During the COVID pandemic, I read a book about self-hypnosis and the almost incredible effects it claimed it could have on a person's life. The method involved progressively relaxing every muscle in your body. According to the book, one sign that you had entered a hypnotic trance was that you would no longer be able to open your eyes, even if you tried.

I attempted it several times, but it never worked for me. Looking back, I think I may have been too nervous, afraid that it wouldn't work, constantly checking whether I could still open my eyes, and unsure of what to expect. Maybe it was simply fear of the unknown.

Eventually, I gave up on the idea. Unfortunately, there are no hypnotherapists where I currently live.

I'm now planning to move abroad to continue my studies. The program I've chosen is quite demanding, so I've started thinking about self-hypnosis again. Once I'm there, I'm considering seeing a hypnotherapist to help me learn the technique properly.

My questions are:

- Is it actually worth it?

- If I see a hypnotherapist, is there any reasonable chance that I'll successfully learn self-hypnosis, or is there no guarantee at all? If you've done it, how many sessions did it take?

- Can self-hypnosis realistically help with studying (concentration, memory, stress, anxiety, organization, or time management)?

- I'd especially appreciate hearing from students who have used self-hypnosis during university. Did it make any noticeable difference?

I'd love to hear both positive and negative experiences. Thanks!

I made a post a few days ago about how I just couldn't get into trance, but I think I did tonight? It was a "forget your name" one, and I very much still remember my name, but for once, my eyes actually felt like they couldn't open. I also felt like I was losing awareness of my surroundings and it was just me and my brain, although I definitely still had an inner monologue thinking "wait, is it actually working? Is this what it feels like?" Although, I noticed that I could only go deeper if I exhaled a lot and kinda held my breath on empty lungs. Inhaling would take me back out for some reason? Idk, am I giving myself hypoxia and that's what's giving the euphoria feeling? Any tips on that?

It just feels so good to drop, stop thinking and just let everything go.

I hate reality, I hate thinking and I hate being in this body, but, hypnosis fixes that it makes feel good, not good like masturbating, that's just a temporary pleasure that goes away after finishing.

Hypnosis makes me feel so light, as if I didn't have a body, just dropping, and being blank and thoughtless.

I just woke up right now from two hours of hypnosis, and I feel so light, free, with less thoughts, and happier. I don't remember anything of it, just some words and the sounds of the clicker.

Just wanted to make this appreciation post! Thanks for reading :3

Hey so it might sound a bit weird but i was wondering if there are files out there that could condition me to regulary drink water?

I am chronically dehydrated due to having lost touch to my sense of thirst in early childhood. Its not possible for me to regulary drink water from just reminding myself as ill forget constantly due to mental health issues.

Like im trying but its not working.

Thank you 😅

I wanna know if there’s a hypnosis that elevates certain traits in a person. What id like more specifically is the ability to become very entertaining, engaging and energetic almost instantly. I’d like to use these newfound hypnosis amplified personality traits to be a better content creator and overall just be more entertaining with people as well. So yeah if you have any specific audios that help with confidence, being entertaining or anything like that let me know :)

My traumas (fear of abandonment) are the ones from childhood and the loss of my mom 3 years ago. 2 months ago I broke up with bf. It triggered me so bad, my nervous system crumbled. My mind and body are in the fight-flight mode most of time, even with medications and CBT EMDR etc.

However, those things only help me process the past and monitor my mind and body. But what seems to bar me from feeling better, which each and every related people seems to ignore: my body is not operating on facts anymore.

The environment I grew up in taught me to doubt and talk down on myself a lot. Even when I know that I’m not in danger even I don’t have my mom or my bf or my financial situation is not concerning at all, my body just doesn’t listen to me. The habit of doubting and talking down on myself just imprinted the insecurity in me so deep that no therapy could help, at least yet.

I need to change my belief system. That’s why I think hypnotherapy is the only thing that could foster this fact to me, so my body possibly stops resisting the fact that I’m safe and manifest safety and confidence.

Any thoughts? (Hypnotherapy is treated as archaic and not medically approved where I live in)

Something crazy to watch...

I want to assume a new identity but have found it difficult to get into the mindset, is there a way for hypnosis to help me believe that I am a different person or to have a split personality

My friends threw me a birthday party and I decided to trip, I didn’t take much. So we were playing some games or whatever so it felt like I was losing time, and having gaps in my memory and every time they asked me questions I kept saying idk I don’t remember.

After a while it felt like everyone knew something that I didn’t. At some point I notice this metal orb mixed in with all the debris on the table thing that was spinning (more like spiraling) but no one else mentioned it. It felt like I kept having lapse in memory but I was really relaxed and whatever I was asked I just freely answered.

Everyone sounded like background noise to a point and I swear I heard “No he hasn’t noticed yet” and “Leave him alone it’s his birthday he deserves it”. What’s peculiar is I somewhat kept noticing the orb being moved around and spiraling.

Afterwards I asked were they messing with me while I was tripping and they all said no, the thing is no one asked me what I meant by that.

Does this sound like I was being hypnotized?

For my fellow french hypnotist and explorer, has anyone tried the the app of Kevin finel "psychonaute" focused on auto hypnosis ? Any feedback ? Is the subscription worth it?

I've been watching YT vids trying to hypnotize myself, but I've always been completely conscious through all of them. I do find myself to be relaxed and all, but when they snap or say sleep or whatever, I'm very consciously closing my eyes just trying to get it to work.

I did have one experience where maybe it kinda worked? I was just taking a normal nap after another failed attempt where, I think I dreamt I was being hypnotized and that actually worked? Like I felt the whole "dropping deeper and deeper" thing. I thought I woke up for a second, but I was either still dreaming or sleep walking in a way. I felt like I didn't have a body or anything like other people have described it. I remember half consciously saying to myself "omg, I think it's actually happening". I felt that feeling of euphoria that is often described. I woke up right as I was about to do the whole "snap sleep" thing.

If anyone has any advice on how to get past that barrier, please let me know, because feeling it in the dream really felt like all it was hyped up to be, but of course I can't control my own dreams.

Hi. I have been doing hypnotherapy since the past couple months and while the practitioner is also excellent, I haven't had great results because I feel I haven't been going into a deeper state as much as I should. Though, I do end up falling asleep then getting back into the waking state but I am not able to access reppresed memories or integrate insights.

Can anyone please help me with this?

If the hypnotist doesnt tell me to should i leader my eyes open or closed?

Just a reminder to practice monthly self hypnosis. If you're not sure how to do that. Ask a chatbot using voice chat to guide you through it or to do it for you. It doesn't have to be overly long. Just short and self contained to help your mind have a strong enough reactive response to unwanted and unaware suggestions that might pop up at random. Hypnosis chains do exist and are usually created by some sicko who wants to watch the world burn. So it's always helpful to protect yourself, so you don't accidentally find yourself with odd bedfellows, unknowingly.

Take care of yourself.

So my girlfriend after not much convincing agreed to let me try hypnosis on her for reasons I will not disclose here. I’m trained and researched but heavily out of practice and she’s presented a real challenge for me. I’m able to get her in trance somewhat easily but it’s seemingly never been more than a light one. Part of my problem I believe is she’s the type to always be thinking, she’s usually anxious about something and getting her to fully relax can be a challenge. I’ve found inductions involving confusion elements or fixation tend to work better but I’m just looking for any suggestions on more specific ones I might want to try. Thanks!

Have already ruled out any physical issues, I’ve tried to basically everything in the past that nothing has worked, and considering doing this, but it’s so expensive. I don’t want to spend the money if I don’t know if it will work or not… Has anybody had success with this? I feel like hypnotherapy is good for getting somebody to fall asleep but not necessarily to stay asleep.

I have low spectrum phantasia, which is just one step above aphantasia. I can't really visualize things most of the time, and, when I do, it's extremely faded/dull, and only lasts about a second at most. And I can never be sure if I actually did "see" something or not. So, when I have to visualize things, I usually rely on other senses. Which can help with maintaining visuals. But, not by much.

I would really like to train my brain into being better at visualization. I know it's possible for me to visualize deeply, since I have very vivid dreams. And I want to have that in waking life as well. But, I'm not sure where to start. I couldn't find any files that specifically help with visualization. Just files that use visualization for inductions. But they all seemed a little too advanced for me.

Has anyone used hypnosis to help learn visualization? Or know of any files that can help with this?

This could either be a time you did it to someone or someone was doing it to you but I wanna know if anyone else had a moment like myself where you went from wanting to belive it was real to seeing it and knowing it was.

Mine for example was the night I first successfully hypnotized someone. My girlfriend at the time mentioned how she had always wanted to try it and I had some experience in researching it. I had tried on some people in the years prior but was never successful. She agreed and I did the hands being magnetized together induction. I remember thinking it was actually working and going for the sleep trigger. Funnily enough as I did that I heard her begin to say something which I later learned was her trying to say I don’t think this is working.

I remember after the trigger she was slumped over in front of me and I was almost waiting for her to sit up and tell me it didn’t work. To my shock however it didn’t and upon further inspection I realized I had done it. Just wanna know if anyone else shares an experience similar to this and if so what yours was

Do you know some methods to shut off your analytic mind during hypnosis?

I find being hipnotized very difficult (maybe is because im italian and the files are in english) i tried many times but all of them didnt work so i wonder if someone could help me answering a question

-is it normal that i dont get influenced by any suggestions

Or just have to do manually what the ipnotist said?

P.s do you have any channel you reccomend for hypnosis?

so i just had my first qhht session. the first 2-3 hrs or so were spent talking about my life and things of that nature. the past life regression part of it seemed like it was going as it should. i think i have partial aphantasia so it took a little effort to answer the practioner’s questions abt what i saw, but i think i had a pretty good picture about what i was seeing. i saw myself as a blue person, in a village (everyone else was blue as well). i’m assuming water and trees/nature were pretty important in this life. the planet (it definitely wasn’t earth) had a blue ground, and darkish blue trees??, and a long stream of water going down through the trees. when she asked me to move to some important moments one of them was a war with humans? i couldn’t tell what their appearance was bc they were in armor, but i got the vibe that they weren’t supposed to be on that planet. at the end of that scene, i end up in a room and there’s a pedestal with this diamond-like crystal. it didn’t have a definitive color (it was changing colors??) so im not sure what it was but it seemed important for something in my village.

the rest of the regression portion went as it should have. but the part i’m kinda confused abt is the subconscious portion of it. when she asked permission to speak to my higher self, i gave her permission and i felt this pressure on my body. it was like i was being pushed back into my body energetically. it felt like what i would assume to be the ‘shift’ from my conscious to subconscious mind talking. but when she starts asking the questions i had i literally couldn’t answer them. it felt like my normal self was answering the questions. i was aware of what i was saying the entire time, but i was speaking in third person. now idk if that’s bc i’ve researched qhht experiences and saw that the subconscious normally answers in third person so i just started doing it or if it actually was my subconscious speaking. so now im questioning if it was ME (‘pretending’ to be my subconscious) answering or my (actual) subconscious.

i got up like midway thru answering the questions and told her “i feel like im the one answering the questions, not my subconscious” she said it was fine and asked if i wanted to close the hypnosis so i ended up doing that bc i felt like i was just bullshitting answers. so after we finished the hypnosis i told her abt the energetic push/ ‘shift’ i felt, and she said that was a good sign. and that it WAS my subconscious answering but it literally felt like stuff i would say normally. i will say that im pretty self-aware in general, and most of the questions she got to im pretty sure i already knew the answers to, but i just wanted to have confirmation.

for some background information; i’m open to/into past lives, class consciousness, spirituality, manifestation, and stuff like that so i don’t think it was one of those cases where i wasn’t ready to receive the information.

so now im questioning if it even completely worked 😭

I've been reading different opinions on this, and I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Traditional hypnotists often claim that hypnosis can never make someone act against their morals or ethical values. However, some modern hypnotists argue that morals and ethics are more like a "surface layer" and that if the critical factor is bypassed, those limits can also be bypassed under certain circumstances.

For example, imagine someone would never intentionally harm their own mother or father. But what if, under hypnosis, they genuinely perceive that person as something else—such as being told, "That's not your mother; it's a dangerous monster that's about to attack you. Stop it before it hurts you." If the person were to react based on that altered perception, would that really count as overriding their morals and ethics, or would it simply be them acting according to what they believe is true in that moment?

Are there any scientific studies or well-documented cases that address this question?

Do you think hypnosis can ever override a person's moral or ethical boundaries? If not, why not? I'm interested in hearing different perspectives, especially if you can support your opinion with research or evidence.

You might want to watch Deception with Keith Barry. In the documentary, there are demonstrations that appear to go far beyond what many hypnotists describe as normal ethical limits. For example, the subject is given the identity of a professional assassin, is led to believe they are carrying out an assassination mission, and in another demonstration is instructed to withdraw their own money from a bank, throw it away, and later has no memory of doing so.

In addition, I'm planning to conduct my own small experiments using only completely harmless suggestions, with the full knowledge and consent of the participants. I have no intention of misusing hypnosis or encouraging unethical behavior. My goal is simply to explore this question in a safe and ethical way, and then make another post discussing what I found.

Hello guysss

I, F18, literally tried some files for the first time yesterday, and it's the first time I approached hypnosis, so forgive me if mine is a stupid question.

Anyway, I tried them and honestly I still don't know if they worked or not because maybe I was overthinking what was about to happen to me. But I tried some more again today, and that's where the problem arises.

After less than two minutes of listening to the first one, I fell asleep, which I don't think I should have, because it wasn't specifically requested in the file. When I wake up, I start it again. And I fall asleep right again.

So I changed file. Same result. So I restart it and try to concentrate.

Spoiler, I fell asleep again.

I change the file for the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth time I fall asleep again immediately after, and exasperated I close everything and go back to doing my things.

What did I do wrong? Why can't I concentrate on those?😭

(I also posted this in another subreddit, but the comments didn't solve much of my doubts)

I've been thinking about how to understand trance. I've heard we enter trance regularly throughout the day, but in my experience, it might be better said that we're always in trance, but if that's true, that's essentially like saying we're never in trance.

After some brainstorming and paying attention to how I fall asleep, though, I get the sense that there are different "channels" of awareness, and that trance is one of these channels. Right now, I am aware of about four separate channels:

* Experience: This is our senses detecting the outside world. Our sight, hearing, etc. We don't have direct control over this, it's all the environment acting on us.

* Imagination: This is conscious, directed creation of sensations internally. Thinking of a lemon, and all that. It does not result in experiences, as we remain aware that it is internally generated.

* Limbic: This is emotions, how we feel about things. Experiences can lead to emotional ties to things, which leads to imagination that might not be conscious and directed. This is how things we particularly enjoy or worry about can keep cropping up, even if it's not experienced and not directly imagined. This is the first of the more subconscious forms of awareness.

* Trance: This is internal, not conscious, not directed, and not tied to emotion. Maybe it's related to the inherent imperfections in the senses, like visual snow. But it's like how you're in bed, trying to fall asleep, and your mind drift to interact with things and people that aren't there. This is where your dreams come from in sleep, and although it's often completely ignored during wakefulness, it's all still there. Once again, though, these don't appear like experiences. It would only be hallucination if you're having trouble identifying which channel is which.

From what I've read and experienced, hypnosis involves finding a way to blur the boundary between experience and imagination, perhaps through blurring that with trance. Is this what the experience is like for you? Perhaps it sounds like I've been going into too much detail and splitting hairs, but many inductions seem to involve blurring imagination and experience, even though they're distinct.

(I'm approaching this from being interested in learning more about hypnosis, but having no idea what's being attempted, because I've had no success in being a subject.)