I had been trying to write a mc story and for inspiration I have been thinking about “how would I hypnotize the subject” and in the same time I was working on the manip… Testing some things… Setting brightness, transparency, playing with colors… Put spiral all over the picture and try other shapes… Make spiral brighter, darker, brighter… In the same time, I was thinking how peaceful, sleepy and beautiful the girl in the picture looks and I wanted to make her even more peaceful and sleepy. And like I said, in the same time I was thinking about how I would hypnotize the girl in the picture… I made up a full script and wanted to take a few parts out of it for my story… Somewhere in the middle, I have unintentionally went to trance. Well, working on that image is just like a full HD video and I was completly focused on it… I fell asleep and had a nice dream about a cat girl.
Yep, epic fail. My fail makes a fine story in itself. Have you ever failed like that?

By the way, if you want to improve the qulity of my script I was talking about, come over to hypnohub.net/forum/show/13642

Wow. Never heard of a incident like that before!

First time i've heard of that. But i've never gone completely into trance either so there's that. You should definitely make that a story though.

After I compiled the frames for <<hypnohub.net/post/show/10...xx-gardevoir-hypnotic_eye|this>> I watched it loop for a bit to make sure it ran smoothly. While watching I noticed that my focus would narrow and my consciousness waned a bit. After uploading it, I decided to try staring for a longer stretch. Just staring. I got sleepy, or something, my heart started to beat faster, and I experienced an unusual but pleasant sensation that was mostly in my chest.

I didn't previously know that these things actually worked, I thought I was just animating a special effect. Now I think I broke myself. In a good way, though.

I did not think that there are skeptics that are sceptical about the idea "does the hypnosis works" among hypnosis lovers. Sceptics... Everywhere.

I knew that hypnosis was real. What I didn't know was that staring into the cliche "rings in the eyes" thing could actually hypnotize somebody, much less myself.

I know your weakness now...

Is that a threat, or a promise?

Yes.

It's whichever you want it to be ;-P

I've never managed to experience anything close to what anyone describes as hypnosis.

I think the closest I've gotten is that a few times I've been really into a song in the car on a really familiar drive and then realized I hadn't really been paying attention to driving for the last 90 seconds and had no recollection of the road/cars/lights in that interval.

I'm a pretty big skeptic just based on the fact that it doesn't seem remotely possible for me. Everyone is different but human beings don't seem all that different. *shrug*

What you describe is a kind of hypnosis, or at least, a kind of trance. Hypnosis is not an unnatural state of mind, which is what I think a lot of people fail to understand (I know I did). Even those who know it isn't what it's portrayed as in fantasy still tend to view it as something mystical, when really, it's just taking advantage of things the mind does naturally.

So say like if I'm reading a book an I just kinda start imagining the scene in my head and I kinda stop realising I'm reading words and block out everything else. I do that a lot when reading....

And there are times when I'm thinking of stuff to draw I kinda space out thinking of drawing and then realise I've not drawn anything for about 20 minutes.

Is it kinda like those kind of things?

Bingo! Hypnosis is just a different kind of focus. While reading, you are paying attention to nothing but the words and spacing everything out. Then those words basically guide you through the story, like a hypnotist guiding you through a trance. And if say, someone were to tap you on the shoulder to get your attention, then most likely you would snap out of it to answer their question.

Daydreaming is roughly the same thing as well. Just spaced out focus.

I know I'm not as good at explaining it as Mindwipe, but him and I came to this realization pretty close to the same time, so it's still fresh in my head as well. I also want to recommend people find someone they trust and give it a go at least once. It doesn't even have to be sexual, all I did was be guided through waves of relaxation.

I see you liked my explanation of it last night. :P



Indeed. Given Mindwipe's description, last night, of the feeling of trance, it turns out that I can say with a fair level of surety that I can and have achieved actual states of trance simply by meditating. It is a very nice, calm state of mind, yes, but it's not quite as mystical as people make it out to be. And, as you said in what I quoted MrGerp, someone tapping me on the shoulder and/or calling my name has snapped me out of it, lingering sensations of calmness being all that remained of the state.

Funny that, while that snaps me out of it, someone running over my leg with their bike doesn't. True story. Only really knew they did it because they began to apologize profusely.

That makes me wonder offhandedly if there is some sort of numbing effect caused by a trance. It would make sense, considering people often feel like they're "floating", which could be the brain misinterpreting the lack of input with the sense of feeling, making it seem as though they're touching nothing, not even the ground.