Zhingouz said:
While not a bad memory, it's worsened my previously mild pharmacophobia. The thought of someone slipping me something, losing control, being affected by a pure biological reaction without any recourse... scares me shitless, man.
In the case of "normal" hypnosis, there's still the assertion that you cannot be truly forced into anything. I rely on that a lot - frankly, the thought of the ability to force someone to do something outside of their normal selves is sickening to me (while at the same time being my hardest turn-on as a subfetish). I absolutely need that separation of fantasy and reality to maintain any enjoyment of hypnofetish material - but when it comes to real, hard molecules reacting? There's nothing I can do about that - and that's fucking scary.
While I don't have pharmacophobia (which I had to google let's be honest) a lot of this resonates with me. I know I'm a control freak and I'm working on it, but hypnosis or losing control so much that I have no inhibitions or take on a new, looser personality is both mind-bogglingly terrifying and the greatest turn-on to me.
Somehow I seem to attract friends over the internet with silky-smooth voices, you know the kind that just send shivers down your spine while talking about the weather. Not necessarily hypnotic on their own thankfully, I don't get huffy or turned on every time I hear their voices. That sure would make running around in MMO's together very awkward very quickly.
A few have tried to hypnotise me (after agreeing on it!) but only one's sort-of succeeded. I felt like I was playing along and still fully in control but at the same time I was so warm and felt like my mind was floating as if I was asleep, a great experience. (We don't talk anymore because of unrelated issues.)
The times where it didn't work were mostly due to my own apprehension and basically not trusting the person on the other side of the line to hold up "their end of the deal", and make me do stuff I wouldn't want to. I rarely truly trust people, but I do trust people to serve their own desires. It takes a lot of convincing for me to believe your desires in an intimate setting align with mine.
As long as I can convince myself it's only fantasy, I can enjoy it - but unhappy trances, degrading of the sub, ... nu-uh. That ain't nice.
My favourite scenario though, born from a rather unpleasant IRL experience oddly enough, has the sub lose themselves to pleasure, becoming completely submissive to the extacy of orgasm. (Not per sé a dom, though that does help with imagery etc.) A nice bonus then is the sub taking on a new personality that is bubblier, lighter, and far more driven by sex than the previous one. (Both personalities, if they're "two people in one body", would have to be okay with the arrangement, though!)
... Oddly specific. I know. But hey, that's my experience! This was pretty interesting to think about and write down :)