Discussing a response to his book on using hyperempiria/hypnosis for consensual adult sexual imagery (available here), Dr. Don Gibbons wrote:
Voila, mes amis. We have all the mastery we need right now to knock the socks off of Hollywood! We can not only guide our participants through an experience of being Harry Potter jousting on his broom, or Indiana Jones in pursuit of hidden treasure, or Juliet on her balcony, or anything else the participant would care to experience, we can also tell them how it will feel, how it will be remembered, and how much they will enjoy (and want to repeat) this kind of experience. And, just as a little child needs to be cautioned, as I was at that age, "It’s only a movie," so that they don’t become too frightened or otherwise emotionally involved, we can caution our participants in the same way so that the experience does not affect their personality in the same way that a therapeutically-motivated one might.
Dr. Gibbons is the author of a number of books and papers on hyperempiria . . . see an earlier post here and his webpages here.
We’re on a similar wavelength.
This is in part the sort of thing I will be approaching this coming weekend in my Tranceplay workshop here in Taipei. 🙂
Take a look at the following discussions related to using hypnosis to intensify experience related to literature, games, and roleplay . . . an hypnotic holosuite a la Star Trek, if you will.
Do keep in mind that while some of this may not jibe with one’s own ideas about appropriate, the basic concepts are worth consideration.
I have used the "vicarious memory machine" technique on a number ot times to increase a subject’s experience of films, photographs, or prose fiction. For those familiar with my MP3s, the DTM Memory Machine piece at http://www.briandavidphillips.com is based in part on this process, albeit my personal experience has been more successful with face-to-face sessions to establish the trigger into the experience (although a few folks have reported good results with the audio recording alone . . . I would be interested in feedback from those who use it). The basic technique is to place a person into somnambulism (high imaginative involvement within a trance-based experience) and to create an affective link to the experience (for instance "the images you are watching are your own memories of an experience, or you are experiencing everything and feel everything the character is feeling" and the like), that link carries visual, auditory and sensory hallucinations including everything from kinesthetic hallucinations of feeling movement or touch and the like to taste and smell . . . full on hypersensory experience. While I do NOT reccommend doing this with realistic war movies or the like, it has been done with a number of video games (for someone like me, our television is a home theatre setup with surround sound DTS and dolby and the works with a large projection screen so when you’re playing a PS2 or X-Box game with an hypnotic hyperaffective link to the experience, it can be very very powerful . . . particularly when using First Person Shooter type games . . . ALWAYS have rider suggestions to remind the person THIS IS ONLY A GAME and that if at any time the experience becomes too intense they can dissociate from it easily and quickly . . . I also strongly suggest giving rider suggestions of SAFETY, COMFORT, AND PLEASANT ENJOYMENT of this UNUSUAL AND FASCINATING experience. You really don’t want to repeat David Brager’s initial mistake of telling someone he sees a Balrog with no safety suggestions or you might end up having to look for them under every bush in the neighborhood, not to mention the laundrey bill from cleaning their shorts.
ALWAYS USE SAFEWORDS AND AUTOMATIC SWITCHES TO A DETACHED EXPERIENCE OR SANCTUARY FEELING, regardless of whether or not YOU feel there would be anything untoward in the images, the participant needs to be able to stop it at any time just like Star Trek characters saying "Computer, End Program." Engage safeties and give full control of the experience levels to the players, so to speak.
Seriously, rider saftety and comfort suggestions are very important and NEVER push a person’s confort levels. So, while it might be very interesting to you to have your significant other experience a lesbian threesome via this technique by watching the newest Lesbian Leather Fetish Bad Girls in Bondage video in state, if she has no bicurious interests she’s going to be pretty pissed at you for throwing the tape in. Likewise, if you’re uncomfortable with your spouse having virtual hypnotic sex with Ron Jeremy or some other porn stud then either suggest that the other performer in the video is you for the sake of the experience or DON"T use that sort of material and stick to interesting hypnotic affective experiences of the latest National Geographic or IMAX nature vista film. Yes, for the adult material, one really DOES feel a physical sensation . . . for all aspects of the material, what the mind sees it then creates full sensory effects to coincide. This is also true for other types of material, of course.
However, once you’ve got the basics down, the method is quite easy and works very well with many people. Not everyone experiences full-on hypnotic hallucinations the first go, but most will experience heightened pleasure and imaginative involvement with the material that makes it worthwhile to them.
My process is usually to start with the Elman hypnotic induction, that’s often my default start for most trancework and then to test for imaginative involvement and critical factor bypass through an eyes-open number amnesia suggestion. "When I count to three, your eyes open and you have forgotten the number six." When I’ve established that they have indeed lost the number six, pop ’em back down (really, just eyes closed as they’re already hooked in and having the eyes open or closed does not change that level imaginative involvement, albeit since most folks expect to close their eyes, I let them). Then I run through a series of tests and demonstrations geared toward increasing imaginative involvement and hypnotic response to suggestions specifically to elicit sensory attachment and hallucinations of various types. Sight, sound, smell, taste, the whole shebang. The baby purple fairie dragon resting on the palm of your hand is a good one in that it is cute and unusual and you can attach different senses to the illusion and build response (yes, the old stage hypnosis "bird" gag is the inspiration . . . but I like purple and I like dragons . . . they lend a magickal quality to the experience I enjoy). Once I’ve done these setups and built sensory response, I will do my suggestions for the vicarious experiential memory machine which is really the visually-oriented deep trance identification experience . . . or, if you want a science fiction metaphor . . . a hypnotic holosuite . . . we don’t have full-on holographic technology a la Star Trek yet but we can recreate the experience in our minds via trancework and that’s pretty gosh-darned kool.
BTW, this isn’t just appropriate to the folks looking for hyper/hypno-sex (which is what a whole bunch of folks are reading this to get to) or to enhance their gaming or cinematic or literary experiences. It can have therapeutic or intuitive uses as well. It can be used as a form of Deep Trance Identification via visual stimulus. When working with a young man who is a competitive swimmer, I used a similar method where he brought in videos of worldclass swimmers performing the strokes he wished to work on. Using the hypnotic processes and triggers I taught him, he was able to enter state and watch the videos very intensely while experiencing muscle movements (although his body never moved) and imaginative involvement. We then did a collapse burst process whereby I counted backwards from twenty to one and with each number his imagination ran the entire series of videos in his head and he felt the entire series of muscle movements automatically with each number so it happened very quickly in his imagination but it was complete . . . when I reached the number one, his imagination took the suggestion that the entire set would burst or explode into his subconscious as a natural automatic system when actually swimming. Using the process, he was able to markedly improve his performance in competitive swimming events (albeit, he still had to practice). He now has a habit of entering state whenever he enters the pool and just enjoying the feeling of letting himself automatically complete every move and he now swims very naturally and in a far superior fashion to previous performance.
I do believe that the imaginative involvement is easier to achieve for this sort of eyes-open hypnotic experience with videos or films or video games than with photographs or prose but they are still useful. For the young man who wished to improve his Tai-Chi skill levels used, I initially used a book with a photoset of a master doing all the moves and ran the process with the subject so that as he looked at every photograph in turn he could feel the process and that each move would simply occur naturally as part of an automatic response system. He could really feel his muscles reacting to the suggestion. In his class the next week, his master remarked that he had progressed in a single week well past anyone he’d seen before. To the teacher, it was suddenly as if he were performing at a level of someone who had been practicing for five years when just a couple weeks before he had been progressing at a very slow rate and was considered a rank beginner, and a slowly progressing one at that.
While this demonstrated to me that photographic sets can be used, and I’ve used similar approaches for other skills, when the young man moved to videos, his progress was even further. I do use a single photograph approach with this process with Tarot decks for folks wishing to explore them for intuitive imagery and the like but the endgame and goals are different so the process is more freeform and visionary.
For an initial experience with videogames and this sort of hypnotic conditioning, I’d suggest snowboarding or the like or say something like Crimson Skies on the X-Box without an opponent (then let the person experience virtual flying, assuming there are no phobic issues involved). I would not jump into a game of Halo 2 in Full-On Violence and Blood Bath Nightmare Extreme difficulty mode in the first go.
Of course, one can achieve a great deal of the same results without the difficulty of eyes-open hypnotic affective processes simply by using somnambulism and eyes-closed hypnosis with imagery . . . in much the same way many of the guided imagery scripts I’ve written and published in a number of forums are structured. However, I also like to play with new approaches and effects and find this to be one worth a go.
I would be VERY interested to learn how others approach this same sort of concept. I know there are a number of folks here with similar interests . . . so, it might make for an interesting discussion for all of us . . . even though our specific takes on the process or goals of the experience may be different.
Wow, this has been a looooong post. I’ve pretty much spilled most of my secrets here so folks with the background should be able to find the basic concepts enough to get started on their own. If there’s enough interest, perhaps I’ll finally run that hypnotic roleplaying game seminar a few folks have been asking for.
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