Hi all! It was suggested that I write an article about my developing experience with amnesia as a subject -- something that I've always had mixed success with but seem to be reaching bigger capabilities with now.
Curious, if I pitched this for folks to vote on: Would you rather it be a direct first-person article, where I talk candidly about my past and recent experience and growth? Or, s...
2022-10-10 17:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome! This post indexes all of my posts by type and content so it is easy to find. Check out my website for links to books, games, and other stuff!
Benefactor tier gets The Brainwashi...
2022-09-30 16:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a mini-zine containing an Ericksonian, mildly Discordian, probably Other-Things-ian hypnosis story. It contains hidden, secret knowledge, and also some obvious and not-so-obvious morals! Wow!
Is it hypnotic? I don't know! What crosses the line into hypnosis? It is available here, or in nice PDF form or printable/foldable physical form on 2022-09-29 20:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a mini zine with a few hypnotic poems. It is available here, or in nice PDF form or printable/foldable physical form on itch.io (preferred).
I cannot guarantee that:
Original thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1481283542156025857
Article that expands on this: https://www.patreon.com/posts/introduction-to-72380359
I really ...
2022-09-29 20:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1434902357553332225
Full article based on this topic: https://www.patreon.com/posts/value-of-and-56290333
One of t...
2022-09-29 19:57:53 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1438516146496409602
There's a discussion on reddit that's asserting that CNC can't be consensual unless there's a safeword in place. This is a horrifically bad take for a number of reasons.
CN...
2022-09-29 19:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1305517099067076609
Hypnosis is not a magical state. We go through many different kinds of trances and patterns during our days and lives and there is nothing special about them beyond that we have different experie...
2022-09-29 19:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1529109974877716486
I see people posting all the time. "I can't stop my brain." "I can't relax." "I can't focus." "I can't cum hands free."
Just stop. Stop trying to do those things. They are not necessary fo...
Original thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1567972659631386625
Don't get me wrong, I love the tropes and I think relaxation can be fun for hypnosis. But seriously if I could ban relaxation from trances for a week so that people had to get creative, I would.
<... 2022-09-29 19:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1569793925115957250
❌ "Induce trance to make suggestions"
✅ "Make suggestions based on a person’s psychology in order to hack them"
Trance is not what makes suggestions happen. (S...
2022-09-29 19:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Here's what I'm working on:
- Porting over all of my free/public writings to here including reddit posts, twitter threads, etc (expect a bunch of those to show up in the coming days, I'm sorry for all of your email inboxes)
- A MASTERPOST/INDEX OF EVERYTHING that will be pinned so everything is legitimately easy to find
- More audio articles ASAP!
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2022-09-29 19:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostMilton Erickson nears the status of a mythical figure in hypnosis -- indeed, some of the stories about him feel unbelievable. His style of therapy and suggestion have been the subject of intense study, especially as one of the pillars of NLP. But with this study and reproduction comes a sort of dilution or distortion of what we might call his actual techniques. All too often, “Ericksonian hyp...
2022-09-23 16:20:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi yall I am SUPER sorry but I'm going to have to postpone this week's article -- it is really nearly done but here's what's going on:
- I am visiting my family for the first time in a year this weekend (which I budgeted time for!)
- Two big very exciting things that I can't quite talk about yet came up VERY SUDDENLY and they are on a short deadline
If it was one or the other,...
2022-08-23 15:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! My schedule is WONKY the next month so I'm shifting around the timing of articles to come a bit earlier in the week. Here's the options this time around:
Subject skills: distractions. What can we do to handle different types of distractions in trance -- ones that come from our minds, bodies, or outside of us?
Ericksonian hypnosis. Erickson's...
2022-08-18 16:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostMaking Effective Suggestions by sleepingirl
While a goal-oriented approach to hypnosis is often not the best path, we still have desires as hypnotists to make suggestions that provoke an intense response. Hypnotic responsiveness is a highly dynamic and variable quality, but there are a couple of techniques we can use and ways of thinking that allow us to create suggestion...
2022-08-05 14:34:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! I was curious -- recently, I've been experimenting with cutting a little length off of my articles in favor of (hopefully) making them more streamlined and easily digestible. Not sure if folks have noticed but I've been relying a lot more on things like sections, bullet points, and examples.
Do you like this? Or would you prefer I go back to a wordier approach?
2022-08-01 15:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again!
What makes effective suggestions? An article exploring different qualities of suggestions that can (broadly) make them "easier" to accept.
Subject skills: distractions. What can we do to handle different types of distractions in trance -- ones that come from our minds, bodies, or outside of us?
BTW -- audio articles comin...
2022-07-29 15:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostA thrilling tool available to us in psychological play is the ability to influence our partners’ emotions. It can provide a sense of control and villainy that is both cutting and exciting -- how else could we best prove our power over another person’s mind than to make them feel something awful on a whim for our own pl...
2022-07-15 19:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostI have been feeling pretty rough over the weekend with some sort of maybe food poisoning thing, and am improving but still not great :( we'll see how the week goes but may need to wait and see how stuff goes. Sorry y'all! Want to get to writing etc ASAP!
Edit: I am feeling a lot better today and eating real food! Making great progress on the Emotional Sadism article and on track to finish...
2022-07-12 02:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostVery cool that there's no way for me to make a legit poll on mobile, Patreon. Very cool.
I'll put the article options as comments -- please "like" the one you want and I'll check back on Monday :)
"Emotional Sadism": how to be mean and prey on someone's insecurities
"Subject Skills: Managing Distractions": how to worth through different types of distractions
Cool Tips 4 Hypnosis by sleepingirl
Sometimes going over the “big picture” of how hypnosis works is useful, but other times we’re looking more for little tricks and tools that we can pick up to add more to our trancing. In this article, we’ll be going over a few tips that are more specific and simple, but still work to teach some of the foundations of trancework b...
2022-06-10 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time!
- Subject Skills: Managing Distractions: We could continue our exploration of subject-oriented topics by discussing ways to get past distractions: physical, external, or internal (psychological) with a few exercises and skills to work on in these areas.
- Cool Tips 4 Hypnosis: Been thinking of a grab bag of a few ideas that I think are re...
2022-06-04 22:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostTry this on for size: "I have a cold so I can't read the cold reading article."
I'm mostly better from being sick, but my voice is still throaty/nasaly so the next audio article will have to wait! Should be next Friday <3
2022-05-24 19:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the idea of “cold reading” may conjure connections to magicians, divination, and pick-up artistry, the underlying concept -- the ability to read a person without much knowledge of them -- is critically useful in hypnokink. For one reason or another, the hypnotic experience is drastically changed when the subject has confidence that the hypnotist knows what they are feeling. In this ar...
2022-05-20 17:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Heeeeere's our article options for this week!
- Cold Reading: I truly believe the ability to "read" things about a person -- even if you know barely anything about them -- is one of the absolute most important skills in hypnosis, and I'd really love to talk about ways to do it. Telling someone that you know things about them is gamechanging in how they respon...
2022-05-15 15:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Here's the audio recording for the More Double Binds article! I'll also be putting out another audio article next week :) Enjoy! As always, there's some unmarked hypnotic language examples, so be aware!
2022-05-06 18:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostSubject Skills: The Active Mind by sleepingirl
By far one of the most common experiences reported by hypnotic subjects of all skill levels is the desire to shut off, slow down, or otherwise quiet their mental activity during hypnosis. Some people -- especially those new to hypnokink -- find thinking to be limiting during their trances; they feel that it causes them to not...
2022-04-22 18:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post- "Ericksonian perspectives on hypnosis" (from last round): I'm deeply enjoying my way through Erickson and Rossi's "Hypnotic Realities" and it's showing me more than ever that Erickson's hypnosis goes way beyond what people commonly think of as Ericksonian. I'd love to talk about his model from our perspective and how I feel it applies to erotic hypnosis.
- "Skil...
2022-04-16 21:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostMore Double Binds by sleepingirl
We’ve discussed double binds in detail, including an exploration of where they came from, how NLP uses them, and ways that we can use them more broadly in hypnokink. But when we consider their function more than their form, we can start to see applications that may not be included in their original design. Let’s look from a specificall...
2022-03-24 17:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post