How do you know if hypnosis works?

[Like Ra]

I will move the latest posts to a new thread.

I will move the latest posts to a new thread.

The tulpa thread might not be a bad place for it.

Disregard, the recent posts on the free will board are perfect companions.

After more hypno sessions, some completely awake and others just before falling asleep, I can conclude that for me hypno is not exactly working the way I imagined, but it does work to a pleasurable degree. I feel more focused and calm after each session, I'm not entirely sure I'm 'addicted' as some of the files suggest, but feeling all relaxed is a nice thing after a busy day.

There is only one little problem with the files I hear... I'm already obsessed, and most files presume I'm new to my fetish so they end up trying to convince me of accepting my deep little secret. I don't need to surrender, I already did many years ago 😁 . And there is this common phrase of 'going deeper and deeper' which I find somewhat repetitive. I understand it is a standard technique, but after 2 hours of repeatedly hearing hypno files, I don't know how much more deeper I need to go.

Here is a series of lectures on hypnosis at a college in England:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...V4NbPS6eMw

I found the lectures to be enlightening. In them the professor talks about the Stroop(?) test. Where they show you text "Blue","Red","Green", etc.Your goal is to identify the color the text is written in. Often the color of the word "Blue" was a yellow color or something. People had a significant delay identifying the color of this mis-match. However, when people were hypnotized to not be able to read the text, their delay identifying the colors the text was written in dropped by something like half. Showing scientifically that hypnosis works and has a measurable effect.

Remembered another hypnosis results example:

"Can You Enlarge Your Breasts Just By Thinking Them Bigger?"
https://www.vernoncoleman.com/enlarge.htm

This is a write up of a fun study I'd read about multiple places. Participants in a clinical trial used self-hypnosis grow their breasts larger with measurable results. The academic summary I found didn't go into the details like this web page does. I always wondered if it would work for guys too. Never been courageous enough to try it out myself.

[Like Ra]

"Can You Enlarge Your Breasts Just By Thinking Them Bigger?"

Yep: https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/Thread...n-hypnosis