Below is a short guide about hypnosis, written for this group and for shameless SEO purposes. To learn about hypnosis kink, you can also read guides like https://www.learnhypnokink.com

What is Hypnosis Kink?

Hypnosis is that it isn’t magic, mind control, or anything like that.

That doesn’t make it any less powerful, as meditation and hypnosis is supported by mainstream science and medicine to be an incredibly powerful thing that is capable of hacking the brain and actual physiology in astounding ways. Building strong associations and triggers, changing the ways you may feel or think about a topic, and intense visualization felt like a lived experience and memory are all possible.

While meditation has many beneficial effects, hypnosis itself is not a substitute for therapy, nor a solution on it’s own to any problem. Many experienced subjects and hypnotists consider subjects seeking solutions or hypnotists claiming they have them to be red flags.

The other half of it is the “conversational” or “covert” hypnosis. It’s taking all the same patterns used within guided trances outside of them. The catch here is that everyone is different! What works to effect one person may not another, because we all have different backgrounds and different understandings about what words are or mean.

How to try and learn hypnosis kink?

Meditation can be a great way to practice hypnosis subject skills on your own. Likewise, you’re topping and hypnotizing someone, knowing meditation well will give you lots of good ways and structures to think about things.

*wink wink nudge nudge* this FAQ is mostly written for Google. For a more thorough overall guide to hypnosis, check-out https://www.learnhypnokink.com

Hypnosis play risks? Consent in Hypnosis?

For many, visualization in hypnosis is like an actual lived experience, retained like a real-life memory. Depending on what you experience, you may have lasting effects which may be undesired. (Or to some, these lasting effects are desired, even if uncomfortable!)

Hypnosis has a way of providing very intense attention and very quickly making you like the hypnotist and quickly creating emotional connection. There are dependency risks. I’ve written some about that here: https://fetlife.com/users/1585865/posts/10493535 / https://seradeep.com/minneapolis-kink-education/risk-aware-kink-hypnosis/

I don’t consider hypnosis itself to be consensual non-consent, but induction (guided meditation) can lower inhibitions and affect judgement, and triggers can have effect regardless of desire for them to when thoroughly practiced. Induction follows a relatively traditional pattern of ongoing affirmative consent but any play after it does not. If you are interested in additional safety models for play beyond on-going consent, I’ve written a guide about CNC here: https://fetlife.com/users/1585865/posts/10091633 / https://seradeep.com/demystifying-cnc/

I also don’t consider hypnosis itself to be edgeplay, but this post will likely end up discussing some in its lifetime, so tagging it.

Basic Hypnosis terms and Simple Hypnosis definitions

  • Subject: The person “being hypnotized.” Some people prefer the term “hypnotee”
  • Hypnotist: The person guiding/talking.
  • Induction: Guided meditation to get into a trance (“listen to my voice and take a deep breath…”)
  • Suggestion: Offering an idea, thought or feeling.
  • Trigger: An association between one idea/word/thought and another. This may or may not take the form of something like snapping fingers and being drowsy, or saying a word and feeling something.
  • Priming: Expectations set inside or outside of sessions that help make trance easier.
  • Rapport: Comfort with each other built inside or outside of sessions that helps make trance easier.