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Just-noticeable difference - Wikipedia

Kinda just glad I can start talking about JNDs and use this as an example as it relates to hypnosis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-no...

Revisiting Hypnosis is nice if you want a gentle technique for high anxiety subjects that want to dip their toes in and maintain control. Hypnotic Handshakes kind of just... makes how those inductions work blatantly obvious.

All easy reads!

Hm. If you've already got his How to do Hypnosis book, I'm not sure his other ones would be useful unless you want some induction skateboard tricks - most of which you already know.

I do like Therapeutic Inductions - which might help deliberately 'blur' the line between induction and phenomena.

Or rather - how crazy do you want your source to be?

Know what you're looking for? I feel like you might be tired of my perspectives at this point 😅

Also - what are you thinking as far as theory?
- Academic models?
- Techniques?
- Perspectives?
- Linguistic techniques?
- Fringe mind control bullshit?

FWIW, my enjoyment comes from subjective alterations, not control. So that part is at least easy to stay aligned with.

Thanks for listening to my mini vent!

So, I assume my readers have the best intentions they can, and try not to encourage anyone to stick their dick in a blender. There's nothing unethical about that, but most would be surprised with the consequences when they're turned on.

I also feel like prescribing morality and ethics is essentially moot - individuals lean on motivated reasoning at best, and don't give a fuck at worst. The HR sexual harassment training tapes are (IMO, I haven't researched this) about as useful as an asshole on an elbow.

I hear that. It's not the same thing - there's content I'd enjoy writing on safety, but given that most hypnotists don't read, and even less subjects (by ratio) do, it'd end up being used as a blueprint to really fuck people up, rather than prophylaxis.

Maaaan I'm just doing my best out here

I was tired of that world anyway 😅

Stuff I'm on board with is in orange. Darkened a few things that are either a turnoff or the perspective has a chance to ruin a relationship.

Got a chart of hypno opinions I've found/heard/thought of over the years. I paraphrased them and sorted them below.

If you align with any of them, mark them on a copy of the image!

If it's off the venn diagram, I consider it fringe but it's still there for relative scale

bsky compression may kill

I stress way too much for a silver-standard hypnosis educator

Update. This book was a waste of time.

(No, I don't have a proposed solution.)

Some speculative whiteboard masturbation - but it's interesting to see the pup community 'oversaturated' with 101 information geared towards pups rather than handlers. (IMO, the hypnosis community could use more content geared towards subjects.)

Quote from St. Clair, J. (n.d.). Bark! Nazca Plains.

It doesn't excuse poor behavior on either side, but it can make it less problematic when someone is being a shit.

I'm on writing sabbatical, but it'd be nice to spread this to newer tists:
- Test clicker response *early* to make sure the subject can handle it.
- If clicker training, *also* train the null response if a clicker is in the hands of someone else. (Irritation, indifference, etc.)

Never used leetcode before - took me like 5 minutes to solve. If I had someone looking over my shoulder I would've felt anxious about my brain farts. I'm definitely O(n^2) though.

🧡 Just makes me happy to see ya out having fun

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

Well. Some news is good.

www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

Todo - stop this pattern:
- Resolve to do less emotional labor.
- Keep your own shit together.
- Appear available because you're self-regulating.
- Do emotional labor anyway.
- Self-regulate away frustration with the self-imposed asymmetry.

(I'm figuring it out.)

Days since being randomly asked for a session on reddit: 0

Oh jeez. @_@ That's huge!

You're one of the few folks I can think like... "Oh, actually, if they put their mind to it, that'll absolutely happen."

Rooting for ya and ping me any time on it!

Got it - I'll give it a go! Still debating how much I want to cheap out on storage and how to manage that.

Researchrabbit is something I've gotta try out

If you told me three years ago I’d be installing Zotero to manage my hypnosis citations, I would ask you to buy me a beer.

Article: "Objectification and Passive Suggestions"

Objects don't move. Objects don't think.

We can use the framing of objectification to create extremely potent trances -- using suggestions that allow a person to succeed by being passive, like an object.

www.patreon.com/posts/151811...

I'll DM. My play partner at the time abreacted by screaming but it was effective 😅 they would've kept going