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so!! now that we're about a week into you all deciding that my aimless rambles about hypno things i like are worth a follow, i figure it's probably about time for a belated introduction, and also a pinned post!

i'm Mezzmer, and you can call me Mezz! i'm sure you've caught the general drift by now: i'm an extremely hypnokinky nineteen-year-old boy with a passion for long-winded infodumping about things that interest me, and this blog is my new and shiny place to do that about something that interests me a lot- the infinite art form of hypnosis!

we have to do all the things a pinned post does, so let's get that out of the way! all that below the cut :3

is just a series of choices, really

we like to elevate it to something very core, very immutable, as if the choices we make surrounding it are merely an expression of the colour of our soul. an endpoint, right? a reflection of who we are, not who we are in itself and maybe that's true! i'm not gonna knock that viewpoint, of course. i see its merits. but indulge me for a moment, and think about it like this

the name "Mezz" is a choice that i make every time i say it. when someone asks me what my name is, i have a choice: i can tell them it's Mezz, or i can tell them it's Max, or Percy, or Riley, or any other name that i want. to them, that'll be my name. that will be my identity. maybe the colour of my soul is different, maybe my "real" name is inexpressible, but between them and myself, my name is a choice that i make.

here on world famous and extremely active hypnosis fetish blog mezz-merizing, we talk a lot about choices, and especially about how our choices can be subverted, and how other people can make choices for us. that's what suggestion is! you make a choice for somebody else, and they accept it. it's not their choice, but yours; their will is subsumed by yours, even if only for a single moment

so then it stands to reason that your identity is a thing that can be controlled as well, right? those very base instincts, those ideas of who and what you are, well- they're choices you make. they're choices that someone with the right finesse to gain your trust, to guide you down into that deep, familiar state of hypnosis can make for you

i think there's something intensely intimate about that, don't you? to give somebody my name, my personality, my voice and my opinions. to a hypnotist, all of these things are mutable. to anyone else, they are things that i control- when somebody asks me for my name, i'm in control of the answer. they'll trust me when i give it to them, and they'll call me that. to a hypnotist, the dynamic is entirely different.

sometimes i get caught up thinking about the power of a skilled hypnotist...

i mean, think about it. we're talking about the sort of person who can control minds. yeah, yeah, i know we can get into a whole argument about how hypnosis isn't really mind control, but this isn't that kinda post, go find someone less horny for that discussion!! for the purposes of this post, a skilled, powerful hypnotist can exert dominion over a subject's psyche. they can control them. reprogram them, alter their perception, their desires, their personality, everything. that's an almost unimaginable level of power, isn't it? magical.

like, take a step back from how we've all gotten used to the practice and think about rapid inductions. think about the fact that a hypnotist can walk up to someone, talk to them for a moment, then place them deep under hypnosis in a matter of seconds. their mind just drops out of their grasp and into the power of their hypnotist. hhhff. even over text- i've mentioned before how i fantasize about someone showing up in my dms or something and simply exercising their power. i can be controlled, so they control me. my grip on my mind is loose and pliable, so they grip it for me. i'm taken, in a way that's immediate, in a way that's absolute... and, really, if i would give up control like that, if it can be taken, don't you think it should be taken? doesn't a powerful hypnotist deserve anything they can take

i'm not sure what you'd call this attachment i've got. a belief in hypnotist supremacy? i guess that's apt, actually! because they are superior. anyone who holds that sort of power is superior. anyone who can control my mind is owed my submission. i don't want to negotiate. i don't want to be asked. i want to be brainwashed, you understand, and that doesn't come with asking nicely if i'm okay with being brainwashed first. <3

a subject's place is under the control of a hypnotist. a hypnotist's place is in control of a subject. have i been brainwashed to believe that, too? does it really matter? i don't think it does! my beliefs are better off shaped by those who can control them. if a powerful hypnotist wants me to believe something, that's what i should believe. that's what i will believe, because they control my mind.

...so this is your sign, if you needed it. if you're a subject, you should submit to hypnotists. you should worship hypnotists. you should offer them the power over your mind they deserve. and if you're a hypnotist, you should claim that power. you should control. you should influence. you should be worshipped. you're owed it. you should take it.

we in the hypno space are fascinated with the moment of the drop! the snap - sleep, the closing of the eyes, body folds over limp, that sort of thing. there are reasons for this both obvious and not! the obvious reason is that it's the most dramatic and visible indicator of a hypnotic trance, right? there's nothing that makes hypnosis more obvious than seeing someone's eyes roll back as their body goes limp. anything before can just look like intense focus, anything after can just look like a deep sleep, but that, the moment of the drop, is the hallmark of trance. it makes it inarguable that they are hypnotized.

and that's all well and good, of course!! a perfectly natural and reasonable explanation for why we like that moment so much. but i also think it goes a little deeper than that: i think, as a community, we tend to be obsessed with the act of breaking. lemme explain!

so, when you think about it, hypnosis doesn't need a "drop" moment. in fact, most therapeutic and other such clinical hypnosis lacks such a cliff edge, instead they guide the subject smoothly and slowly down, settling at the bottom of their trance without even letting them know they've entered it. the line stays blurry, the moment of Drop remains fuzzy.

but for us, the drop is rather quintessential. we want to know the moment someone gives in, the moment their conscious mind gives way under the building pressure of a hypnotist's words, we want to see them break. we wanna break ourselves, we wanna break each other, we want to fragment that conscious mind into little pieces that can all just drift naturally away. where's the fun in letting that moment remain ambiguous? of course it's fun to steadily dismantle somebody, take them apart piece by piece, but i think we always want a moment where the pieces separate, cleanly defined, easy.

this desire to break extends beyond the drop. in our writing, our descriptions, we often use words like shatter, fall, dissolve, melt, all to describe that same thing. we want our natural selves to vanish, to break into a million pieces, if only temporarily, so that something else can be drawn out of us by a hypnotist. we want our subjects to come apart, evaporate, so that we can build them back as something different, something made in our image

of course, it's rare we ever really break. it's a controlled demolition, even at its most destructive, less like dropping a pane of glass on the ground and more like sawing it steadily apart, but we still pursue that sense of sudden, explosive shattering. we still look for the moment where We stop being, and someone else is made in our place

i think that's part of why we're so interested in the idea of the drop. it's such a special moment, it encapsulates so much, and it is that sense of shatter, in one gloriously visible, writable moment. if ever there was a thing that could be said to encapsulate the hypno community's desire to break and be broken, it would be the drop.

WE'RE MUTUALS ???!? AAUAGH I DIDN'T EVEN CHECK!!

honestly you have no idea how much things like this mean to me, like- i know this blog has been kinda inactive for a little bit (my apologies, i'll be back when a very persistent episode of writer's block is over) inspiring people to make things is like. kind of my raison d'etre. to know that even one person went out and started making something because of something i wrote makes me kick my legs like an idiot

as a quick disclaimer, i'm not endorsing any of the things i talk about here- generally, the people who drop into your inbox with a spiral and don't ask for consent are not going to be worth the effort of talking to. at best, their trances will be as low-effort as their inductions, and at worst, they'll be actively predatory and dangerous.

...however--

whenever i see one of these messages, someone dropping into the dms with a generic spiral gif and a "you will obey me now" opener, my immediate response is "eugh," but my second response is "...but wouldn't it be hot if that worked, though?" imagine it. imagine if your mind was so fragile- if everyone's mind was so fragile that an image and some honeyed words were all it would take to put you deep under trance. imagine if hypnosis really was mind control, and you could be pulled helplessly into someone's commands, totally unable to disobey.

it's kind of a dark fantasy, but isn't it appealing in its own frightening way?? a world where some random stranger can take over your mind, your arms falling to your sides, your lips parting slightly as you go nice and slack for them. anything you were doing, your entire day erased, as you type that delightfully cringe, stereotypical "yes, master..." into the chatbox and hit send.

maybe this is a product of the fact that i was introduced to hypnosis through omegle, and that i spent an entirely inadvisable amount of time there while it was alive. and let me tell you, the hypnotists there were trashy. it was very rare that i actually went under, but i usually played along, just to keep this fantasy going. what if it worked? what if i- what if everyone was that easy? what if... hypnotists ruled the world?

i did know that, actually! the history of hypnosis is WILD and fraught with an equal mixture of geniuses and grifters, psychology and pseudoscience- it's not something i've managed to dive into quiiite as deeply as the mechanics of hypnosis, but it's always been wildly interesting to me.

me getting a new ask and realising i've had this one just sitting in my box for like over a month and just missed it. i'm so good at this whole social media thing

anyways yes hiii!! i love my banner so much it's so me. you don't see it as much on this blog because i spend all my time infodumping about hypnosis, but i am just. boykisser extraordinaire, it even says it in my bio

so i had a fun experience in voice chat today! there’s this discord activity called blazing eights that is basically just uno— bear with me, i promise this is hypno-related— and myself and a couple friends were all playing it. one of them, who we’ll just call PK, played one of those “change the colour” cards and couldn’t figure out how to actually use it, because the UI for this game is really weird and bad. PK had already timed out of being able to choose the colour once, so they were a little frantic, rushing to figure out how to do it before the game just chose it for them

so at this point another one of the people in the game, who only had one card left, jokingly said “make it green,” since, y’know, that would have won them the game! PK actually laughed at this, so i know they heard it in the moment. and then they figured it out, finally realised how to actually choose the colour, and then they… made it green. it actually took PK a couple of seconds to realise what they’d done, and at that point, the other player had already won. it was pretty funny!! they very incredulously asked “WHY DID I MAKE IT GREEN??” since they knew full well that doing so would make them lose the game. we all laughed about it, because it was funny in the moment, but then i got to thinking about it. you can probably tell based on the title of this post where i’m going with this!

this is, funny enough, a very useful case study on how confusion and shock inductions actually work. it’s kind of the perfect real-world demonstration of it! PK was confused and occupied, frantically trying to figure out how to play the game properly, and when they heard essentially a direct order, even a joking one, they really didn’t pay it any mind. but once they had cleared up the thing that was taking up their brain space, their brain sort of “loaded in” the thing they had heard, and before they even realised what they were doing or processed it fully, they just… obeyed. the command slipped past their critical thought and took effect before they could actually think about it, because it was slipped in while they were confused and frantic

you can apply this principle in a lot of places, the classic rapid induction being one of my faves! we’ve all seen the jerk the arm and shout “sleep” thing, and it really works the same way. the subject is dazed and confused by the sudden physical sensation, and while they’re in the midst of processing that, trying to figure out what just happened to them, and reorienting their kinesthetic sense, that command hits first, and just like PK did, they obey before they have the chance to think about it. a deeper part of them obeys, really! the command passes right through the critical, conscious mind and vanishes into the depths of thought, which just follow it uncritically

and a lot like PK, by the time they realise what they did, it’s too late. they’re already asleep, or have already lost the game. it’s such an interesting induction tactic- and obviously, such a hot one. just having a command slipped past all your faculties, giving you no choice but to follow. you don’t even get the chance to think about it. you’re just gone…

i've vagued about this idea and talked a lot about how language connects to the art of hypnotism before but i've never made a proper post about these fun little word ties. but i feel like once you've crossed a certain hypnohorny point you start to get aroused by like, parts of the dictionary. and who can blame you?? the nature of language is that it carries meaning. its mechanism- and similarly, the mechanism of hypnosis- is the ability to incept you, to put ideas in your head

there are a lot of really good mantras out there but i think one of my favourites and one of the most effective (for me at least!!) is the most simple one: "i'm hypnotized" a longtime hypnosub has so many ties and associations with that word. with being Hypnotized. it's so deeply ingrained in your mind and in your psyche that you don't need it described to you, and most of the time you can't even describe it. you're just hypnotized

because at the end of the day hypnosis is a state that's unique to everyone, and you're always going to have very unique, very self-identifying ties to its meaning!! so often, when you've been around the trance block a billion times, what can be just as effective as describing your trance to you is simply reminding you that you ARE in trance, and conjuring up all the feelings related to that

i get so much out of being firmly, authoritatively reminded that i'm deeply hypnotized. being informed that i'm being brainwashed. they're concepts with so much power and meaning and history in my life that just being told the simple factual truth outright makes me shudder and sigh

i think this- these associations- are a large part of why so many things in our hypnokink culture work so well. on a fundamental level, spirals are kinda silly, right?? there's nothing INHERENTLY hypnotic about a spinning shape, besides being a pretty useful focus object in how they draw your gaze to the center and keep it there, but that's just it!! there doesn't have to be anything inherently hypnotic about a spiral for it to be an INCREDIBLY powerful hypnotic tool because it reminds you of hypnosis. you associate it with all the times you've been in a deep trance, eyes wide open and fixated on the center point, and that association digs its roots into your mind and sends you back to that state

so many things are like this. finger snaps, pocket watches, the word Sleepy, none of them have any intrinsic hypnotic power but they all have SO much power over all of us, because they're an extension of the power that other people have had over us. at the end of the day, that's what it is- these are tools that someone used to control you.

i don't just mean tech control and brain chips and stuff, although those are super fun!! but it's more like... the idea that you can exploit the human brain is just. on my mind frequently imagine if one day we discovered a visual pattern or something that could totally hijack your mind. like it just tickled all the right neurons that it triggered some sort of cascade and broke you wide open, leaving you suggestible and pliant

i think a major reason this is on my mind so often is because it's the sort of thing that would be LITERALLY impossible to resist. like what are you gonna do?? for a psychological process you can struggle, hold out, fight, but for a neurological process you just. snap. gone. there's also this clinical aspect to it, where you're sort of treated like a machine; a bundle of neurotransmitters that can be sparked in a way that's just proper, and then reprogrammed

so basically i just get sooo weak when inductions use this kind of language. even if it's complete nonsense it just!! it calls forth this imagery when a spiral is described not just as a focus but as a stimulator or something like that, and when its mechanism is described. hell, it doesn't even have to go for the neurological stuff- isn't it really really hot and squirm inducing when you're being TOLD how you're being hypnotized? like the opposite of covert stuff, when the hypnotist is just calmly explaining to you all the complex things they're doing to your mind and you're just too zoned out to even clock that you're being put under control