God chose this path for me.

As for when it awakened in me, idr anything outside of porn sites triggering it, but I first found it erotic after seeing an image of Sabine on Pokemon hypnotised in a mirror (would link it but can’t be asked rn).

Reading erotica

other people have it so it was easier to find content for it than my older fetishes which did not exist online. Not even as a wiki page...

i remember having a dream when i was like 7 where i was tied to a board and forcefully hypnotsed befre i woke up
since then i found the concept interesting then it evolved from there

"How did you discover your fetish?"
-"It was revealed to me in a dream".

Boutta be the Ramanujan of hypnosis fr

I don’t recall the first time I remember seeing hypnosis in media. It was probably the Junglebook like most people. But I do vaguely remember always feeling weird whenever scenes like that did happen. But I definitely know that the Music Meister episode from ‘Batman Brave and the Bold’ solidified it for me. Seeing Black Canary singing mindlessly in that leotard she always wears made my head explode.

I honestly don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it was some anime or cartoon; of that I'm certain.

It straight up came out of nowhere. I can think of no solid origin for it like a tv show or movie, I just really like Cyberpunk settings where my consent is just a few keyboard taps away. Magical mind control is hot to me too, I'm not a big fan of pendulums or mind control app scenarios though. Sounds stupid but it breaks my suspension of disbelief...

Probably my own crippling social anxiety. I don't have many friends and no relationships so over time I think I just internalized the fantasy of being able to make people like me, because I can remember not having this kink. From there it just merged with other fetishes so it is what it is now.

Watching fnf animations during COVID. It's really stupid but that's just how it happened

For as long as I can remember hypno scenes in any media made me excited and scared at the same time. I can, though, remember the exact moment it registered as sexual. I was watching a rerun of the Lois and Clark episode with the lady hypnotist and popped a boner when Lois got hypnotized by the tv. And again when the hypnotist triggers everyone at the end. From then on there was no going back. :)

I was a child, around 4 or 5 I think, and watched a lot of Lost In Space reruns. There is one episode where the daughter is captured by aliens and entranced or made sleepy with their power. That is the earliest foggy memory. After that every hypno/sleep induction type scene was fascinating.

Possibly the most unoriginal story, but the first Kaa encounter was my first boner ever. I used to watch several VHS tapes obsessively, and Jungle Book was one of them. I didn't know what my hard dick meant, I didn't even *see* it was hard, I just knew I liked that part of the movie more than any other (the second encounter wasn't on the same level). It just made me feel all cosy and warm.

Soon after I discovered masturbation and that scene was one of the first things I played in my head while doing it. I realized then that hypnosis made me feel these new sensations. Every occurrence anywhere in the media only further reinforced that impression after that. Later I even took the VHS in my room and wanked while playing the fateful scene over and over.

Fundamentaly, I don't think the scene *gave* me my fetish, it rather feels like it was there all along and that scene was at the right place at the right time. If it hadn't been this one, then another one would surely have produced the same effect.

That GODDAMN snake from the Jungle Book.
It all traces back to that fucker.

...granted I didn't know what to do with that feeling until I was older and googled hypno art and found Sue-Chan's website

So Kaa planted the seed and Sue-chan provided the water, you could say.