#patterns of thought

Fact #1: Intelligence doesn’t protect against trance. It provides the tools for it.

Fact #2: Focus is more important than suggestibility. A mind that can hold attention can also lose itself inside it.

Fact #3: Analysis doesn’t block hypnosis. It often becomes the doorway.

Fact #4: Overloading the conscious mind isn’t cruelty. It’s how thinking finally gets permission to rest.

Fact #5: The deepest surrender isn’t ignorance. It’s knowing — and choosing to stop holding the thread.

He leaves a gift behind—a fragment of his mind folded into yours. A suggestion you’ll carry into daylight.

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Hypnotic Hunger

The patterns in my brain cry out to feed the same words into the machine again, as the two women so often mentioned once opened endless streams of consciousness I can let flow, again and again.

The idea feels like placing myself on a carousel, spinning on and on.

How do I find new paths, routes I can take?

How do I establish new ways of thinking, let the patterns rest, stay open to unfamiliar ideas.

What is the source of my feelings of insufficiency? How am I insufficient?  These are burning questions in my mind.

Too much attention has been paid to societal approval and the capitalist media consumption that feeds my participation in that society.  Nothing is good enough for me. I have been conditioned to always be grasping for more. I too often focus on what I lack:

I lack self discipline.

I lack wanted attention.

I feel profound shame in my body. 

I lack achievement.

I lack passion and the motivation for necessary change.

What if I consider these another way? It's hard to gaze into this abyss of lacking, but I can spot the inverse.

I am intuitive and value my personal freedom and willing consent.  I follow my heart and go with the moment. I leave paths open for change.  I don’t prioritize things I don’t care about. I am a hedonist.

I know that I am not the center of the world. I have privacy and a sense of mystery.  I can become anonymous and do things without too much notice. I feel I can keep digging into myself without risking exposure to the world or disappointing many.

 I am generally healthy and disease free.  I don’t have any congenital diseases nor any disabilities.  My body generally functions well despite my neglect of its maintenance.  I am genetically lucky.

I have avoided the rat race. I don’t get caught up in the bullshit games of the workplace. I enjoy my job for being relatively easy, socially engaging, and giving me time to explore things outside of my profession.  I know any success is ephemeral and often out of my control.

My life is materially more comfortable than most people in history.  For most of history, the primary motivator for most humans was survival.  I don’t struggle for survival, so I am not motivated by the primary thing that has driven most of humanity forward.  Any focus I have is icing on the cake. I am pretty normal.

Fact #1: Memory play is not about erasing. It’s about changing how a memory lands in the body.

Fact #2: The most powerful anchors are emotional, not factual. A feeling remembered can pull deeper than a detail recalled.

Fact #3: Forgetting is rarely forced. It happens when the mind is given permission to let something slip.

Fact #4: Memory is already unstable. Hypnosis doesn’t break it — it uses the rules that are already there.

Fact #5: No hypnotist owns your past. At best, they help you learn how to watch it from a safer distance.

Before you start: The cadence of this writing is intentionally lulling and immersive. Some readers describe it as trance-like. If you tend to drift, take a moment to anchor yourself first.

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Why do some hypnotists use the word obey, and others never do? When someone says obey, with that weight in their voice, sometimes all you can do is listen… and yield.

That obey is a heavy word, full of force and certainty. Do as I say. Trust me. Your mind in my hands. Obey your superior. Your father. Your Dom. Your hypnotist.

To obey is to let go of control. It’s the quiet answer: Fine. I’m listening. I obey. I surrender. Guide me.

Because obey is like drop — a musical word, carrying gravity, trust, expectation, surrender. The mind stops fighting. Stops trying to control. Neurons rest, activity fades, and in that stillness other circuits light up, alternate paths, dopamine blooming in the dark.

Some hypnotists go further. They don’t just say obey. They strike like a chord: You will obey me. You will follow my command. Without doubt, question, or hesitation. A triple attack. It cuts out thought, erases hesitation. No questions. No critical mind. Just follow. Follow the one who guides. Like a serpent moved by the music.

The hypnotist — the conductor, baton and voice weaving through the body’s symphony, through the silences of the mind.

Others prefer it softer: listen, follow, allow, realize. Those gentle words that echo Erickson — no masters, no revealed truths, just the trance built from ambiguity, where meaning is yours to create.

And you… what kind of subject are you? Do you obey? Or do you follow?

Note: this piece contains soft hypnotic language and may feel trance-like.Read only if you’re comfortable, and proceed at your own pace.

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The famous phrase “when I, and only I, say it” is fascinating, and it serves several purposes.

First, it has a practical function: if the trigger depends on one single voice, it prevents accidental activations. If someone is highly susceptible, or listens to multiple hypnotists, something from another voice could interfere, so to speak. This helps to define when trance is and when it isn’t.

In a way, that’s why hypnotists develop a different voice from their ordinary one —to mark the boundary between daily life and trance space.

But that’s not all. The “only I” blends authority, fantasy, safety, and possession. It’s the moment when the hypnotic subject becomes symbolic property of the hypnotist —and that’s why it’s when I say so. It appeals to submissive subjects and to hypnotists who think more like Mesmer: dominant, paternal, guiding. And then comes the timeless question:

Do people want to be gently guided… or firmly led?

Another angle is possessiveness itself. Don’t hypnotists ever get jealous when their subjects go to others? Because if you don’t integrate your own triggers, should I assume you don’t care if I leave?

Dr. Milton Erickson —often called one of the fathers of modern hypnosis— did something quite different. He left long, strange, almost poetic triggers, so that they wouldn’t depend on his voice. His approach was therapeutic:

“You can depend on me for a while, but not forever.”

And that’s the real question. Do you want a trigger for everyday life, or for the erotic? If it’s for daily use, maybe it shouldn’t depend on one voice. But if what you want is to be wrapped in a velvet tone and a command you can’t ignore… then you already know which side you’re on.

Note: this piece contains soft hypnotic language and may feel trance-like.Read only if you’re comfortable, and proceed at your own pace.

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Most hypnotic subjects want to be hypnotized. Some might even need it — like a drug. Well, there are worse addictions.

But back to the point: once you reach the deepest layers of trance, most don’t want to come back.

That’s why careful counts or suggestions are needed, to guide them safely out.

And once they do, something interesting happens: the afterglow.

When a subject is deepest, freed from the chains, they’re most suggestible. Erickson often used this moment to gently slide in suggestions for lasting change.

These changes can persist beyond trance — post-hypnotic suggestions.

A thoughtful hypnotist leaves behind feelings of ease, pleasure, calm, relief from pain. And those feelings can linger today, tomorrow, the rest of the week… even the month.

You wake up. It’s another day. And somehow… you’re in a good mood. Things that would normally annoy you at work no longer do. Your mind, once manipulated, is quietly better.