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Out now: a recorded version of our class "Pacing, Leading, and Ambiguity"!

I'm so excited to share this!

This is a fully recorded-for-distribution video class on some really foundational, effective techniques for erotic hypnosis and NLP. It is about an hour long and covers topics like:

- Yes sets: the classic idea as well as expanding them to be more useful

- Pacing and leading: one of the most important parts of NLP that teaches you how to easily im...

Discount code for video classes!

Thanks so much for supporting me at this tier. This will be active for all future recorded classes that we do as well! Check out our new class for 40% off with the code "benkyousuru9". This will be active for all future recorded classes that we do as well!

Pacing, Leading, and Ambiguity: https://gum.co/lusDH&nbs...

Video class recordings coming & new $9 tier benefit!

Hi everyone! Got some really great news. cc and I spent a bunch of time reworking a class to be suited for recording and distribution, and it's rendering right now! It should be posted tomorrow. It's "Pacing, Leading, and Ambiguity" -- some really great foundational concepts for hypnosis (that come from NLP).

If you wish you could review our classes whenever you want, be able to pause/rew...

Hypnomancy: How to Read Your Partner Like a Tarot Card

I have been thinking for some time now about the parallels between the way that I practice hypnosis and the way that I have practiced different elements of magic. I’ve talked before about the role of ritual and symbolism in both -- the way that we assign power to concepts behind words, through metaphor and allegory. The motivations of seeking power or play. Even for someone like me, who does ...

Metaphors: Part One (Article)

Metaphors: Part One by sleepingirl

Metaphors are an oft-discussed part of language. They are an important device in creative writing, and we often talk about how they can fall under the category of Ericksonian techniques in hypnosis. We might think about using different metaphors to induce trance, and the way that people process them hypnotically. But it is just as hypnot...

Brainwashing to Reduce Hypnotic Agency by sleepingirl

Brainwashing to Reduce Hypnotic Agency by sleepingirl

The Brainwashing Book was a discussion of how to use operant and classical conditioning in order to make long-term practical changes in a hypnotic relationship (as well as improve our understanding of hypnosis as a whole). It is very much through the lens of behaviorism, because I felt that associative learning and con...

Black Friday / Georgia Runoff Sale

This week, 50% of my income will go to Actblue as a donation towards the GA runoff elections. 

Use code "iamthesenate" on https://gumroad.com/sleepingirl to get 30% off of everything, including The Brainwashing Book.

Or subscribe here, on Patreon.

This is a great opportunity to check out my articles if ...

Hypnotic Presuppositions (Article)

Hypnotic Presuppositions by sleepingirl

There are a number of language tricks that NLP outlines in its Milton Model -- the patterns that it asserts Erickson used in his hypnosis. Presuppositions are one of the most well-known and well-used examples, both in NLP and hypnosis as a whole. Let’s take a look at what a presupposition is, how it can be used, and how to find wa...

Update update

In case you didn't see on Fetlife or Twitter, the class that I mentioned in the last post (Rope&Hypnosis with me and cc) is unfortunately postponed -- we have a family emergency. The podcast is already recorded and everything else should be on schedule. Sorry everyone -- we'll reschedule ASAP.

Updates and schedules for content, classes, possible fundraiser etc :)

Hey everyone! What a week... also month... also year...

I wanted to reach out and let you all know the planned schedules for the podcast, writings, and other content! Stuff got really woogedy between me being sick for a week or two and us teaching and preparing for classes.

Firstly, the current schedule is: this coming Friday is podcast day, and the week after is an...

What Makes A Good MCStory by sleepingirl

MCStories are one of the cornerstones of how we as hypnokinksters engage with erotic content. For many of us, they were the first or primary way that we found our fetish even had others creating for it. “MCStory” used here is a proprietary eponym, kind of like “Kleenex” -- it’s generally how we refer to written hypnofetish or mind control fetish erotica because of the ubiquity of mcst...

Schedule update!

Hey everyone! If you follow me on Twitter you probably know that last week I was REALLY sick (some kind of awful stomach bug, ugh) which made me have to put everything on hold until I felt better. I'm almost at 100% now (yay!) so basically everything got pushed up a week -- next Friday will be the article (the poll for it is up now for $9 Patrons!) and After Hours should come sometime in the ne...

Tag Questions

Tag Questions by sleepingirl

There are many different distinct language patterns that we come across when we’re looking into hypnosis and NLP. The Milton Model of NLP especially tries to distill patterns from how Erickson talked and tranced. One of the most commonly adapted techniques is the idea of “tag questions” -- turning a suggestive statement into...

Next Article Topic Suggestions!

 Hey everyone! We finally got through the overview of the Milton Model! WHEW! We're doing something a little differently for next article -- a poll is already up for $9 Patrons with topics to vote on. If anyone has anything they'd like to suggest in terms of topic, whether it's an expansion on something, a personal essay, or anything else, please leave your suggestions here or DM me anywhe...

The Milton Model: Part Three

In parts one and two of this series of articles, we explored a foundation to where the Milton Model of NLP came from as well as some useful background knowledge to better understand the way it approaches hypnosis. NLP looks at its methods from a linguistic lens that can often be fairly convoluted, including grammar diagrams and obtuse discussions of language that may or may not hold up when stu...

Personal Reflection on Hypnosis and Magic by sleepingirl

I was fairly obsessed with magic as a child. I grew up in a secular household -- my mother’s side was mixed Christian but she didn’t inherit the beliefs and my father’s side was Jewish but not observant. We did Christmas and Chanukah and Easter for a little while but just as a cultural practice; we never went to church or synagogue and we never even had conversations about God.

I li...

New tier coming soon! What would you like to see? + Updates!

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well!

I've been feeling out my new schedule for the last few months since I've been focused on creating content, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable, so I'd like to expand and do a little bit more! Probably something once per month, but the question is, what?

Folks on Twitter were suggesting stuff like me doing audio recordings of my written content...

The Milton Model: Part Two by sleepingirl

In part one of this series of essays, we gave an introduction to how the Milton Model came about and some of the basics of its key topics. It’s important to remember that these essays are not a 1:1 look at NLP -- moreso, they are a way to view its practices in a more sensical way that fits with the lens that we look through as hypnokinksters. There will always be some debunking and some ignor...

Episode 72 After Hours

This was a really fun conversational kind of flow into really profound depth. We also are starting to record decompressing afterwards for a little extra! Enjoy!

The Milton Model: Part One (article)

The Milton Model: Part One by sleepingirl

Neurolinguistic Programming has a certain connotation, especially within the hypnokink community. We think of a particularly conversational or sneaky method of inducing trance, dependent on certain linguistic patterns and potentially relying on some form of coercion. It should be clear that this concept of NLP is a distorted one (...

A Few Thoughts About Fantasy (Article)

In hypnokink play, we often have fantasies that we seek, whether that comes from media or porn or personal desires that we have discovered on our journeys. In “The Brainwashing Book,” we went over a lot about scene-building and how imaginative fantasies can be metaphorical for change and play. In this writing, we’ll be looking from an adjacent angle about what it takes to pursue certain f...

Update+suggestions for next writing!

Hi everyone! Since this week/weekend is all about us getting ready to teach at Beguiled, we're going to shift our schedule up a week, which means that next Friday will be a new Two Hyp Chicks episode, and two weeks from then will be the next writing!

For the next article, I'm going to take topic suggestions (and recycle the ones that didn't get picked from last round)! As before, anyone c...

On a "Part Two" of the Meta Model by sleepingirl

The Meta Model of NLP was first formally introduced in 1975, before the term “Neuro Linguistic Programming” even existed. As we’ve discussed, NLP has evolved in a fairly complicated way over the years, contributed to by many practitioners with many different perspectives. As it became more clear that the Meta Model was just the foundations of the practice, not the whole, what happened to ...

How I’ve (Been) Changed Through Brainwashing by sleepingirl

How I’ve (Been) Changed Through Brainwashing by sleepingirl

As a content warning and as perspective, my relationship with MrDream fetishizes fantasies of abuse, victimization, and control. We play with a sort of nebulous blanket consent and our relationship is based on consensual nonconsent. Keep that in mind with this piece.

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Well, I g...

"Hypnotic Patterns" (hypnosis recording) -- THANK YOU FOR 100 PATRONS!

This is a special hypnosis recording I did for reaching my 100-Patron milestone. It's my usual conversational hypnosis and it's all about the idea of patterns. It is not explicitly erotic or gendered in any way, although hypnofetishists may find it exciting by nature of it being hypnotic. There is mild D/s mention about me having power and discussing the idea of natural change and learning abou...

Episode 70 After Hours Clip -- Subject Skills

A little bit of an evil twist on the idea of "teaching" good subject skills to cc... See for yourself :)

Episode 70 After Hours -- Subject Skills

A little bit of an evil twist on the idea of "teaching" good subject skills to cc... See for yourself :)

What would you like to see for the next article? Give me your suggestions!

Hi everyone! We're gonna do something a little different for the next article!

Do you have anything in particular you'd like to see explored? A question you'd like an in-depth answer to? Let me know! I'll take the suggestions that I can and present those topics/questions for voting-tier Patrons to vote on! This is your chance to have input!

Oh, and if you're not a Patron, and your a...

On an Introduction to the Meta Model (Article)

The Meta Model is the early foundation of Neuro Linguistic Programming; it was the starting point for everything that would come after. To understand NLP (and by extension, much of our hypnosis, as the community utilizes many parts of it), we must first understand the Meta Model. It is a bit difficult to summarize concisely, but one way of explaining it might be that it is a framework of how to...

On Becoming a Skilled Subject (Article)

On Becoming a Skilled Subject by sleepingirl

Question: Do you think hypnosis requires skill on the part of the subject as well as the hypnotist? If so, how have you developed those skills?

Answer: Definitely. I've thought a lot about this question so strap in for this answer.

What Is a Skill? 

Part of this question...