I'm talking about all the akward moments in your life, for example when you get visibly uncomfortable watching any sort of mind control in any media with friends together, reading hypno instead of hypo every time and suspecting a mind control trap behind everything (: has anyboy had similar experiences?

Well my parents found out about my hypnofetish a month ago. It happened when they searched my sister's computer and found a link to my Deviantart account. She basically snitched on me when they thought it was her. My stepdad sometimes jokingly calls me 'Spiral Boy' because I wrote a novella called "Lady of Spirals."

Yesterday, my ex (who I hypnotized a few times) invited me to our old clan's discord chat. She basically put me on the spot and everyone on there got a bit freaked out at my avatar. It was a pic of Lauren Kifton (one of my original characters) with her tits out and fully bimbotized. All of my old clan mates were scared to check out my Deviantart. None of my RL friends except my ex know.

I have a pretty good handle on keeping my fetish separate from my daily life. My husband knows about my kink to a small degree and the artwork I make; he thinks it's kind of strange but it doesn't bother him. It's also not a kink I'd want to act out in real life so it doesn't appear in our sex life. Obviously my kids know nothing about it and only see the safe artwork I draw---they know that Kenny has hypnotic powers, but they don't know I draw him like that for fetish reasons; they just know it's a cartoony power that some animated characters have.

As for accidentally watching something with hypnosis/mind control in it with people in the room, I've gotten pretty good at hiding how awkward it is in my adult years. Back when I was a kid/teenager the weird burning shame I felt was nearly unbearable and I would have to leave the room. In my third grade class my teacher showed us The Jungle Book for a movie day and I nearly had a panic attack. But nowadays I have no trouble treating it like it's not a big deal. I chalk it up to just growing up and being more responsible with it.

I don't talk about it with family and real life friends
And I use another user name for my fetish accounts



Some of my friends think it's strange I have a huge collection of 80 & 90 cartoons ( torrent )
But that all they know

My god that jungle book thing sounds horrible x: I felt ashamed from reading medieval literature in class, where even something "harmless" like love potions was pretty much everywhere and it was so hard to keep a straight face and a neutral unimpressed voice (and for some reason I always fear that a forced unimpressive voice comes off as too obvious) especially when quoting a character who just went against her full personality because of the love potion.
I'm from Germany and not only is this the origin of most fairy tales, the fact that I'm not a natural english speaker means that during higher english classes we only read through the classics...
Lot's of Shakespeare
Lots of love potions and magic

Lots of shame...

Oh no, having to read a section in a book where someone is mind-controlled aloud to people was so embarrassing, I know the feeling. I had to read some kind of wacky alien invasion book in elementary school (I think it was called Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars or something) where the aliens ate people's brains and made them into monotone zombies and that was hellish to hear/read aloud with my schoolmates present.

(Off-topic but that's so cool that you're from Germany---I've always wanted to learn how to speak German and maybe visit there someday. :D)

Sounds like the thing that shouldn't exactly be considered erotic... I know exactly what you mean o:

(continuing the off-topic, where do you live? (: learning German should be a lot easier when speaking English because of how similar the two languages are, but it still is full of traps like our 16 different translations for the word "the" :D there are also lots of beautiful places to visit
Just don't ever try to be seductive when speaking German, it will pretty much always sound cringy x.x )

Gee, I’d say that my fetish has affected me outside of my time as a kinkster plenty. Ironically, my online pastimes aside from kinky stuff have demonstrated more effects of this kink on my life than what I do in person. But even in my younger years, I knew well enough that my fascination wasn’t normal or easy to explain to anyone so I generally hid it well.

However, the thought terrified me of people knowing what I was like until... around the time I was 21 or 22. That was when I came out to people what I liked and discovered I wouldn’t be seen as some kind of consent-violating villain. Without a lot of exposure to real BDSM-style play with hypnosis being shown to me, I couldn’t reconcile my kink very well, for a while anyway, among company who weren’t “hypno-horny on main”. Now it’s easy for me to call some out-of-touch Puritan delusional for thinking MC fantasies are “sexually violent” or some nonsense.

It’s funny in retrospect because I remember a time where a past acquaintance of mine posted hypno-art of Cynthia or Sabrina from Pokémon getting the trance treatment, and my heart damn near skipped a beat. I genuinely thought I let slip an image into a nsfw discord channel without realizing it, but nowadays I could point to it and no one would really be surprised I already have it saved somewhere.

I also knew this one person with some highly active sleep-talking tendencies during nightly chats, and I was suuuper careful with what I might say to that person because I didn’t know if any suggestions I might say would do anything when they’d wake up (Obviously it didn’t work like that, but still). Anyways, I called the person a somnambulist one time in an endearing way, and I heard a brief pause where I think everyone else wondered how I even knew the word... I totally learned it from hypnosis kink stories.

For real life though, it makes some topics generally awkward to talk about. The funny thing is the way I talk or acknowledge hypnosis-related topics probably makes me look like I consider hypnotizing someone as preposterous. Oh, I know real hypnosis all right. I just don’t want to risk having to explain any weird thing I say to people. I do still have moments where I hear about Kaa in Jungle Book and think, “Oh, here we go again. Just wait this topic out...”

The same thing happened to me but it was in fourth or fifth grade.

Nobody knows, (my god i hope so), though i will refuse to watch some movies, with the excuse that I think its bad, or me needing to go to the toilet.

In popular media, whenever hypnosis or spiral eyes happen, my brain immediately goes into overdrive. just tonight I was watching the new HBO Max Series "Close Enough" from Regular Show's creative team (its really good go watch it) and there was one scene with animals and spiral eyes. I had to consciously think, "This isn't a big deal. At least its animals and not people. if they were anthropomorphic at all you would be screwed"
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My parents found out maybe once when I was young, and a roommate of mine back in college after looking at my porn history. Both have likely forgotten as it hasn't been brought up in years. years of bad experiences taught me to not make a big deal of it...and thankfully, it wasn't a big deal.

One of my best friends from senior year of undergrad suggested very heavily that we share the same fetish during a mutual conversation so thats cool. But we never really went farther than that one convo from when I visited him last year.

My girlfriend knows and is very accepting of the kink. I've hypnotized her with mixed success a handful of times over our 4 years together (maybe like...5?). Its nice.

Some of my girlfriends like to indulge my kink in real life. Always fun to pretend a lover's singing or smoking compels you into heeding their every command, submitting yourself to them, getting ready to make love...

It doesn't. I refuse to let it.

It's as difficult as one could expect due to a lack of privacy

Oh yeah, it wasn't exactly a turn-on or anything, but it was hella awkward that it was so close to being mind control. Couldn't wait for us to finish that damn book X'D On that same note, I remember being in study hall during my high school years and the classroom had a random assortment of books to read, and I just happened to pick a book called Night Chills by Dean Koontz, in which mind control is basically the central plot, and there's a part where a guy uses trigger words on a woman to get her to have sex with him. I felt dirty reading it there in a school classroom, I remember thinking "wtf is this book doing here" XD

(I'm American! Born and bred in New York---not the city, but upstate. I had the opportunity to learn German in high school, but I took Spanish instead because I heard it was easier. And I think the German language/accent is pretty sexy, but maybe that's because I'm not used to hearing it XD There's a German electronic group I listen to called And One and the lead singer's voice just oozes sexy XD)

Yes, I remember those weird vibes of something not exactly erotic but still close to mind control so often but lucky enough I never had to sit through that in school (mostly anime I watched as a child that had tons of mind control like yugioh). That book sounds... Interesting, but it must've been such an awkward read. I had to present a book about an old teacher raping a schoolgirl once and then pretty much blackmailing her to be his wife, which was an 18th century German book, and while I wasn't turned on, I still had those "what the fuck is this doing here how am I supposed to talk objectively about stuff like that"-moment, although it was more from being crept out.

(cool, isn't upstate new york where the phrase "steamed hams" comes from? And I can see how the German accent can be sexy, it always sounds prrrrrrrretty commanding :P I haven't heard of that band actually, but of course there's always good old Rammstein too. But sometimes the words themselves can be kinda awkward, the German language is kinda hard split into being methodical like a scientific essay, sounding childish or sounding like an old drunk pervert talking to the cheapest whore possible who is just as drunk as him... It just feels so awkward being a sub and neither feel like the object of a sterile study, nor like a literal dirty whore, nor as a child x: German is an efficient emotionless language of precision :P here I'm just kidding but yeah, to this day I've never found a satisfying trainslation of "good girl" for example... But it's really cool but a bit hard to learn, I've never learned Spanish in return but I had Latin, which is essentially the origin of Spanish, Italian and partially French too.)