averageguy17 said:
Huh... I've never actually been around a hypnotized person before but do their pupils really dilate? I've seen it drawn before but never seen it in real life. Why does that happen?
Haven't yet been blessed with hypnotizing someone in-life (just over the internet through text and voice), but according to my hypno sensei, this does happen. The eyes also tend to become fixed and the whole head is more likely to move in order to look at something. And they become more watery and reflective - which is why I've never gotten behind the 'empty eyes' trend and people thinking eye glistens =/= hypno, since it turned out to be counter to reality.
Also, yes! Another person who acknowledges how great complex triggers can be! You said that you have experience so I want to ask you a question; can the complexity of a trigger ruin a trance? I mean besides from the obvious (insert near-impossible task here), does the intelligence of the subject affect how complex a trigger they can handle?
Well, any time I give hypnosis advice I'm always expecting an actual professional to swoop in and knock me upside the head ^^ I'm an amateur who's only interest in real hypnotism is erotica, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
But my general rule of thumb when giving any suggestions, commands, triggers, what have you is to ask myself 'will this make the sub stop and think?' The more they have to actively get their brain-gears spinning, the more it will pull them out of a trance and closer to consciousness. So you can make a trigger as complicated as you want as long as everything you are saying is easily understandable and / or familiar to the sub. I can say something like 'whenever you hear the word 'apple,' do 10 jumping jacks' because the sub is already very familiar with both the word 'apple' and how to do a jumping jack. A big key to successful hypnosis is being able to tell a story as descriptively as possible, so think of it like having a person read a book you wrote - the better it flows and easier to understand, the more your reader will get immersed in it, but if you're using obscure words, unfamiliar references, run-on sentences, etc you're going to lose them.
Along these same lines, like kirux said, text hypnosis is indeed possible and under the right circumstances can be just as satisfying as voicework. But it's inherently more difficult for the sub, because they still have to use their hands to type responses and focus their eyes to read the 'tist's words, which will take them at least slightly out of trance. With voice chat, they just have to hear and respond, allowing them to get fully immersed.
Like anything, it helps if you already have experience with your sub and are in-tune to their personalities and preferences. I'm not really big on randomly meeting people and jumping right into the hypno-sack. I prefer having a smaller group of devoted friends to play with, and at this point I'm pretty in-tune with the things they like and don't like, and can give them a good hypno experience. So in addition to the previous reasons, I'm not the best person for advice on how to knock out strangers on Omegle or wherever ^^;