Our Philosophy

Welcome aboard, fellow Hypnonaut!

Come explore the vast and boundless space of erotic hypnosis with us! Join us weekly as we venture into the abyss, traversing the galaxy and covering everything from hypnosis 101 and the basics, consent and negotiation, to advanced erotic hypnosis topics, including, of course, how to hypnotize people for fun, for sexy times, and for kink.

We’re working to put together an explorer’s guide, a hypnonaut handbook. We’ve started outlining our thoughts and passing them on to a small group of fellow travelers to refine our ideas. This blog is the product of the feedback we’ve received from them. We invite you along on this journey with us; you can just read along  for fun, or you can find one or several enthusiastically consenting partners and join our experiments. You can share your ideas and experiences, try out our exercises, and let us know your thoughts here or on twitter. 

Our goal is to get you started, debrief our own observations (for science!), and ultimately, to pass on the idea that the only limit to the erotic hypnosis universe is your own imagination. 

So! Is this for you? Find out as we lay out our philosophy:

Intuition and beauty over dogma

Hypnosis is an art form, a give and take. It’s flowy and there’s endless room for exploration. We want to see you traverse that space in the relationships that you build with your play partners, treating it like a dance in which both partners are equally important.  Only through this back and forth, giving and receiving, observing and leading, can the fundamental intimacy of our scenes  be forged. 

You’re doing it right

As long as you’re doing it consensually, you’re doing it right. There’s no wrong way to be a hypnotist. Intimacy and fun are the only goals. There’s no wrong way to be a hypnotee, only experience in surrendering to trance. Your limit is your intuition; if you can feel it, you can do it. Our goal is not to make you into copies of us but rather to help you to become better mind explorers than we are, whether you're a tist, a tee, or a switch. 

Don’t follow, make-believe it up

You’ll learn the transmission of flow instead of memorizing steps or scripted inductions. We want to teach you how to cook, not just how to follow recipes. In hypnosis, the whole universe is always left to invent, every invention is an opportunity to discover more.

Anyone can be a hypnonaut

How hypnosis is usually taught is directly derivative of clinical hypnosis and as a result can be stilted, and formulaic. This makes the barrier for entry feel very high and creates an intimidating atmosphere that discourages a lot of people from giving hypnosis a try.  Further, the arbitrary knowledge that is taught is often used as a gatekeeping mechanism in the erotic hypnosis community, where someone’s familiarity with made-up technical-sounding vocabulary (“transderivational search”, anyone?) is sometimes seen as a proxy to their hypnotic skills. We believe, on the contrary, that what we know pales in comparison to what is yet to be discovered. If you’re curious about hypnosis, you’re already one of us explorers.

Facts exist (but they might be difficult to prove)

One of our top priorities is to make it clear when we are stating a scientific fact and when we are giving a somewhat educated guess. In reality, people are certain of next to nothing about hypnosis, regardless of certification or clinical degree. But the community as a whole has tested a lot of things and came up with its own diverse set of theories and anecdotal evidence. The erotic hypnosis scene in particular is full of extremely creative people that made up a lot of fun things to try. We will strive to credit them for what we teach when possible.

Context should be explained

Not only will we always strive to explain where we are coming from, how we arrived at our opinions, and why we believe what we do, but we’ll also aim to acknowledge our biases whenever relevant to the conversation. We are all the sum of our experiences, and we plan to include relevant perspectives and insights that helped to shape the opinions we have today. 

We will also aim to explain the risk particular activities might hold. Risk exists on a continuum and mileage may vary.  We will do our best to explain why we think some activities carry a higher risk than others and discuss relevant consent and negotiation ideas to minimize and mitigate risk. 

Inclusivity 

With hypnosis, it’s much easier to expand beyond the confines of our current physical forms and current states. Playing around with gender identity, receiving pain and pleasure without physical contact, altering sensory input are all things that can be done with hypnosis and don’t require that the body and mind match the concepts being explored in a given scene. 

So, we believe the breadth of hypnosis lends itself well to inclusivity and we will always seek to be as inclusive in our ideas as we can. Neurodivergence, disability, race, sexuality, and gender are all marginalized subsets we aim to be deliberately inclusive/accommodating of as we compile the material we’ve learned along the way. We actively will seek specific feedback on this and encourage anyone with ideas to be better at this to share them. 

We’re all explorers. Join us, Hypnonaut!

Above all, we will empower you to do your own exploration, only limited by your creativity, and to find for yourself what works and what's hot, outside of the limits of what others have decided before you.