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Elements of Bimbofication by sleepingirl

Elements of Bimbofication by sleepingirl

Bimbofication is one of the most popular tropes in hypnokink content, and for good reason -- it has an established “canon” that i...

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PSYCHOSPIRITUAL: A Hypnokink/Spirituality Essay Jam is coming and you're invited to write something!

Hi everyone! I'm really exited to share this new event/project! A bit back, I was thinking a lot about how I knew many of us in hypnokink were spiritual in some way, but the intersection of those t...

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All Types of Utilization

All Types of Utilization by sleepingirl

Language evolves within hobbies and subcultures, and especially with something like hypnosis that spans varying demographics. The word...

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Dolly in the Art Gallery: A Charmed 2025 Scene Log/Recap

Hi everyone! Most of you know Charmed was last weekend and it's been a very long time since I've written a proper scene writeup, but this was a very special experience for me and I wanted to sh...

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You are a Wizard, so Pour Over the Tomes

This is a little motivational piece (for you and me!) as I gear up to teach "Analyzing Erickson" at Charmed. It's something I feel really passionately about, and I wanted to share it.

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Distraction or Dreaming? An Exploration of Erickson

Distraction or Dreaming? An Exploration of Erickson by sleepingirl

Hypnosis is young -- at least, the western discipline that we call by that name. Despite only being in the ...

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Next Article Poll (Ends 12/5)!

It's that time again! :)

"Distraction or Dreaming?": I'm rereading Erickson's Hypnotic Realities and really struck by just how often Erickson expects his patients to be daydr...

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sleepingirl's BIG HYPNOVEMBER MAGAZINE is out now!

Hi everyone! Happy December! And right on time — my magazine is out and available right now!

 Th...

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Run Your Own Hypnosis Text Study!

Hi everyone! I’m hard at work on a big Hypnovember project -- a magazine with tons of my writing, art, and other stuff! Here’s a new article that I wrote for it :) My goal is to have it fin...

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Guided, Erickson-ish(?) Scenarios by sleepingirl

Guided, Erickson-ish(?) Scenarios by sleepingirl


This may be a “me” thing, but nowadays I always have a tiny knee-jerk reaction when someone references Erickso...

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I'm back and working hard :) Updates!

Hi everyone. I can't thank you enough for the support and well wishes over the past chunk of time that I've been unwell. It meant so much to me and especially I think I saw so...

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Suggest topics for mini-essays! + UPDATES

Hi all. My health is really not great, BUT there are times when I'm lucid enough to write, so I want to write!

I probably can't as easily do my 5k-word monster essays, but I should be able t...

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Updates (less cool)

So, I was in the ER yesterday. I had sudden severe vertigo on Wednesday accompanied by heart palpitations and headache, and it was getting pretty scary.

Good news: my heart is fine, they sen...

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Adding cool tier updates! + I need your input!! :)

Hi everyone! 1) I'm happy to say that my chronic migraines are lessening, and we'll get an article going for next week!

2) I'm finally doing an update to the benefactor tier that I've wanted ...

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Some Stuff About (Limiting) Beliefs and Evaluation

Some Stuff About (Limiting) Beliefs and Evaluation by sleepingirl

People are always making judgments and evaluations about what is happening to them and around them, and thos...

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KADOSH Zine

For Hypnokink Zine Week 2! PDF on Itch or on this post.

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Two updates!

Hi y'all! Two quick things:

  • NASTY migraine made me lose the vast majority of the day today -- the "Beliefs" article is VERY close to done and I'll finish it up early next week!

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Next Article Poll!

"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory systems are complex and have a TON of overlap -- an experience/suggestion is never just drawing on one sense. Kinesthetic stuff, however, is the...

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A System Affecting Itself (aka, What On Earth Do I Title This Essay)

One of the first things we teach hypnotists -- and subjects who are new to hypnosis -- is that hypnosis is not an external, unnatural force that acts upon someone. But pinning down exactly what it ...

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This week's article :)

Hi y'all! I meant to set up a poll last Friday but I was rushing around and EXHAUSTED and the day slipped away from me.

This week I'm going to write a smaller/candid article about the concep...

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Effective Fixation/Focus (Article)

Effective Fixation/Focus

Obtaining focus and fixation is one of the most universal ingredients in hypnosis. Depending on how you define trance, we might say that fixation is ...

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Next Article Poll :)

"What IS Kinesthetic?": Our sensory systems are complex and have a TON of overlap -- an experience/suggestion is never just drawing on one sense. Kinesthetic stuff, however, is the...

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"Female Gaze" Hypnosis

“Female Gaze” Hypnosis by sleepingirl

The terms “male gaze” and “female gaze” are not my favorite. They are gendered, generalized, heteronormative, binary. Howeve...

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Article poll :)

WE'RE BACK TO USUAL ARTICLES BAYBEEEE

"Feminine Gaze Hypnosis": If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen I had a thought about something I feel is missing in the disc...

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Brainwashing and Blankness

(Hi everyone! I hope you've enjoyed these more free-form articles over the last few weeks -- I'm quite a bit more recovered now from COVID and family stuff, and I should be getting back to regu...

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Models, Suggestions, Hypnosis (Article) by sleepingirl

Models, Suggestions, Hypnosis (Article) by sleepingirl

Unfortunately, in order to teach something, you have to define it.

Hypnosis operates very heavily based on HOW yo...

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Updates

On top of still not being fully recovered from COVID (which is now kicking up some chronic health stuff), over the weekend, we had a death in the family.

My plan right now for here is to wor...

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Milton Erickson and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar… (Article)

I am still definitely recovering from COVID (ugh), but I finally had enough energy and brain to do final edits on this essay I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It is long and covers...

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I have covid :(

ICYMI on Twitter I did not successfully dodge the covid in my household and I'm sick and it sucks. Got a prescription for paxlovid so hopefully that helps but it'll probably take this week to recov...

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Inherent, Intimate D/s

(My heat is finally back on and I was able to finish this in time :) I hope you enjoy it! I think there's a lot more to explore here and would love to do more in another essay.)

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