Fuck it. Maybe if I just play along, THAT will somehow make the hypnosis work" Or, it would be less awkward than hearing him repeat the "your arms are floating away" line 57 times, at least. So when he got to the "floaty arms" bit", I just play-acted it, and lifted my arms up. The hypnotist was rapt, saying it was "a breakthrough". But, obviously, I still felt nothing, it was all just a waste of time.

So after the final session, I said to the guy "Look, to tell you the truth, nothing really changed from my first sessions. I just deliberately, consciously lifted up my arms when you told me to. It wasn't involuntary- It was just exactly like any other time I decide to lift my arms." But again, he insists that no, I WAS really hypnotized, and in a trance, and that lifting my arms WAS involuntary.

That was like ten years ago, and I'm smoking a cig as I type this- I haven't gone 24 hours without smoking, since I was 15 or 16 or something.

Hypnosis is fake. Best case scenario, the people "in a trance" are consciously playing along, out of politeness, or out of social pressure to go along with what's expected of them.
 
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Hypnosis is bullshit and isn't real. It's the Clever Hans effect where you perform what they want to hear after they mentally pressure you. You're basically tricked into it. It's not real, at least not without the use of heavy mind-altering drugs.
 
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The most unrealistic part of the hypnosis fetish is people getting hypnotized against their will. It's simply impossible because hypnosis requires the subject to be open to suggestion and fully trusting the hypnotizer. If a subject is skeptical, distrustful or simply unwilling, they'll experience what @Snuckening described : just someone talking to them like a dumbass. I know I would be completely incapable of putting myself in someone's hands like that too.
 
I would imagine it's a lot like getting black out drunk. One second you're lucid, the next it's 6 hours later, you have several broken bones, your wallet stolen, and your ass is strangely wet.
 
Muttnik said:
Hypnosis is bullshit and isn't real. It's the Clever Hans effect where you perform what they want to hear after they mentally pressure you. You're basically tricked into it. It's not real, at least not without the use of heavy mind-altering drugs.
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If people can be influenced to perform what is being requested of them due to mental pressure, how is that not real?

Hypnosis works by tricking the conscious mind in to accepting these suggestions without raising it's defenses against the idea in question. It is an idea that lives in the heart of propaganda, a subject whose modern iteration popularized by men like Edward Bernays has shockingly close ties to a lot of similarly "discredited" ideas.
 
Kinda like when your alarm clock goes off on a lazy Sundy mornin' and you just go back to bed, but don't fall asleep right away. Maybe you hear cars going by, your dog walking around, your kids playing down the hall, but it's all being tuned out and warped into these weird dream snippets as you are teetering on the edge of sleep.
At one point I heard a fly klick-klacking against a window while the hypnotist was talking and woke myself up to look at it, I don't think your lil' bussy would be in any real danger during hypnosis.
 
Hypnosis is bullshit. The power of suggestion is real. I once made an entire room full of people go to 7-11 and get blue slurpees just by mentioning them offhandedly. They weren't hypnotized, they were just receptive to the idea because of the specific words I used. That's just how people are. Every salesman and advertising executive on Earth knows this fact well.
 
If it's something you're into trying out, self-hypnosis is the way to go: Ie, basically it's meditation (And hypnosis with someone "doing it to you" is guided meditation).

It feels a lot like the state you go into if you knit whilst watching TV (Other mindless hand-using hobbies are available - Whittling, chainmailling, flipping a coin over your knuckles, just anything where you are doing a repetitive motion and don't have to concentrate on it much) - Where you're either focused on the telly, and the knitting just magically completes itself in your hands, or you're focused on the knitting but somehow you still know what's happening on the show even if you think you weren't watching. Or, it sort of feels like when you're falling asleep and still "talking to yourself" in your head - Like you start being less and less aware of consciously "choosing" to have the thought, and it just kind of appears in your head instead. So the hypnosis part is teaching yourself to be able to access that state of mind voluntarily, by associating it with some other stimulus.

Fully though, it's nothing like stage hypnosis or kink hypnosis, both of which are basically party tricks around peer pressure and expectation - We culturally "know" what hypnosis looks like, so when someone says "I am a hypnotist, I am hypnotising you" people kind of "play along". Studies of basically "Can you hypnotise someone who has never heard of hypnosis before?" have all come back as negative.
 
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