Out of all my fetishes, I can definitely pinpoint the animation that got me hooked on hypnosis. It was the Curly Brace animation by Zedrin where Quote controls Curly through a program. The way she looked while controlled was thrilling to say the least.

So thanks Curly for not only giving me gender envy but for giving me such a huge fetish!

Not very original but def Kaa from the jungle book. However it evolved since then and now what I really love to see are characters mind altered to act in a goofy, stupid or strange way or who gain weird obsession for stupid, strange or lame activities/fads

I feel I've said this on here or maybe it was on a discord. But basically 2 main things.
1st was stumbling across a video when I was just hitting puberty of a stage hypnotist having woman orgasm on command and my hormone-horny brain was like 'ooo i like the sounds they're making'.
The 2nd is cartoons/anime... but specifically: Sailor Moon for the corruption transformations (like for the dark lady) being so sexy. And then Kim Possible and Totally Spies (among others) having plenty of hypno scenes that were just so hot.

As a child, those scenarios in episodes were always making me uncofortable, but somehow facinating me. Also, I always had trouble falling asleep.

That feelings grew up during teenagehood, even if I discovered to be aromantic and asexual (the reason why I have safe mode enabled, to avoid the intercourse/private part fetish being involved...).

(Example shows I watched were some episodes of the OG Teen Titans Series, The Incredibles 2, some episodes in the end of og Last Exile anime, and also some in Lolirock, well, loads of things.)

I have some memories of these episodes. Gosh, I loved the one where there were a hypno-dance party (If I remember well, the people caught would begin to smash things for no reason...)

Unsure if the Pokémon episode people are talking about are the one I'm talking about but that first Malamar episode from X&Y sent me down a deep slope when I first saw it. Oh boy.

knowledge of the nature of power

I'm not sure if this is THE thing; but it is one of my earlier memories and I've been thinking about it a lot recently. One of the Dragon Quest games on the ds (I think it was 8) had a villain who wanted to brainwash your character and I remember playing it on repeat and losing to them on purpose

I remember many of times through the years where I've tried to find that episode that Clover gets brainwashed by a woman on the island.

Also the salon one = YES

I am not sure if it was this specifically, but the first time I can remember thinking "wow haha that's interesting I bet this won't have an effect on me whatsoever" was definitely seeing that scene of the Sailor Scouts in the Labyrinth of Mirrors and getting hypnotized, as well as (of course) Winx Club's whole Dark Bloom thing.

God, so FREAKING much of my childhood had themes of hypno, it's no WONDER it rubbed off on me. Spongebob's bucket hats, cartoons and kids shows like RTT and Ace Lightning, and I think it was a Madagasgar movie that had a whole musical sequence where the crew go full-scene hypno? The spongebob movie (watched in class) and the Madagasgar one (saw on a school trip to cinema) come close to mind. Also an episode of Knight Rider where a sensual woman whispers commands into Michael's ear, her voice blending with the music to become hypnotic and putting him to sleep so she can steal KITT. It's like every 3rd show had it, and it's still alive in things like the Incredibles and so on today.

Tell you what; watching a movie like that with this fetish hits DIFFENT, as I'm sure everyone here understands. @.@

I don't think I ever knew per say what this was until I discovered this from R34. Something...reawakened in me. So many different childhood memories of TV shows, movies, or my own childhood discovery of Hentai and Porn at a young age created this sort of need.

The idea of losing control, becoming a vessel only to someone else's pleasure or taking control of someone with little to no resistance seemed so strange. I think part of it was the fact that I wanted to give someone else complete control over my life, the other part of it was to have that same ability. Can you tell I'm a switch? Anywho, it's also a way for me to deal with the trauma of a set of bad sexual encounters online and in person throughout my life. Maybe they would have ended up differently if I knew I never had any control in the first place? Or if I had full control? Who knows. Either way. I think I feel safer and turned on through something so niche and interesting. And I get to find other like minded people too!

I was researching hypnosis to address my mental health issues, and accidentally discovered erotic hypnosis. This was right around while I was having my sexual awakening as a teenager... I never stood a chance lol

PMV on pornhub, was feeling extra kinky and taboo so I started watching babe/cock ones, than just cock ones, than it got more and more extreme depraved and now I don't even watch em anymore lol! It's so ingrained in my psyche, it became my psyche, it always was my psyche because it was always there I just awakened it.

Hypnosis was always something I was scared of in cartoons and such. I think it might've been Jungle Book 2 and Aladdin, especially (also might've given me a femdom thing weirdly).

Later on, as a teen, "hypnotic dances" and "erotic hypnosis" appeared on YouTube, and it's official.