How do you know if hypnosis works?

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

I've went into most hypnosis stuff head first, wthout fear. I was never scared it would make me do things i don't like and so far it was pleasant and mystical. I did mainly Bimbofication/IQ-Reduction stuff, and yes i can drop pretty deep sometimes, forgetting everything from one moment to the other, blank stare, not a thought, while the entire body tingles etc. And yes sometimes this feeling is so strong that it just happens, even if i am doing other things at the moment. So yes, i would say it fully worked, however, It never happened in awkward moments, when i needed my brain it was always there. As soon as someone talks to me, i am no longer in trance. Even if i wanted to show them, it would not work, i could slowly unveil parts, but others most often don't understand at all what is going on...

With Max Harms files, there is one that tries to make you not understand what others are saying. I played along and it really happened, i made myself hear only garbage and let that wash over me. When my partner talked to me, and all i heard was gibberish that literally just washed over me, i got scared and that went away. It has not come back yet... idk how i did it, but i really focused on mishearing sounds. Drawing syllables where there were none, focusing fully on fricatives instead of vowels or something. Although i did not look through his script, i don't think he gave those explicit instructions, but rather my horny brain just wanted to be so dumb, to no longer understand others, and thus invented its own strategies to follow the suggestion.

Any seed needs a fertile substrate to grow in. And they are just that, seeds, tiny suggestions, that the willing subject can "make their own" and cultivate the plant growing from that seed. A subject could make themselves develop ideas without the hypnotist and then assume, that those were the effects of the hypnosis. Well yes, and no, but i do not like it when people say or assume hypnosis is more powerful than the mind of the subject. Like, yea i get the kink there, but why pretend? To fully fool those susceptible enough to fall for that lie, and keep the rest confused in a kinky fiction?

PS: Also, i know how those things work, i can feel my mind responding. The way IQ reduction works, is by inducing a stupor, the brief moment when you blank, teaching the subject to deepen that stupor, to let it happen more quickly, to set more and more triggers for it to happen more often, and to fully intertwine erotic bdsm fantasies into the mix, imagining sensations that then reverberate, to sweeten that stupor. That is the weird part. You can always snap out of it, and say no, if you really want to. And there are good suggestions why you wouldn't want to...

PPS: Pretty much like Münchhausen, who pulled himself and his horse out of the mire by his own hair, but in a weird way 😁

I've went into most hypnosis stuff head first, wthout fear. I was never scared it would make me do things i don't like and so far it was pleasant and mystical. I did mainly Bimbofication/IQ-Reduction stuff, and yes i can drop pretty deep sometimes, forgetting everything from one moment to the other, blank stare, not a thought, while the entire body tingles etc. And yes sometimes this feeling is so strong that it just happens, even if i am doing other things at the moment. So yes, i would say it fully worked, however, It never happened in awkward moments, when i needed my brain it was always there. As soon as someone talks to me, i am no longer in trance. Even if i wanted to show them, it would not work, i could slowly unveil parts, but others most often don't understand at all what is going on...

With Max Harms files, there is one that tries to make you not understand what others are saying. I played along and it really happened, i made myself hear only garbage and let that wash over me. When my partner talked to me, and all i heard was gibberish that literally just washed over me, i got scared and that went away. It has not come back yet... idk how i did it, but i really focused on mishearing sounds. Drawing syllables where there were none, focusing fully on fricatives instead of vowels or something. Although i did not look through his script, i don't think he gave those explicit instructions, but rather my horny brain just wanted to be so dumb, to no longer understand others, and thus invented its own strategies to follow the suggestion.

Any seed needs a fertile substrate to grow in. And they are just that, seeds, tiny suggestions, that the willing subject can "make their own" and cultivate the plant growing from that seed. A subject could make themselves develop ideas without the hypnotist and then assume, that those were the effects of the hypnosis. Well yes, and no, but i do not like it when people say or assume hypnosis is more powerful than the mind of the subject. Like, yea i get the kink there, but why pretend? To fully fool those susceptible enough to fall for that lie, and keep the rest confused in a kinky fiction?

PS: Also, i know how those things work, i can feel my mind responding. The way IQ reduction works, is by inducing a stupor, the brief moment when you blank, teaching the subject to deepen that stupor, to let it happen more quickly, to set more and more triggers for it to happen more often, and to fully intertwine erotic bdsm fantasies into the mix, imagining sensations that then reverberate, to sweeten that stupor. That is the weird part. You can always snap out of it, and say no, if you really want to. And there are good suggestions why you wouldn't want to...

PPS: Pretty much like Münchhausen, who pulled himself and his horse out of the mire by his own hair, but in a weird way 😁

Which Max Harm file would that be?  😇

Which Max Harm file would that be?  😇

Too dumb to think
https://www.niteflirt.com/profile/Max%20...Id=4287451