On Hypnotic Writing (Article)

Content warning: This writing is explicitly and implicitly hypnotic. It contains suggestions about reading, writing, and learning, and experiencing trance in different vanillish ways. It is not explicitly sexual except in a possibly hypnofetishistic sense, and discusses a little bit about intimacy.

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I am endlessly grateful whenever someone tells me that I’m able to write about hypnosis and capture it when it seems so hard to grasp. It is the highest praise, for me -- hypnosis is so unique in a way we are all familiar with, but struggle to describe. It is a nominalization, a noun that describes something that is not an objective thing, not something we can hold in our hands. That I can come close and evoke that sense is something I am so proud of.

So I am grateful, yes.

But not really surprised.

Because I am intimately aware of how to use language to get someone’s brain where I want it to go. I am a hypnotist, and I like to think of myself as being a fairly effective one.

This is a hypnotic writing about the relationship between hypnosis and writing.