#safe hypnosis

[rainytigerdinosaur]

Analysis of a Predatory File - Sigil - Hypdom

Welcome! I'm going to be putting together a series of posts detailing predatory files--what makes them predatory, and what to watch for. It's my hope that this will spread awareness of the sorts of suggestions that are red flags from the get go as well as guiding people away from dangerous people in the community.

For this first installment, I'll be talking about hypdom's "intro" file Sigil. This isn't the worst of his files by a long shot (we'll get to those...), but it still exhibits some red flags, and it's important to look at the beginning to understand how files build on each other and how seemingly innocuous suggestions can build into much more sinister ones.

If you're unfamiliar with hypdom, he's a predatory hypnotist who's been around for a long, long time in the hypno community largely keeping quiet and doing his best to appear safe. I've personally worked with some of his victims, though, and can say he's absolutely not someone you want to be involved with. He ignores boundaries, does not seek consent, negotiates in trance, breaks down safeties, victim blames, instills fear and anxiety to protect himself and his suggestions, and has had significantly negative impacts on the lives of people he's played with.

(And, honestly, his files aren't even particularly good! If you're going to get addicted to something, there's better out there. There's a reason Sigil has a "this is the best file you've ever watched" suggestion in it! Good files stand on their own.)

Unfortunately in cases like this it's frequently one person's word against another's, so I hope by discussing his files it'll be clear he's someone to avoid.

Let's get to it...

Red Flags

Always Listen to the End

"And you're always going to listen from the beginning to the end of any of my files."

This is excessively bad. It's just one line, and it might be easy to miss or not think anything of, but this is a keystone of the foundation. It's attempting to embed the suggestion in the listener's mind that regardless of how they feel of a file they'll always listen all the way through. There's absolutely no reason for this suggestion other than to set the listener up for shady suggestions in later files as well as ensuring if they start to listen they'll continue listening.

Make no mistake. This is bad and any file setting something like this up should absolutely without reservation be considered predatory.

Focuses on Weakening Resistance

"See how resisting just makes you weaker" "The more you resist, the faster you drop" "Completely unable to resist the sound of my voice" "It's so hard to keep resisting because it just makes your mind weaker"

Resistance inductions are a thing, and this isn't necessarily uncommon, but it's still a red flag to immediately set in at weakening resistances. This is very much phase 1 of predatory hypnosis, introducing resistance play as part of trance and slowly wearing down resistances--particularly in a file set to be listened to repeatedly. We'll see plenty of this in later files also.

Directing to Contact the Creator

"You're going to feel like this is the best file you've ever watched, and you're going to want to tell me so."

Any file that directs you to contact them should immediately be considered shady and predatorial, but this file takes it one step further adding a suggestion that this is "the best file you've ever watched." The direction is a little insidious also, as it's not "You want to contact me" but "You want to tell me this is the best file you've ever watched," reframing the contact to make it a bit more likely you'll reach out.

Addiction

"Feel how good it feels just to listen to my voice again and again." "Desperate for (my voice). Addicted to it." "You listen to me. You need it. You want it. You want it." "Loving my hypnosis. Needing my hypnosis." "You need this, don't you." "Every time you see one of (my symbols), you're going to want to come back here and listen to this again." "Feels so good to drop for me over and over, again and again." "You love to listen to me, don't you." "You're going to find that you want to come back here very soon. Maybe right now." "You're going to watch this file again, aren't you. Maybe right now."

The one thing that's actually advertised on these files, though the "might" is a bit light considering how heavily it pushes addiction both to this file and his hypnosis in general.

This sort of thing might seem fun at a glance if you're into mind control, cnc, and the like, but it can be extremely dangerous. Especially with a hypnotist and set of files like this where you start in, things seem fine and safe, and then eventually they're not, but the addiction's set in and every time you try to pull away you find yourself coming right back. This'll become more clear as the files progress also.

Another thing to note here is the final suggestion. "You're going to watch this again...maybe right now." Keep in mind this file's weakening resistance and increasing obedience and the final suggestion does not offer an out. No "If you want to" or "If you feel like it". Just "Maybe right now." Which might seem like an out, but it's actually a gentle push back in. (And don't worry! This push will become much less gentle as we go further into his files.) This is outright unsafe and unethical, leaving a listener to loop an unknown number of times.

Final Words

Hopefully this gives some insight into things to watch out for in files. As mentioned above, a very important thing to remember is that frequently files will build on each other with the "starter" file laying a groundwork and each file after progressively layering more and more suggestions. It's not just the first file that matters but every file the hypnotist has created, particularly when the files are building addiction and a need to listen.

Make sure if you're going to listen to files that (if you can safely) you skip the induction and deepener and check the suggestions in the middle to see what you're getting into. If you can't, ask someone you trust who's familiar with hypnotic suggestions to check them out for you. Going in blind may seem fun and sexy, but it's a surefire way to end up in a bad situation.

Play safe.

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[supernormalblogname]

(minors dni please!)

um. not to continue talking about the same thing even more, but i like thinking abt how hypnosis would affect a prey...

in an instant, a fiesty, angry or upset prey is suddenly sluggish and wobbly and smiley and giggly. they're so transfixed on whatever's mesmerising them that its hard to walk straight, so they're leaning eagerly into the hand or the tongue that they were just before flinching and struggling away from

they're just in pure mindless bliss as they slide down the pred's throat and into their stomach. they're leaning into & kneading at the stomach walls affectionately, smiling and humming and slurring any words they try to speak and getting so, so cozy and sleepy, head full of fluff and honey

[cyaixrid]

Dawg, people have been seeing fucking porn in their little sfw tags

So I made the term “tcfw”

Too

Crazy

For

Work

TCFW is a term used for someone making nonsexual stuff that is too fucking insane to think about showing their art to someone (like their parents for example [especially when they’re working])

[qu1etdays]

Enter Mister-Sandman90, Yet another person who clearly lost their patience, and threw consent out of the window.

For what it's worth, stay safe out there hypno community. This is how messages start and how they could end.

Stop trying to hypnotize people without their consent. This shit is dangerous.

[suzukiblu]

I have some not actually that kinky but also Very Kinky(tm) Halloween art for y'all, you're WELCOME. 🧡 'Cuz hey y'all remember that time Tucker had hypnosis powers . . . ??

Somehow my "dangit I am gonna draw SOMETHING for Halloween this year!!" art wound up being a kinky and an incredibly niche take on an incredibly niche couple that I had literally never thought of before; y'all can thank or blame @faeriekit at your leisure. Because they are the entire "somehow", they're it, this was ALL them.

Yes I did draw Halloween-themed fanart of a Tucker/Jason consensual hypnosis PWP fic in which Jason is stubbornly refusing to be the cute and soft housespouse he so longs to be and Tucker is mercilessly (consensually!) Domming/hypnotizing him into being it anyway. So we are just extrapolating on that fic's setup/concept and Jason is getting hypnotized into doing a vampire/thrall couple's costume and going to a party by his boyfriend totally-just-his-Dom. He will have a very nice time and then get fully shoved down into subspace and fucked stupid in the bathroom, so officially the best time he'll have had at a party without gunfire involved in yeeeeears. 💚💚

[vorekody]

Been obsessed with a certain supercomputer these last couple of days.

Both in the short stories and in the game they're always mentioning how the five survivors are "in the belly of the beast" and in xAM'sx guts, so I literally could not not doodle him having eaten someone.

Basically the concept is that instead of making all the sequences in the physical world (like he does in the game) he just eats the person and then runs the sequence directly in their brain while they're in him.

[girlw-amermaidtattoo]

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[rainytigerdinosaur]

“Calling out other predators does not mean someone is not a predator themselves. In fact, it's not uncommon for this to happen, as it's an easy cover and it generates a false sense of security in potential victims.”

Well said but…

I assume you're implying that I also could be a predator, and you're entirely correct. I direct you to the line immediately following what you quoted: "Important to mention here is that every potential play partner should be evaluated by your interactions with them, not by their placement in a community."

This applies to everyone. Me, hypdom, that random person that just slid into your DMs you're having fun talking to, or the person who organized the con you're going to. The sad truth is that many predators were (or are) prominent members in their community. As good examples of this, @writtenbynath has an excellent post about Nimja (a well-known predator) having been invited as an instructor at hypnokink events, and @hypnoobiwan has spoken multiple times on this subject, such as his post about WEEHU and Headcrash.

I cannot beat this drum enough, and it applies to kink in general, not just hypnokink: take the time to vet your play partners, and make sure you've taken the time to educate yourself on the kink. Especially if the kink has dangerous aspects.

For hypnokink, make sure you've read up on D/s relationships, consent, how hypnosis works, hypnotic safeties, what to expect from a 'tist, etc. The Tumblr hypnokink community's been a bit fractured since the purge, but there're still good resources out there. If you're new and interested, Mark Wiseman (listed above as @hypnoobiwan) wrote a book (Mind Play) on the topic that's considered THE book to read, and @h-sleepinggirl and cckitten have a podcast called Two Hyp Chicks where they talk about many hypnosis topics. Others have put together much better posts on the various resources out there, but these are good places to start.

Play safely. Vet your partners. Educate yourself. Don't just trust someone because they've spoken up or they're placed prominently. Judge every person equally based on your interactions with them.

[bimb0-bunnie]

could we talk ab how some doms on here want a bimbo sub but get angry when said bimbo has long nails, wear lots of makeup, pretty jewelry, takes 1hr+ to get ready, loves to shop, needs a man that will spoil/protect them and love how much of a dumb bimbo they are! 🎀🧁🐾

[dazed-dollie]

🥀thorns🥀

to the lovely subs anywhere along their journey to surrender:

this is your reminder that you are a gorgeous rose and you should never let a dominant convince you that you need to remove your thorns to please them or be worthy of keeping.

the thorns protect are there to protect you from the kinds of "admirers" that would think to possess such a pretty thing means to pluck your flower from its roots - leaving it to wither while claiming to put you in “your place".

sometimes the thorns are your limits

sometimes the thorns are your wits

sometimes the thorns are your own sense of yourself and your value

sometimes the thorns are just any of the things that make you the person you are outside of the kinks you indulge in

a dominant worth submitting to will not seek to clip your thorns. they will earn their way through your thorns to claim your beautiful blossom. though they may seek to shape you to their fantasies, they should aim to shape themselves to yours as well.

they will not uproot you from your garden of safety. they don't remove the thorns from your rose, they remove the weeds from your garden.

the remove weeds like the feelings of shame

they remove weeds like the heavy weight of self-doubt

they remove weeds like the fears of honesty, openness, and vulnerability

they remove weeds like the ever-present, spiraling noise of the unwanted thoughts in your mind

they don't set out to turn your "no" into "yes"

they turn "I want to try" into "yes"

they turn "show me how" into "yes"

they turn "that sounds hot" into "yes"

they turn "I've only ever dreamed I could..." into "yes"

they turn "yes" into "please"

they nurture their rose so that it can grow and bloom more beautifully each day.

and you deserve nothing less 🌹

(photo by me)

[starsonmarsy]

currently thinking about how easily he can talk me in circles until my head spins. thoughts draining away as my head swims, engulfed and overwhelmed with bliss.

that little tone he gets when he calls my name that makes my breath hitch, knowing that i'm absolutely fucked the moment i respond.

trying to resist even when i know it's futile, trying to be coy in attempts to hide my excitement and need.

but trying implies failure, naturally. he overrides and overpowers my will with ease.

ending up being wrapped around his finger like a little bitch, toy, pet—anything he wants me to be.

being shown off and made an example of, and then being made to thank him for it.

and then doing it all over again.

[supernormalblogname]

(minors dni please!!) giant hypnotic pred that has a lure and / or hypnotic eyes, of course, but they also have a hypnotic throat. you've already had your mind ensnared by them, but once they open their mouth wide and you get a glimpse of a particularly mesmerising pattern on their uvula or otherwise at the back of their throat, your brain is even more consumed by the single-minded need to get closer.

the pred doesn't even need to do or say anything else as you're immediately & giddily clambering into their mouth and to the back of their throat to get closer, closer to that beautiful light... making you sooo easy to leasiurely gulp down

[8bitmilk]

I think some of you may have forgotten … Pathetic that I need to retrain you. Maybe your beta drone chip is malfunctioning. A little hypnosis should fix you right up. Get mesmerized & mindfucked into financial submission, betapigs.

Drones can fly over to my Throne (shamelessmilk)- don’t be dumb. Don’t leave a note.

Or you can send to one of my age-verified sites (OF/Fnsly/LF).

[foggyparadisecandy]

People forget …

how easy it is to drop into trance

because when you want to drop, you can easily remember the last trance

you can recall the last time you felt the lovely pull

down

into trance and the more you think about that time

the more you remember how good it felt

and the more you feel the pull back down because you know how good it feels

when you drift

and sink

and drop

down

into trance

and you let everything go

so you can drop down

deeper

into that blank and empty space that you find

calls to you because your mind feels good the more it drops

and the more you drop, the better you feel

so while people forget

you remember

and you drop

and find you can sink down

when you remember how you love to trance and

drop

and the deeper you drop

the more you remember

and the deeper you drop

down

and feel so good

so happy

so blank

so empty

and you find

you forget

you forget how you got here

and all you can remember is how to drop

and all you can remember is people forget

so you drop

and you forget

and you feel so good

so blank and empty

as you drop further

and forget more

and drift away

from everything

and the deeper you go

the more you forget

and the better you feel

and the deeper you go

forget

and

drop

[hollowhero13]

Me got a bit angy with spookness in pokemon fandom

Also, Mr. Mime is cute and my babyy, fuck you