Miss HypnoFascinated

Three main reasons:

1. More hypnotized people = good (self explanatory)

2. Sub agency is increased. If you know how to hypnotize others, you subconsciously enhance your own mental guards. Hypnosis can cause strange reactions, and by experimenting with inductions and suggestions, you won't be caught in a spiral if it happens (literal and metaphorical spiral).

The night air was the perfect temperature after a long, hot day. I’m free to roam the camping- and festival grounds after helping out for the last few hours. As I walk toward the vendors, I contemplate which friends I want to wander around with tonight. Maybe some of them are also up to browsing the wares. I heard there are some rare shirts available and I’ve had my eye on them for a while.

I whip out my phone and routinely scroll through all the messages I missed when I was volunteering. But before I get through them, a message from you pops up. I feel my pulse racing. I had secretly been hoping for exactly this. From the moment I pitched my tent, I was reminded of the hypnotic experiences I had in that specific tent. Lovely trances, every one of them. Lying barely dressed on top of the sleeping bag, as I was too warm to sleep and too hot to think.

But those were always after midnight. Or at least after the main festivities. You are early. Maybe you just want to chat, or to check in? I look around me, and decide that I can chat while I walk to the merch area. I smile widely into my phone screen as I tell you how I’ve been.

But then you say that it is late. And that I’m tired.

Sudden fatigue rises in my body. Was I always this influenceable? I wonder if I want what you are insinuating. I don’t often try to resist, but I am now here, at this festival. It was hard to get tickets. These few short days have too much to do. I see the beautifully lit castle on the distant hill. I look at the spotlights of the artist alley and the merch shop next to the lasers of the music stage in the distance. I think of the show-and-tell that I hoped to attend in an hour, and of the friends that I only see for these few days each year.

I feel the slow, lazy desire that wants to do nothing more than follow your words. It is a conflict, but not a competition. It is day 1 of a multi-day festival, there is more to come, and I am tired. I feel that now.

Sitting on the floor at their side as they sit on a chair or couch

Resting your head on their legs/thighs

Looking up at them/them looking down at you

Being on your knees next to them

Being at their feet as they stand

Too often, both online and offline, dommes are treated somewhat like kink dispensing machines. Pleading face goes in, femdom comes out. The best submissives, the ones who I truly value, and who make me feel valued in turn, are active participants in the scene. They check in, they help direct the tone and intensity, they break character to ensure that we are both happy and fulfilled.

If you've never ran a scene, if you've never dominated another person, it can be difficult to get across what goes into it all. There's a responsibility there, especially when there's a sadism/masochism element involved. It takes a toll to do these things, to feel these things, and having a play partner who supports you is vital to practicing truly healthy kink.

This is a favorite of mine. The esthetics, the idea, the story potential, the impact in real life, all are excellent!

I like big headphones better then earpods, as the visual indication of connection that is just you and the sounds the hypnotist wants you to hear, is really special to me.

Bone conduction headphones are like the reverse. They are more hidden, and they don't disconnect one from the outside world. The audio quality is meh, but the feeling of words whispered directly on a temple. The vibrations directly inside your mind. All while the outside notices are there, but they are not important now. The only thing that matters are the whispers, the sounds, that blend in with thoughts so easily... what was I saying again?

Anyways, magic headphones are slightly less interesting for me, as I like the real effects they can have so much. LoFi has been life-changing for me, I now have a cheat mode for concentration and flow everywhere I have headphones. And that makes binaurals more effective than they have any right to be. +10 to focus, it sounds like something out of a game.

I like the look of matching headphones and clothes. They add a balance to faces that I like. And wireless, they don't limit much if at all. And bluetooth headphones can be hijacked. I have not read about those in a while, but I see potential there. Either direct control of the headphones to play what the subject should hear, or control of the phone to layer over the music that is played, and full control over bluetooth smart watches to monitor responses or distract with buzzing when responses are either good or unwanted, and the other bluetooth devices that can be controlled.

I have come to like tech control better with the years. I have this special fantasy of being a hypnotised assistant with headphones keeping me dreamy and my other devices keeping me occupied till I'm needed.

Alternative hypnokink rating scale (Spiral Rating from 0 Spirals to 5 Spirals 🌀)

5🌀

Standard Kink Rating Scale

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know

Hypnokink Rating Scale

I'd never really thought about the different implications of different types of headphones. Over-ear ones definitely seem more isolating but there's something almost intimate about in-ear ones. Like they leave open the option of some kind of physical brain penetration as well as just audio.

Also, this is an incredibly sexy mental image to leave hidden down in the tags:

A dom role model for me is Alex Horne from Taskmaster. For real.

He doesn’t resemble anything you’d see on the cover of a BDSM paperback, either in form or manner: he seems completely unassuming, and often affects that he’s just there to help. But he is in fact the orchestrator of the labyrinth the contestants find themselves in - he is the one whose plan directs their furious activity, and he enjoys that. They often try to tease him, but when it comes to the rules of the games, the mild mannered englishman suddenly becomes a steel wall: “All the instructions are on the card”.

So this is very different than the dominant who commands obedience by sheer force of will and presence, and also from the “daddy dom” whose vibe is more nurturing. I was tempted to call what I’m talking about the “puppetmaster”, “mastermind” or “manipulator”. But these are not quite right, because they imply deception and coercion, which isn’t what I’m going for. The gamemaker offers an experience that you volunteered for - and then feel a slight (exciting) pit in your stomach wondering if you’re really up for this.

Again, that dom might not seem that dominating on the surface. They might act like the scientist at the control panel, pretending not to be getting aroused but just insisting that you go to the next test unit. They might be faux sympathetic: oh I’m sorry, I know it’s hard, but you can do this! They might just be whistling in the corner as their grand design plays out and it becomes your entire world for a little while.

When I say game, it doesn’t have to be a complicated, Mousetrap-esque plan that takes weeks to plan (though those can be fun!). Another big role model is Sean from Hot Ones, who pretends to be just a buddy, as the inexorable structure of his show compels the famous person to answer questions through higher and higher levels of pain. That’s a game. (on a very similar note: hysterical literature]

Sometimes I do make an elaborate plan, but most of my favourite games in the hypnokink realm are equally simple. For example: you start out defiant but your arousal keeps growing until you inevitably beg to be allowed to come. You desperately want to touch yourself but a hypnotic suggestion has paralyzed you. We’re having a wrestling match but you’re drugged, and keep getting sleepier and weaker. It’s all in your mind, but for as long as you consent, those game conditions are real.

But there are many wonderful equivalents by my colleagues in other kinks, e.g. predicament bondage. Anything that involves artificial restrictions, challenges, puzzles, impossible choices. In every case, though it’s a simple mechanism, we’ve wound it up, and it’s delicious to watch it go, and you go through it, exactly like we planned. (though some of the best games were co-designed with the bottom!)

Other examples of this archetype that come to mind, in no particular order of (pretend) wickedness: Sam Reich, Johnny Knoxville, GlaDOs, Jigsaw, Jareth the Goblin King, Roberta Williams who invented King’s Quest, Q from Star Trek. If any of those have turned you on, you might enjoy playing with a gamemaker.

What is the making of a gamemaker? Well you probably loved stories, probably had at least a shortlived fascination with stage magic, probably have at least tried DMing (in the D&D sense). (You might have had a period, hopefully long ago, of being an insufferable "debate me" atheist) There might be a fascination with technology, making the bytes or the gears dance the way you want. The common thread is mental domination. Your mind is controlling the situation, and this might mean commanding someone’s attention and taking over their reality - but without the element of bullying, or winning in a struggle.

All that said, gamemaker is not all of who I am as a dom: sometimes I just want to pounce, or order someone around. But I would say at least half the time I have sex with my spouse there is some kind of hypnotic game involved - either an old favourite, or one I just came up with that day, sometimes while daydreaming during a boring meeting. Some people crochet; a hobby for me is weaving webs that I hope you will be happy to be trapped in.