One interesting thing I’ve learned doing hypnosis is that trance depth, responsiveness and amnesia are not necessarily related. When I first started out, I assumed (as most hypnotists do) that trance linear – people in lighter trances would respond well to “easier” suggestion (like ‘your hands are stuck'), people in deeper trances could be made to do “harder” things, and the very deepest subjects would respond well to almost any suggestion, and never remember being hypnotized at all.
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@northeyes Any book recs for getting into hypnosis? I've been wanting to learn how to do it but don't know any practitioners in meatspace.
@northeyes That makes sense. I suppose a visit to the local library would be as good a start as any. At least I'd be more likely to avoid LLM generated garbage 😅 Ty for the insight.
@mauve Honestly, no. When I was in University (many centuries ago) I raided the psychology library and read about 100 books on the topic, but I couldn't tell you a title now suitable for a beginner. Hypnosis practice has changed a lot in the intervening years -- more streamlined with less bullshit. There's a lot of stuff on YouTube now, but I can't say I've vetted it. Most of my own skills building since uni has been lots of practice and occasional skills exchange with other hypnotists.