Miachu:
So how would this all work? I know nothing about hypnotism lol
Research into how hypnosis works neurologically is generally inconclusive; I've set out my take on this below.
Have you ever walked or driven a very familiar route, got to your destination but not really remembered each turn you took to get there? "Lost yourself" in a good book or film? Been "in the zone" doing a familiar, repetitive activity (martial arts drills/yoga/running for me) to the point where you don't really concentrate on what's going on around you? Meditated?
That state of mind is comparable to hypnosis. The difference being with hypnosis, someone is talking to help you achieve that state, and their voice goes with you when you get there (comparable to guided meditation). With inconclusive research, a common model to describe it is: in that state of mind, your conscious mind can switch off and your subconscious takes over.
In this model, the subconscious mind is said to differ from the conscious in a few crucial ways:
- it has a much more vivid imagination, comparable to what many of us experienced as children where stories came to life, or make-believe games felt real. Tell your conscious mind that you are a beautiful princess locked up in a tower, it will apply rational thought and reject that idea, because you are a regular person sat reading an FF forum. Tell your subconscious the same thing, and it will go along with it much more willingly
- it reacts to suggestions based on gut feel, rather than assessing rationally. Hypnosis cannot force anyone to do something they don't want to do. But it can make you think something about which you have no opinion/gut feel is a good thing to do
- outside of hypnosis, it controls things you do mindlessly, without thinking about them. The theory being that things a hypnotist suggests during hypnosis bypass the rational filters of the conscious mind and are either accepted or rejected by the subconscious. The subconscious then acts on them, in or out of hypnosis
Scripts would be destined at people wanting to hypnotise others. Three basic parts - induction (entering hypnosis), suggestion, end (coming out of hypnosis). Suggestion focusing either on imagining certain scenarios, or recommending certain actions post-hypnosis.
For me, I am interested to hear about how they are used. I've kinda lost ot interest in hypnotising others myself. It's not essential, but for me to enjoy it, it takes a significant rapport with people that I'm not especially interested in building at the mo. But I would be interested to hear how others are finding them