Character description: "she weaponizes gentleness". Her gentle voice makes people feel comfortable and safe. Her gentle touch makes people feel calm and relaxed. Her gentle gaze makes people feel drowsy and dreamy. Her gentle command makes people feel enchanted and obedient.

My psych student friend wanted me to type out the notes for their class as they brainstormed them. "Now, I want you get comfortable and take a deep breath for me. Just relax and listen to my voice." My memory sort of stops after she said "sleep!" but she said later that the notes were perfect.

Your theater and psych major cousin wants you to help with her movie class: she wants to see if what was shown in the movies is possible in real life. Its only after you agree that you find out the movies are "Svengali", "The Hypnotic Eye" and "Get Out."

Still not up to full strength after a sinus thing last week, and I've got a gig to work tomorrow night, so I'm going to sit and watch a spiral and let a smooth female voice lull me into a deep trance for a while.

Laurie was a sleep-walker and a sleep-trancer. She'd wander the halls of the sorority house, and everyone meeting her would find themselves entranced by staring into her blank eyes as she softly talked about falling asleep. Several of her sorority sisters started 'meeting' her, deliberately.

Urgh Scratchy throat on Wednesday Runny nose and sneezing (and a two hour nap) on Thursday Sore throat and runny nose on Friday No wonder I don't want to get dressed today. Just glad my next work gig is next Wednesday, I may be back to full by then.

Amy, our GM, wanted to make our next D&D game feel more immersive, so she asked her friend Stella to hypnotize us to make spells seem more real. She didn't tell us guys that the game that night was to battle a circle of enchantresses and their succubus leader. It was all very "charming".

A friend of a friend wanted me to take some glamour pictures. That FoaF was a goth beauty in a scandolous Victorian gown. She wanted me to focus on head shots, and to be specially conscious of her eyes. She had this way of slowly closing and opening her eyes that was so magnetic. 1/

I suddenly decide to dress up and treat myself to dinner at a quiet, cozy, intimate restaurant tonight. When I walk in, I hear my name: when I turn, a lady swings a crystal before my eyes, and suddenly I remember that I'm there to be her compliant, attentive, generous date for the night.

I'm at my regular eye doctor appointment. The assistant tells me to follow her finger up, down, left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, "sleep!" The rest of the exam is blurry (no pun intended) but at least the pupil dilation eyedrops didn't sting as they usually did.

I want a friend to ask me to demonstrate a hypnotic induction. She wants me to induce a friend of theirs, using a "look into my eyes" induction. Except its a trap: I get lost looking into their hypnotized eyes, as my friend whispers soft suggestions of sleep and obedience into my hypnotized mind.

Update on The Collection: Thanks to a YT channel reposting all the old Doctor Who episodes, I now have all of the episodes with MC content starting with the Pertwee years, and only one missing from the Troughton era. That is 34 episodes, including all seven Sarah Jane episodes. 1/

I'd like to walk into an occult / metaphysical store, where soft music and incense drifts through the air. The owner tells me that my aura looks cloudy and offers to clear it for me. All I have to do is watch the crystal she's swinging before my eyes.

I'd love to attend a stage hypnosis show where the lovely lady hypnotist singles me out in the crowd and lures me on to the stage with her beguiling words and passes her hand before my eyes and ... I'm back in my seat and everyone's applauding and I'm blushing.

My schedule has been busy, and next weekend, too, but I am trance-starved so I am reserving an evening this week to do nothing but listen to / watch trance files. My biggest challenge is choosing what to listen to. I would like files with elements of interaction and post-hypnotic suggestions. 1/

variety.com/2026/film/gl... Not sure what the background here is, or maybe just another example of Hollywood mining the classics because they can't do anything original?

Getting hypnotized to be affected into finding any hypnosis in media no matter how unrealistic to be very hypnotic and being affected by it just as much as the characters. Spirals, swinging pocket watches, waving hands slowly and saying "You're getting verrrry sleeeeepy"Doesn't matter, you'll ping.

Not saying details, but I've had two deep trances recently, deep enough that I spent an hour under each time, with no awareness of time passage. First time for me, for that length. All I do remember was the hypnotist talking to me occassionally so I didn't fall asleep. 1/

After staying inside during the storm yesterday, I ventured out and cleared my driveway and sidewalks this afternoon. Buying the electric snowthrower a couple of years ago was my best investment in a long time. Mayne I'll splurge on dinner tonight to celebrate.

To quote the first issue of Loki, Agent of Asgard: Thor: "You perpetrated a huge slash across the Internet." Loki: "A hack. Although I have done the other, as well." My best is that Loki wrote some Steve/Tony slash fiction on AO3.

I am cataloging all of the RPG characters I created for my personal use over the past 40+ years, and I am not surprised at just how many sorceresses / enchantresses / similar I created. Current count is 24 out of 82, almost one third. Kinda looks like I had a *thing* for them.

I talked hypno shop with a local (who already knows some) who wants to learn *everything* hypno from me so I think I have an apprentice. I was also desperately wanting a trance or to trance someone afterward. Still do, just not as much now. Chill first, trance later.

I am going through all the RPG characters I've created over the years, and (surprise, surprise) there are a lot of MC characters. * a telepathic superheroine (and two alternate incarnations) * a Vampire stage magician and hypnotist * a Mage stage hypnotist who plays a vampire on stage 1/

A bit surprised that Marvel would release a figure for such a niche character like the Hypno Hustler, but, there it is. This may be something I spend some Christmas money on. I'll see if my favorite local comic store can order it. For The Collection, of course. #hypnohustler

I haven't been working on The Collection these past couple of weeks, because I was 'sick' (I got a pill stuck in my throat and hacked and coughed for hours, which really wore me out), attended a convention, enjoyed the last warm-ish days for biking, and worked on reviving my personal website.

Urgh. I burped while swallowing my meds this morning, and one got caught in my throat and has been irritating it ever since. I've been coughing so much, my teeth hurt, and I just stayed in and slept from late afternoon until late evening.

New Hypnosis in Media post: Current Status of The Collection https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/2041/current-status-of-the-collection/ A timely update on where The Collection stands, and what else needs to get done.

New Hypnosis in Media post: “The Hypnotizing Spy Affair” https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/2025/the-hypnotizing-spy-affair/ The Spy Decade The 1960's was the Decade of the Spy. The first James Bond novel, "Casino

www.imdb.com/list/ls09993... Just posting this list: found it some time ago, and have been mining it to expand my want list for The Collection ever since.

Updated Hypnosis in Media page: Wishlist https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/support/wishlist/

I've been making progress on updating and improving my Hypnosis in Media blog site, setting up the caching system, culling the plugins and themes, and deleting old pages and rewriting others. I hope to start blogging there next week. www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog

Updated Hypnosis in Media post: “Suicide Squad: Kill Arkhan Asylum” #4 https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/1879/suicide-squad-kill-arkhan-asylum-4/ Take one stone-cold killer, four criminal mind controllers, and add a comedy relief villai

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3862562)

New Hypnosis in Media post: They Came From Hyde Brothers! https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/1956/they-came-from-hyde-brothers/ In my defense, I was left unsupervised, which is always a problem when I walk into a book store.

bsky.app/profile/pulp... "In the twilight sleep of hypnotism. she became a panting, lust-craved wanton." In other words, just about every over early MC Stories entry.

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3286673)

New Hypnosis in Media post: “Spellbound” by Maria Tatar https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/45/spellbound-maria-tatar/

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3896010)

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When I put this book into the catalog of The Collection, I decided to write about it. As it turned out, I already did. www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/8/favor... This was one of my first blog posts, so its understandable that I more-or-less forgot it.

“Love and Passion Under Hypnosis” (1956) by Walter Hale, published by Playgirl. “Are Helpless Girls Betrayed By Hypnotists?” “Stranger Than Bridey Murphy” This 48 page maza­gine promis­es a lot but does not deliv­er. The enclosed arti­cles on hyp­no­sis are pret­ty gener­ic, the pho­tog­ra­phy…

I have not been maintaining my Hypnosis in Media blog, and its developed a serious system error. It can still show the blog posts, but parts of the dashboard (like the plugin list) crash and halt, and the Pages other than the front page error out almost immediately. Not sure how to proceed.

I am looking over the books and stuff I want to write about, and some will need more indepth research and writing than what I would do here, so I am faced with dusting off my old blog. My last sporadic entries (with one exception) were from 2021.

Hey, look what I found! I was going through a binder in the bookcase, and found the one "Give Me One Evening" ads with the female hypnotist. Granted, its not a very good image, and not the best source: its probably from a comic book from the 1960s.

"Love and Passion Under Hypnosis" from Playgirl Magazine, circa 1956-1957 It promises a lot but does not deliver. The enclosed articles on hypnosis and purported pictures of hypnotized women are both pretty generic, and the layout and production is low quality.

"The Two Ronnies Sketchbook" (1978) My thanks to WTTW (PBS Chicago channel 11), who would show Doctor Who on Sunday night, preceeded by three British comedy shows: Monty Python, Dave Allen, and The Two Ronnies, and my parents, who got cable TV so they could watch the Cubs play on WGN (channel 9).

Ed Fitch "Castle of Deception" (1983) Part of (and maybe the only one of) the Llewellyn Magical Fantasy Series, this is a pagan-intense medieval fantasy, with the central character being a witch-warrior tasked with cleansing evil from a mystical site. It wasn't easy, and therein lies the tale.

Dunninger "What's On Your Mind?" (1944) Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) was a prominent stage magician / mentalist / hypnotist, creator of the "Hypno-Glasses", movie consultant, and debunker of fraudlent mediums, so I originally thought this was a compilation of stage mentalism routines. I was wrong.

I have a pile of books beside or behind me that I plan to discuss here, then figure out where to put them, since the bookcase is overloaded already. Fiction and non-fiction, new or old, tangential or direct, they all have something that should be mentioned.