Elements of Bimbofication by sleepingirl
Bimbofication is one of the most popular tropes in hypnokink content, and for good reason -- it has an established “canon” that is easy and appealing to play with for many people....
2025-03-14 17:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I'm really exited to share this new event/project! A bit back, I was thinking a lot about how I knew many of us in hypnokink were spiritual in some way, but the intersection of those two things is something we don't really discuss at ...
2025-03-06 16:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostAll Types of Utilization by sleepingirl
Language evolves within hobbies and subcultures, and especially with something like hypnosis that spans varying demographics. The word “utilization” gets thrown around us a lot, an...
2025-02-14 15:51:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Most of you know Charmed was last weekend and it's been a very long time since I've written a proper scene writeup, but this was a very special experience for me and I wanted to share it. Enjoy! Regular articles returning next wee...
2025-02-03 15:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a little motivational piece (for you and me!) as I gear up to teach "Analyzing Erickson" at Charmed. It's something I feel really passionately about, and I wanted to share it.
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2025-01-07 16:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostDistraction or Dreaming? An Exploration of Erickson by sleepingirl
Hypnosis is young -- at least, the western discipline that we call by that name. Despite only being in the public consciousness for a couple of centuries, it...
2024-12-13 17:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again! :)
"Distraction or Dreaming?": I'm rereading Erickson's Hypnotic Realities and really struck by just how often Erickson expects his patients to be daydreaming in trance. This is in contrast to our moder...
2024-12-03 18:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Happy December! And right on time — my magazine is out and available right now!
This was a labor of love and a challenge to finish i...
Hi everyone! I’m hard at work on a big Hypnovember project -- a magazine with tons of my writing, art, and other stuff! Here’s a new article that I wrote for it :) My goal is to have it finished by the end of November, so I’ll keep you u...
2024-11-19 16:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostGuided, Erickson-ish(?) Scenarios by sleepingirl
This may be a “me” thing, but nowadays I always have a tiny knee-jerk reaction when someone references Ericksonian storytelling. “There’s so much more to Er...
2024-10-11 19:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. I can't thank you enough for the support and well wishes over the past chunk of time that I've been unwell. It meant so much to me and especially I think I saw some community members here recommending my Patreon?...
2024-10-01 19:03:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi all. My health is really not great, BUT there are times when I'm lucid enough to write, so I want to write!
I probably can't as easily do my 5k-word monster essays, but I should be able to do more concise articles.
So, I was in the ER yesterday. I had sudden severe vertigo on Wednesday accompanied by heart palpitations and headache, and it was getting pretty scary.
Good news: my heart is fine, they sent me home.
Bad news: we don't really know w...
Hi everyone! 1) I'm happy to say that my chronic migraines are lessening, and we'll get an article going for next week!
2) I'm finally doing an update to the benefactor tier that I've wanted to do for a long time! + More tier updates???
<... 2024-07-16 16:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostSome Stuff About (Limiting) Beliefs and Evaluation by sleepingirl
People are always making judgments and evaluations about what is happening to them and around them, and those evaluations are based on their beliefs. We intui...
2024-06-28 20:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
For Hypnokink Zine Week 2! PDF on Itch or on this post.
2024-06-21 19:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi y'all! Two quick things:
NASTY migraine made me lose the vast majority of the day today -- the "Beliefs" article is VERY close to done and I'll finish it up early next week!
You won't be empty-handed though -- in a ...
2024-06-21 19:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory systems are complex and have a TON of overlap -- an experience/suggestion is never just drawing on one sense. Kinesthetic stuff, however, is the most distinct among them in that it is insanely b...
2024-06-03 14:40:06 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the first things we teach hypnotists -- and subjects who are new to hypnosis -- is that hypnosis is not an external, unnatural force that acts upon someone. But pinning down exactly what it is or how to explain it can be challenging.
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2024-05-31 16:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi y'all! I meant to set up a poll last Friday but I was rushing around and EXHAUSTED and the day slipped away from me.
This week I'm going to write a smaller/candid article about the concept of "hypnosis is utilizing the mind to affect its...
Effective Fixation/Focus
Obtaining focus and fixation is one of the most universal ingredients in hypnosis. Depending on how you define trance, we might say that fixation is even inherent or necessary. But if we try to open ...
2024-05-10 18:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory systems are complex and have a TON of overlap -- an experience/suggestion is never just drawing on one sense. Kinesthetic stuff, however, is the most distinct among them in that it is insanely b...
2024-05-03 15:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Female Gaze” Hypnosis by sleepingirl
The terms “male gaze” and “female gaze” are not my favorite. They are gendered, generalized, heteronormative, binary. However, they attempt to describe something very importa...
2024-04-12 18:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostWE'RE BACK TO USUAL ARTICLES BAYBEEEE
"Feminine Gaze Hypnosis": If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen I had a thought about something I feel is missing in the discussion of how to do hypnosis. I don't mean "hypnos...
2024-04-05 14:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post(Hi everyone! I hope you've enjoyed these more free-form articles over the last few weeks -- I'm quite a bit more recovered now from COVID and family stuff, and I should be getting back to regular articles very soon :) Thanks for your well-wis...
2024-03-21 16:28:33 +0000 UTC View PostModels, Suggestions, Hypnosis (Article) by sleepingirl
Unfortunately, in order to teach something, you have to define it.
Hypnosis operates very heavily based on HOW you define it. By that I mean it’s partially place...
2024-02-27 17:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostOn top of still not being fully recovered from COVID (which is now kicking up some chronic health stuff), over the weekend, we had a death in the family.
My plan right now for here is to work on smaller posts as I am able -- instead of my u...
I am still definitely recovering from COVID (ugh), but I finally had enough energy and brain to do final edits on this essay I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It is long and covers a lot but I think it tells a cohesive story about...
2024-02-22 18:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostICYMI on Twitter I did not successfully dodge the covid in my household and I'm sick and it sucks. Got a prescription for paxlovid so hopefully that helps but it'll probably take this week to recover. Want to get back to writing ASAP, I'll let y'a...
2024-02-11 19:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post(My heat is finally back on and I was able to finish this in time :) I hope you enjoy it! I think there's a lot more to explore here and would love to do more in another essay.)
Inherent Intimate D/s by sleepingirl<...
2024-01-26 21:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post