.:Welcome to /hypnotizable!:.

I’m a post-graduate researcher studying for a PhD in experimental psychology focused on hypnosis and phenomenological control. I’m running a study to find out how hypnotisable people are (it will give you your score plus some information to understand how that compares with the general population). No hypnosis is used in the test! It uses the empirically equivalent capacity for phenomenological control instead.

Full text and link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hypnosis/s/VAU9NxlCWd

Hope it is helpful and interesting.

I'm not aware lingo and terminology, English not first language. But I think it will be understandable to most.

I am far from experienced in the subject.

I have a mental disorder that makes me unable to control the flow and intensity of my thoughts the majority of the time, it's like a background process that can run independently from any conversation or task, even having two or three courses of thought at the same time, although they do overlap frequently.

I usually think in the form of pictures or short sounds (not words, however I can if I really focus.)

I have developed an interest in therapeutic and recreational hypnosis and would really like to be able experience trance more consistently.

Here's my issue, I unwillingly analyse everything all the time, so relaxing my mind is something very foreign to me, even when it does happen it will not last long.

Often, when I try hypnosis, my brain feels like it has a block between my conscious and unconscious mind that is not letting me actually "let go" (and all that). A few times I've had a massive headache afterwards, which is not unusual for me when I try to direct my thoughts in specific categories and processes.

I have experienced trance, when all factors such as temperature, noise, lighting and altertedness/tiredness aligned.

Recently it crossed my mind that the method might just not be agreeing with me and I'd like some advice on this.

is it possible to hypnotize myself or have someone do it where i don’t overeat anymore i just feel hopeless

Hypnotic Basics: If you’re returning to my scripts, feel free to ignore the first 7 paragraphs, as it will not substantively change. It is just an initial check-list to make sure of safety before reading. For anybody who hasn’t done this before or has never read one of my scripts specifically, which, to you newbies: Welcome. And to all those returning: Welcome back.

Please follow these basic rules to ensure your safety, privacy, and consent.

1, Ensure that you are in an area where you would reasonably be able to say “I was taking a nap” if you are interrupted for any reason. This means that you a) have a minimum of 20 minutes, b) are able to sit or lay comfortably, and c) have no other distractions or pressing commitments.

2, Please get yourself a glass of water before reading further, as there will be a suggestion to drink water immediately after waking up when the session is ending.

3,  Take a moment now to double check the title of the posting and that it is something that you want to focus on for a trance/hypnotic session. Whatever is in the title is going to be what is in the script, so you have had 2 chances now to confirm your certainty and consent that you wish to continue.

Thank you for taking the time to read if this was your first time, or if you just felt the need to reconfirm that there is nothing substantially different in the paragraph. Which, there isn’t, exactly as I said, because I am literally going to copy and paste this to every script that I write from now on.

Anyway. That’s the basics and if you are now ready to continue, remembering and recognizing that this is your third and final warning, feel free to dive right in. Reading beyond this point is considered giving your full and knowing consent., please remember to leave feedback, feel free to ask for requests, tips are welcome, and that’s enough of all of that. Without further ado, let’s begin…

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Having now talked to a number of folk about what they may need most or would like to wish for, I have written this script for the purposes of improving quality of sleep so that your rest can be more restful and restorative. It will also be tied to trying to fight nightmares, getting back to sleep more easily when interrupted, and having the mind wind down at night so that sleep comes more easily. Obviously, results can’t be guaranteed, and there will be some further suggestions that may help at the end, but for now, feel free to read on and see if this script can help you sleep a little better tonight.

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So, sleeping. Trancing is not totally dissimilar, maybe you already know that or maybe this is your first try at getting hypnotized, either way, just understanding that they are different but not so different is enough for now, as you keep reading, and breathing, and start to focus on following my words, looking for that feeling that is not quite sleeping, but is something sort of close to it.

Now, of course, you might have come to this script with the problem of insomnia, its late at night, you’re needing a distraction, you’re wanting to get rest and just can’t seem to figure out how to get your brain to slow down enough to make it work, and that is definitely a serious problem and a real issue that a lot of folks have to deal with at one time or another. Let’s see if we can’t find a way to hack the system and rewrite a bit of brain code here or there for you to try to get around whatever the hooks and hangups are that were roadblocking you from getting the rest you rightfully deserve…

Because that’s the thing. That’s the whole deal, right there, the biggest part of the whole point of this posting: You deserve to get to rest. You deserve to get to take a break. You deserve to take it easy for a while, and turn your mind to things that are pleasant and make you happy and feel joy.

You can take a moment now to think about a few of your own favorite things, with or without singing about raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, just taking a deep breath, filling your lungs with fresh air and your mind with fresh thoughts of the things that bring you comfort and make you feel cozy.

Now, as you keep reading and you keep focusing, you will keep relaxing and let yourself lose the distractions of your busy day, because you know that no matter how much you try to get done in one day, there will be other things to do tomorrow, and to get them done, you’ll need to have gotten some rest and the best of the best when it comes to proper rest is a good night’s sleep.

I know you already know that, you know that you already know that, and I know that you know that I know we both know that, which is why you probably decided to read this, and is the same reason I decided to write this, so since we’re on the same page and you’re probably more than ready to keep reading and start the actual trancing already, iet’s just go ahead and give you a quick count for the sake of the formalities so you can get fully and completely into TRANCE.

On the count of 10, you will be completely and totally in TRANCE.

0, 1, 2, 3, following after me.

4, 5, 6, focusing and reading.

7, 8, feeling more happy as you let your mind empty.

9, Finding that you are already in a TRANCE and might have been for a while, and just going deeper now as you wait for that last number.

Keep your mind on my words, keep your eyes reading, keep your fingers scrolling, whatever you need to do to just focus on that feeling that is not quite fully sleep, but is similar to it in a sort of sideways sense, and that makes sense because I told you from the start that this was written to help you work on getting better SLEEP.

10, SLEEP. SLEEP. SLEEP. Sinking down even more deep into that comfortable similar feeling that you were looking for when you started reading, so that soon you can find that other feeling that is next to it and get better rest, hopefully for the rest of your life.

Now, in order to give you better sleep, let’s find you a perfect place to rest. A bedroom in your brain, with the perfect bed, and a lovely little nightstand, and all the warmest, comfiest covers.

In your mind, there are many doors. There are doors that lead to memories, and doors that lead to dreams, and doors that lead to future plans and wants and goals. Surely, behind one of these doors there must be that bedroom with the perfect bed that you just imagined. One of these doors leads to that bedroom. On the count of 3, you will find yourself standing in front of it. Make sure to make a note of it in your mind, and remember what it looks like, so you can find your way back on your own next time, and it will be easy to come back whenever you want.

Whenever you need some sleep, you can find your way back here with the phrase "SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ". Whenever you say SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ or are told that trigger by someone you have decided to share it with and trust to help you when you need more SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ, you will find yourself at the door to the bedroom, ready to get some absolutely splendid rest. Deep and peaceful, powerful slumber.

1, searching for the proper door, 2, feeling like you are getting closer to it more and more, finding your way to the perfect bedroom and the perfect rest that you can get in that perfect bed, and 3. SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ.

When you lay in that bed, you will feel as if 5 minutes becomes several hours. A full night's sleep in this wonderful bed will feel like catching up on a week's worth of proper rest. Sleeping in this bed regularly should help your sleep patterns and routine, and will always make you feel so spectacularly refreshed.

SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ. 

You can find the bedroom now, and it will always be there where you can find it again. It is the perfect temperature, the perfect number of blankets, the perfect softness to firmness of the mattress, just for you. The perfect bed, and as such you can get the perfect sleep. So, whenever you need some extra rest, even just a quick nap, you can come back here, and get some

SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ.

Now, of course, sometimes there will be interruptions in the night, be that needing the bathroom, or some noise happening, or just getting up for a drink of water, or of course the worst case: nightmares. For most of them the answer is the same and is very simple, you can simply use the same SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ trigger, to take your brain back to the same blissful bedroom in your imagination, and head back to bed after you have dealt with whatever it was that needed doing.

As to the nightmares though, well, whatever they may be, whenever they may come up, and however real it seems to feel, I would like you to try these 3 things to try to re-ground yourself in the actual reality you are used to living in that was briefly interrupted by whatever that was.

1, take 10 intentional breaths, with slowing down, breathing deeper, focusing on your physical body and current place, and assessing that you are still safe.

2, while you do, since that will take about a minute, you may want to go ahead and get some water, or use the bathroom, anything that involves physically getting out of bed for just a little bit, so that your body is able to reset as well as your brain.

3, then you can return to bed, reuse the trigger, and try to get back to some proper SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ.

Of course, there should be no nightmares when you sleep in this perfect bed from your imagination, but some other stuff sometimes comes from the imagination and the subconscious as well, so let’s take a moment now to find another door, nearby,  somewhere that those things come out of, and we’re going to see if we can’t help keep it from opening without your blessing.

Picture a plank, a simple piece of wood, could be used to make a table or a shelf or a different door, but for this moment we’ll use it to block the door that the nastier things have been using to bother you and interrupt getting proper rest. See that there are already braces where it can be fitted to serve as a sturdy lock and barricade your mind so that when it is time to rest you can choose to make it more uninterrupted.

Picture a key. It can be as intricate and complicated or as simple and small as you like, any key will work, because every door in your mind has the ability to be locked by your mind’s master key. Feel yourself put the key to the lock and bolt it, so that the nightmare door does not open again for this night.

Picture that scene in so many movies where a security system comes online: turrets spinning up, red laser sights, the sound of weapons preparing to turn some intruder into a fine powder. Feel it in your mind as that security system is installed and everything is locked and loaded to keep that door from letting out anything that is at all a danger to you while you get your well-deserved rest.

There may be things that knock on that door or try to slip underneath it, and troubles may still interrupt your rest now and again, unfortunately, but from now on, when you think to yourself “SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ” your mind should also subconsciously know that the key has been put in the bedside table, the door has been locked and barred, and the way to the bedroom is protected.

Just as your own mind can sometimes make the nightmares that make sleeping more difficult, or get caught up with one distraction or another with the busy brain buzzing all about, it can also be what provides you the perfect answers to those troubles, if it just has the right framework to be able to put the puzzle together, you’ll feel the pieces start to fall into place and should be more and more able to get better and better SLEEP.

Breathing deeply, relaxing completely, feeling so ready to get more, better, easier, proper SLEEP.

Remembering all the tools you have been given now, focusing on preparing to change from this similar feeling of TRANCE to shift over to just getting good sleep.

On the count of 5, your TRANCE will end, and you will feel ready to use the trigger on your own when you are ready to get some SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ.

1, Relaxing, and resting, but knowing that real sleep will help you feel even better soon.

2, Focusing on how much you are looking forward to getting a good night’s SLEEP.

3, Remembering the way back to that lovely, perfect bedroom in your brain, and how wonderful it is to enjoy your SLEEPYTIME, ZZZ, and getting so cozy.

4, Feeling so fabulous as you return to your usual, normal waking self, but not too awake, so you can get back to getting proper sleep presently.

And 5, AWAKE at your own pace, and with no need to hurry, just back to normal, if maybe a little sleepy.

A glass of water may be a good idea, and other than that, I’ll keep the ending short, so you can get back to that bedroom and some more well-earned rest.

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I have had a few times in my life when I was able to turn a nightmare into a lucid dream instead, and if I knew enough about how to try to suggest that to the general public, I would have included that in the script, but sadly I do not. I do recommend that if you have read this, you may want to research that, as it might help you with those night-time troubles, in some form or fashion.

Other than that, less screentime before bed, having some kind of sleepmask, and maybe you could install an app on your phone to be a blue-light filter/turn on nightmode on everything.

That is all of the stuff that I have used to improve my sleeping habits. I also tend to turn on youtube for one of those 10-hours of various genres of music type of videos, so I can see how much sleep I got when I wake up, or audiobooks are also always a good option for me as well.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed a lovely trance, and if you have any other suggestions or techniques that might help others who would read this type of script, I hope you’ll share them in the comments. ‘Til next time, Sleep well, and I hope it is better because of the bedroom in your brain.

Okay, so recently I got an interesting result that I think might be connected to hypnosis, although I didn't use any files and just sort of talked to myself a bit.

I was laying down in bed and just encouraged myself to relax every part of my body, mind, and any other part of myself no matter what I could feel. I just shut my eyes, and focused on my breathing and heartbeat.

Eventually, my mind started wandering. I remember visualizing myself walking somewhere. The details are kind of foggy about exactly what happened, but eventually I accidentally kicked something or tripped on the curb in my imagination, and my foot jerked in response as if I had actually tripped.

I've read that hypnic jerks like this can be indicators of trance. I also doubt that I fell asleep, as I do remember being at least somewhat aware the whole time, and I had only really focused like this for a few minutes, so even if I did I doubt I made it to REM sleep, at least from my knowledge.

Does this sound like trance to anyone? Anyone have a similar experience?

TL:DR I had no problem responding to a suggestion that my body can’t move, but I had trouble truly feeling like I was responding to a trigger word suggestion. Advice?

So me and my friend recently have been experimenting with hypnotizing each other. While we have been reading up on it, and I’ve been interested in it since high school, we are very new to actually hypnotizing others/being hypnotized ourselves. Before, my friend was able to get me into a nice, fairly deep trance, and was able to suggest to me that I couldn’t pull my legs or arms apart from my body. That they were stuck, glued together. This worked out great! I wanted it to happen, and while I was in that state I really felt like I couldn’t pull them apart. It was like that part of my brain shut off.

However, more recently, we wanted to try giving me a trigger word that if spoken, would send me deep into trance again. Even if I had woken up a bit. Something that would instantly trigger my head to sink, and for me to sink deeply into trance. We tried it, doing the same technique that worked before. We did an eye fixation induction, an arm limpness demonstration, and orders to open and close my eyes until I couldn’t anymore. However, when my friend gave me the suggestion, and then said the trigger word while I was more awake, it felt more like I was forcing it? The limbs being stuck together really felt like I had not choice, but this just…didn’t have that feeling. I didn’t feel like it was working much, or that I was forcing it to work. I wanted it to be an automatic response in my body. Something I couldn’t control. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we might be able to get me to this point? I really want it to work, but I’m not sure how to bridge the gap between one suggestion being very effective, and this one seemingly not. Thanks in advance!

My feelings on this topic are conflicted, I guess.

I've never experienced an intentional trance before (at least not to my knowledge. Never been to a real hypnotist of any kind) and I'm kinda interested in the feeling of trance and what it could help me visualize / experience, but am also nervous about giving up control / being manipulated or having perceptions altered or whatever and kinda find myself... Going... against what I've looked at? I don't know, it's kinda weird and hard to describe and I'll use an example here:

I read this really cool text trance post: https://www.reddit.com/r/hypnosis/comments/d606q5/a_text_trance_an_ode_to_an_undervalued/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And kinda found myself doing the opposite of what it says? For instance when it says "You wouldn't really think about x at that time" and I start thinking about it. Like, I read it, I tried to "internalize" it, and... I kinda just felt nothing. Not entirely nothing, but... I'm really not sure how to describe it. Like, I kinda felt relaxed. Not nessisarily any more relaxed than if I just laid in bed with no text and just thought about relaxing.

A similar story happens with most other similar things I've tried in the past, and... I don't fully know what I'm doing wrong. Is it my nerves or my wariness about the whole thing? Am I not focusing enough? Am I starting to get it then falling out, or did I actually experience it and it's just less of an effect than I think it's meant to be?

Not nessisarily looking for an actual hypnotist, this is more of a passing interest in self-hypnosis.

Can anyone else relate to these feelings of wariness or pass on some advice? Also uh I have ADHD. I think I read something on r/hypnosis that says it doesn't impact this but just in case it does there's that

In any case, thx for reading and have a good day

Hypnosis is super cool to me, and I want to try it, but it doesn't work on me. Occasionally it'll partially work on me, but not to the point it's supposed to, and more often than not i end up on the edge of a panic attack when i try.

I can't sit still and focus on what's being said, there's always a million other stimuli whether it be the way my eyes move, my breathing, things i see (closing my eyes doesn't help), or thinking up something scary, which will inevitably happen, and just so many things that it is impossible to focus on their voice. Additionally, i can't visualize things in my head nearly at all, which makes suggestions based on that rather ineffective. I go in with hope, but every time it just ends up not working.

I'm just lost. I want to try hypnosis but i can't be hypnotized. What can I even do?

Openly admitting this is a copypaste of a post I made in r/hypnosis, curious about the local 'tist thoughts as well as possible insight/suggestion (heh) as to the paragraph labelled "Firstly"

I don't exactly know if I'm hypnotizable or not, but that isn't the point of the post, I'm just publically rambling I suppose about what I've noticed in my rough year of dabbling and listening to hypnosis audio files from various creators.

Firstly, I don't know how relevant it may or may not be, but I'm autistic, and I would personally assume that this would indicate I'd be better for hypnosis, as I do my best anything when being given directions. However, I find myself having difficulty with the part a few 'tists have mentioned being the "Fake it till you Make it" phase. I want to be hypnotized, it seems like a really fascinating experience, and my interest is multifold, academic, recreational, and a little erotic, yet I can't seem to hit "trance" and I feel I'm lucky if I get an ASMR response.

In retrospect that paragraph may be better for a different subreddit as indicated by the readme post, alas I shall continue and I will repost this there too to maximize collective input, I value myriad opinion and suggestion (heh).

Secondly, I notice that there is a stage in every longform audio where I'm paying total attention, theres no distractions, and I'm relaxed and in the zone. Next thing I know, I... for lack of a better word, "wake up" an indeterminate amount of time later, with the audio having either looped, ended, or at least 30 minutes time has past. Could I have fallen asleep, sure, its a possibility, but I commonly suffer insomnia for a handful of reasons. And to further muddle the waters, half of them it occurs with eyes wide open, I just enter a state of oblivion, and time slips away from me. I have considered the possibility that these are disassociation events brought on by the stress and anxiety of existing with the comorbidities involved with autism, but normally those consist of a very deep state of "zoned out", but when I come to from these Oblivion States as I've grown to call them, at least 40% (rough estimate) of my entire skin surface is buzzing like tv static, and it only stops when I apply pressure, returning when I release pressure. The sensation is markedly different from a loss of circulation "pins and needles" as the tv static is oddly pleasant, especially when pressure is applied to it, going from Great, to Blissful.

I dont exactly know whats happening, and I'd be very interested on hearing any theories, as I cannot make any heads or tails of what the Oblivion State could be. The shortest I've noted was roughly 12-15 minutes, rendering about 35% of my skin static, the longest consumed, at my best guess, six hours, and applying the strange sensory static to an entire hemisphere of my body, and the entirety of my head.

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to get hypnotized for a while now through youtube videos. My initial goal was to experience stuff like seeing or feeling things that aren't really there based on suggestions and what I'm told to see. I've heard that these are quite advanced, so I've shifted to trying to make any hypnotic suggestion work to start with, but I'm still struggling.

A bit more about my situation:

1. I practice in a quiet, comfortable environment, only when I'm alone.
2. So far the most I was able to do is get into what I think is a trance, but I haven't been successful in experiencing the effects of any suggestions. I'm not even sure if my trance is deep enough for suggestions to work.
3. I'm open to the idea of hypnosis and really want it to work, but I've heard that having an analytical mind can interfere with the process. I often find myself analyzing the hypnotist's words and questioning what I 'should' be feeling or what 'should' be going on.

I would like to know:

• Is there anything I could do about the analystic thoughts besides just practice?
• Techniques or practices to deepen my trance and increase receptivity to suggestions in general.
• Fundamental aspects I might be missing.
• Places to find good hypnosis files, maybe even ones especially for beginners.

I know that practice is one of, if not the way to improve, but after repeated attempts with almost nothing working past the semi-trance part, I'm starting to feel demotivated. This is why I'm reaching out for help.

Thank you!

Curious if those that struggle to go under also find it difficult to visualize in their mind, or don't have an internal monologue.

It seems like all the topics here and in /hypnosis are about people who already know what are they doing, is there some places where a newbies could go to see what's going on?
Internet seems to have millions of answers, and non of them match each other...

I've managed to have a grand total of one trance, and when I actually started to feel warmth flowing up my arms I instantly got so excited I snapped myself out of the trance. Now, any time I think I might be even remotely close to entering a trance, I get too excited and snap myself out of any relaxation I may be feeling.

What can I do to help stay under when I feel like I'm floating off? It's been incredibly frustrating.

Hi I have always wanted to be hypnotized (in more of a fetish kind of way) and I have listened to a large amount of hypnosis files but I have never been able to go under.

I have often wondered if it is due to suffering from Tinnitus in both ears which I struggle to cope with especially when it is very noisy or very quiet.

Do you think it is possible for me to be hypnotized? if so would anyone care to try and help me out

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Many Thanks for reading

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Sindii

I've run across the following verbiage, which I understand is commonly used in Elman inductions (I've encountered it numerous times):

"When you know your eyes are just too relaxed to work, give them a test and try to open them."

Or at least, something along those lines. The question is, what do you (as the subject) do if you aren't at a point where you "know" this? Do you try to open them anyway? Implied in that instruction is you wouldn't try unless you did "know" this. And if you didn't try, wouldn't the hypnotist assume that the condition had been met?

This completely confuses me. What do you do, if you're not convinced your eyes are that relaxed?

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I've tried everything to try and fall into a deep trance, i'm very passionate about hypnosis and i want to use it on myself by planting a trigger to fall in trance quickly to skip the induction, but i can't seem to get hypnotized, i've tried everything i could've tried by myself, a PGO Spike, butterly induction, concentrating on an object and yada yada. What can i do?

Let me explain, I like to listen to files in my downtime sometimes, files like "Turn Into A pokemon" and "Everyone Has A Tail" (I have a tf kink, sue me) And I am able to feel most the things WHILE I am in trance and sometimes I still feel it out of trance, but I see nothing about what I turned into and that makes the feelings go away. And I have tried stuff like triggers but that'd worse because I might not feel anything happen under trance and the trigger might not work. I have tried multiple people with multiple files but it always ends in the same way, can't see it, feelings go away. So I ask, is there any ways to feel the full effects of hypnosis, like can I train for this or am I fucked? If it helps I am 15 M.

Allow me to explain, I like to try and do some entertainment styles files every once in a while, files like "Float On A Cloud" and "Everyone Has A Tail" (I have a tf kink, sue me). I am able to feel the processes I am told about while under trance but then I get out of trance and don't see the thing that is added or the thing doesn't change, and if I try to look, 9 times outta 10 the feeling goes away as well. I am fairly certain it's not a fluke because I still FEEL the thing happen (sometimes I don't though if that helps) but no Matter what I try I can't see it, and you can completely toss away triggers because they don't even work most the time. I've tried obsessing over the details and going with the flow and leaving it to my subconscious and even tried to sleep through one. But it doesn't work, I've tried with multiple files of multiple people excluding NSFW ones but still nothing! I tried like almost my whole playlist of files today and yesterday, what did I get? A small tail that I can't even see because it doesn't exist! Also if it helps I am a 15 M.

Hi all id love to try hypnosis on VC. Does anyone know a good place to look for this?

This is a serious question. For someone who has literally struggled for years with hypnosis, at what point do you finally accept that more practice just isn't the answer? When:

1. Practice has made no difference

2. Different induction methods haven't helped

3. Addressing misconceptions hasn't helped

4. Research (classes, tutorials, books, mentoring) hasn't helped

5. Changes in media used (live, files, online, text) hasn't helped

6. Modifying expectations hasn't helped

When every experience completely flies in the face of the maxim "everyone can be hypnotized", what do you finally do? At what point do you realize that in spite of every bit of advice, every single thing you've tried, It. Just. Ain't. Happening.? I don't want to be a quitter, but I've been trying to solve this problem since before some of the hypnotists in these communities were even born.

Have I just been fooling myself all this time? Is it time to just plain hang it up and know some peace? I honestly want to know. If there can be no resolution to this, I'd like to know, so I can redirect what time I have left to me into other pursuits.

Thank you.

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I wanted to see if I could get hypnosis, specifically regarding anxiety.

Just finished watching a video done by Anthony Galie, in which he dropped about a dozen people with lightning speed. As he did his thing, he explained what was happening. He said that he chose what he called "good visualizers" for his subjects. How he selected his subjects was the helium-balloon-tied-to-the-wrist bit. Apparently, his yardstick for good visualization skills was how high and/or how readily their arms lifted when he gave the suggestions. I suppose the assumption here was that if there was no or limited response, the subject was not a "good visualizer".

Is this necessarily a cause and effect relationship? I've found that I can visualize very readily, and yet when suggestions are given, nothing seems to happen. It wasn't because I couldn't visualize, because I've already proved to myself that I can.

So, what gives here? It would seem to me that visualization is only one piece of the puzzle.

Can someone help hypnotize me, I’ve done everything but still nothing.

For a long time I've been avoiding hypnosis, as I felt scared of losing control. Whenever a spiral appeared on a screen I'd look away. (I knew that the spiral doesn't actually hypnotise you, you and the hypnotist do but the association I made still scared me)

Lately I got interested in hypnosis more and more, and I started watching some videos that aim to hypnotise the person watching. I followed the steps, and, while I did feel very relaxed, nothing special happened. I tried looking up a video that would make me forget my name, and again, I felt relaxed but I still remembered my name effortlessly.

The hypnotist in the video suggested a ball of energy was flowing through my body, to relax it. I struggled to feel a ball of energy which at times made me feel like I was doing something wrong, but I was just following the steps the hypnotist gave to me as well as I could.

I don't know how I could find a hypnotist that could actually do a session with me personally (Edit: and I generally take a long time to start trusting someone) so I'd rather stick to videos, even though I've already seen people recommending personal sessions.

Is there some way to get hypnotised and get the intended effect from it easier? If so, how? If not, why not? What can I do to get better experiences?

I need help about my experience with hypnosis, if it is normal or what is happening to me. I have had two experiences with hypnosis, the first with a hypnotherapist, the first sessions I ended up very stressed, all the time forcing my mind to follow the instructions and not stray. I ended up exhausted and without knowing if I had been hypnotized, in the second session I even began to dream, things that were not related to the meditation that I was doing and I tried to get out of there and connect. the last session the meditation was different, she used a technique of squeezing and releasing muscles in that session I don't know if I got hypnotized but I ended up more relaxed. Throughout the time I was in this therapy I was very anxious, I had to start taking pills to reduce anxiety, which I had never done but I attributed it to my workplace and my new boss who was a psychopath. The second time was a few days ago, it was a group session to quit smoking, I already knew 3 people who had done it with the same person and it had worked for them, so I went, but when we finished I was very anxious, the hypnotherapist asks if anyone wants to smoke or thinks they are going to smoke and I am the only one who raises my hand, he makes me go to the front and do something else imagining my brain, I relax a little but not for long, I arrive at my house and I was speed-up and anxious, I thought about smoking every 10 seconds, and the image came to mind, I had never thought so much about smoking!!! In general I don't think about it, I only smoke when I feel like it but here I had images of smoking all the time, I fell asleep early because I didn't trust myself and the next day when I woke up the first thing I thought about was smoking, I had never woken up thinking in smoking, I tried not to smoke but I couldn't hold it, when I smoked, which was half a cigarette, I was able to calm down and the anxiety and constant images ended. I have no idea why I didn't respond to hypnosis and why it made me feel so bad and gives me so much anxiety, the worst thing is that later I get depressed, because I wasn't able to quit smoking, I wasn't able to be hypnotized, etc. another fact is that I have adhd

I noticed people saying that they wish to be easier to hypnotize, but for me, there are times when I wish to be more easily hypnotized, and other times where I wish it was practically impossible, especially after seeing how induction methods work. This mood/feeling changes, especially because I have autism, ADHD symptoms, anxiety, OCD, and pathological demand avoidance, which is the most important factor in this case. I want to be able to change my hypnotizabilty and suggesstibility to be whatever I am comfortable with st the moment instead of being stuck permanently on one end of the spectrum. Is there a way to change this to whatever degree of suggestibility and hypnotizability I want at will? If so, how? Will my pathological demand avoidance affect how hypnotizable I am? If so, how?