Inhibitions and Morality

One of the great things about hypnosis is that the subject, regardless of how deep they are in trance, will not go against his or her own morals. Despite what Hollywood may portray, you're not going to have a hypnotized subject jumping off a bridge or committing murder for you. In the teachings of Freud, this moral system is known as the "super ego", and will override the id and the ego when necessary.

I believe that a lot of people have a mistaken view of the extent of morality. From my experience and studies, most people have very few moral objections. These usually include items affecting life, self-preservation, honesty, and loyalty.

However, if you ask a person about their morals, they'll get into various things that fall into the classification of inhibitions. These include many sexual limits, including multiple partners, bisexuality, certain sexual acts, and public nudity or acts. On a smaller scale, you can see this in any hypnotist stage show. If you've ever known someone who became a subject in these shows, you'll often see them do something that they'd never do in a normal state. This isn't pushing their moral limits, but a social inhibition. You'll see them dance with a broom, cluck like a chicken, or pretend to be a stripper. Can you imagine them doing this at the local bar (before alcohol)?

The value of this is obvious. I work with submissive women who are willing to push their limits. What they are surprised by is what limits they are actually able to push, and how far they can push themselves in hypnosis. How fun!!

You Will Not be Able to Resist This...

Once I figured out what I was doing, I had quite a few successes with triggers, commands, and instructions. The challenge is not in the suggestions themselves, but in getting the subject to the point where they can accept the suggestions and act on them at an appropriate time. This is mainly done through repetition. For instance, imagine when someone gives you detailed directions how to get to their house. The first time you visit them, you spend a lot of energy watching for milestones, wondering about turns, and thinking you may have missed something or turned the wrong way. Once you've been there, the next time you visit, you're more confident and can go without as much effort. After a few more times, you don't think about it at all and easily get there as if on autopilot. Getting to a deep, obedient trance is the same type of system. Either way, once you're there, it's time for the good stuff!

Here's a brief list of some of the things my subjects have successfully obeyed. This is by no means a complete list, but these are definitely interesting. A lot of these ideas came from sites in my links section. Items marked with an asterisk (*) have worked on all previous subjects.

Triggers

• Trance Now*: A quick induction trigger. This one is re-emphasized and strengthened each time, allowing for quicker, deeper trances.
  
• Mannequin*: The subject becomes a mannequin, unable to move, but able to still see and feel.
• Blank*: The subject cannot see, hear, or think. They have no memory of their blank time. The only thing they can respond to are other triggers. I use this a lot in conjunction with other triggers, which allows me to give the option on all of amnesia or full recall.
• Command-Obey*: On the word command, the subject goes blank and waits for the command. The word obey completes the command. Comes in very handy for random commands or triggers you want to install without doing a full induction.
• Skirt Now*: The subject immediately feels the desire to wear a short skirt, believing it to be her own idea.
• Horny Now*: The subject immediately feels an increase in sexual desire. Multiple triggers of this will multiply the effect.
  
• Relaxation: This subject would get very worried and tense at different things. This trigger (self-triggered when necessary) helped with that.
• Naked Surge: Whenever the subject took off the last item of clothing, a surge of pleasure would rush through her body for a few seconds. This showed the power of the subconscious mind over the body, even when awake. All subjects but the first one had this trigger.
• Maid Outfit: One subject purchased a sexy maid outfit at some point. I gave her the trigger that any time she cleaned, she felt the need to wear only this outfit.
  
• Slave collar: My latest subject has a slave collar, so while she usually only acts the role of a slave in private, the collar immediately makes her take on that role anywhere.

Commands

• Taste of Cum*: All subjects are taught to enjoy the taste of cum. My first subject asked for this specifically. It's fascinating to me that the sense of taste can be controlled like this, especially for something that's flavor changes every time.
• Attraction to women: One subject requested an increased attraction to women. This was well into her training, and came out of my theory on inhibitions. I'll post the theory at a later date, but the command was a success. This subject quickly became my date to strip clubs!
• Cum on Command*: This is my favorite command, and surprisingly easy to do. Like the deepening, it takes a couple of times to get completely comfortable, but I can now bring a girl back and forth from the edge of orgasm and a state of no excitement in a split second.
  

Instructions

• Nail biting: One subject had a bad nail biting issue. A combination of relaxation and substitution took care of it.
• Focus: Very useful for one subject who was in school and easily distracted.
  
• Heat, Cold, Pain, Light, Vibration*: The range of sensations can be caused while in a trance as well as through triggers. These include physical reactions, such as sweating, goose bumps, tears, and pupil dilation.
• Time*: It's amazing how much the sensation of time can be manipulated. I've had subjects who were in trance for an hour insist it was five minutes, and vice versa.
  

Do you have other ideas for me? Post a comment and let me know!

The Keys to Success

(As you may have noticed, my posts are kind of spread out. I posted these first few posts all at once, but I composed them over time as the desire struck. I wanted to have all my background posts up before I got into some of my current activities.)

The lack of initial success was very disappointing to me. I tend to be demanding of myself, so instead of appreciating my new found ability to induce trance, I scoured all the resources I could find to better understand the process. My breakthrough came in confidently setting expectations with the subject over a few days before the trance, combined with the discovery of a four helpful deepening tricks.

In my initial trials, I was still learning what was possible or not. You read lots of things on the Internet, but it's hard to tell what is true, and what is wishful thinking (I'm still waiting to meet the person who changed their gender through hypnosis). I did find some very valuable information, based on works from Freud, as well as studies of the works of Mesmer through Erickson. I also found a very radical theory from an Ivy League psychologist that I'm still trying to completely implement, but helped me greatly.

In addition to these sites, I found good examples of the exact things I was trying to do in a couple of other blogs and sites. These are all listed on my links section.

Based on my new information, I took any opportunity over the next few days to explain to my subject how the trance worked. I strongly tied it to the idea of id and ego from Freud, since she already understood these. I also explained how she had to work to get deeper, but that just like a path in the woods, each time you walk it, it becomes easier and clearer. I also developed a new theory of submission, that the conscious and subconscious can submit separately. This became very helpful, as you'll see shortly. I did this based on the theory of "demand characteristics", that the subject will exhibit the traits that the hypnotist expects. I won't get into the psychological studies of this, but I found some references to work in the 40's and 50's.

The next time I brought her into a trance, this was the knowledge she used as the basis for her trance. By better framing what the trance would be, I believe her subconscious would create the trance as I wanted it to be, and would better be able to plant triggers and suggestions for when she was awake.

Once she was in trance, I used four new deepening tricks. First, and most simply, I became must more authoritative in my speech during the entire process. My initial scripts were more based on the idea of guiding a subject, this time I became more commanding, especially by using the phrases "obedient", "unable to resist", etc. Second, I gave her a visualized gauge that she would be asked to check periodically to report on how deep she was in trance. As she saw herself deeper, it made the authoritative commands stronger. Third, I gave her a mechanism for deepening her trance. Instead of using only passive visualizations, like a ride down an escalator, I gave her a large knob she could turn, and each turn would bring her deeper into trance. This active visualization definitely worked much better. Lastly, I "separated" her conscious and subconscious minds. I had her visualize her conscious mind in a room she normally enjoys, then had her subconscious step through a doorway and locked her conscious mind in the room. This visualization helped her focus completely on the trance.

Using the above techniques now on an ongoing basis, I've now worked successfully with a few subjects. In my next post, I'll get into some of the triggers, commands, and changes I've been able to make.