I was always very skeptical about hypnotism. It was always about dodgy tv shows and humiliating people by making them walk around like chickens or perhaps those people were actors faking it instead. If not that then it was about making you part with lots of money in order to give up smoking etc. I knew people who tried that but it never worked for them.
That all changed when I was in a room of people who were all hypnotised at once. It turned out I was very susceptible to it. I was listening to the suggestions thinking it’s something I could stop at any point so I wasn’t worried. I’d heard you can’t be forced to do something you don’t want to do which put my mind at rest, although that made me wonder about those chickens on TV. It was only when they told us we wouldn’t remember any of the things we’d been told to do in the last five or ten minutes. I thought that was ridiculous, of course I wouldn’t forget that. We had…we had…I can’t remember what we had done at all, I felt like I had cotton wool in my head! And that genuinely scared me.
That said I did look into having hypnotism instead of an anaesthetic when I went to the dentist. I react badly to anaesthetic so I’d do anything not to have a drastically swollen face and nausea. However, it just wasn’t to be, my dentist moved away and the new one wasn’t prepared to listen to me. In the end I learnt there was no need for anaesthetic for most fillings anyway.
As for erotic hypnotism, it’s not something I want to try to be honest. I think it can be quite dangerous and I wouldn’t want to give it a go with someone who isn’t trained or someone I didn’t trust. Whilst I trust my partner, he isn’t trained so I think we’ll give this one a miss.