Hypnotic inflation

OK, i can do that. I might even be able to find the old tape and convert the recording. In a way, the scepticism isn't that important because in any case huge inflation leading to floating is completely unrealistic, so being able to suspend disbelief enough to accept you're being hypnotised is dead easy compared to that. It's a big step from reality to "people can be blown up like balloons" but a much smaller one from that to "people can be blown up like balloons and hypnosis works." Also, it might work if you believe it does, or it might even really work!

The trigger word could be chosen carefully, but i think it could be exciting to know that all that's needed is for someone to say a particular word and you'd start blowing up.

Blowup_boy, stage hypnotists seem to use techniques to find more suggestible people (or perhaps people who are more likely to play along) before they start their acts in earnest, so maybe you're unlucky. It would sort of work as a kind of roleplay even if it didn't actually work 100%, if you see what i mean. Probably depends on what counts as working, and also what hypnosis actually is.

Anyway, when i get the opportunity, i'll practice and put something together, then stick it on YouTube.

Yes, i will do - currently busy doing something else inflation-related, but i will get round to it soon, honestly!

Now that is a really interesting question! I suppose what could be done is for some kind of trigger event to set off a post-hypnotic suggestion, like say putting a hose in someone's mouth, and for one person the trigger is "when you feel the hose in your mouth you will begin to inflate" and for the other it's "when you put the hose in THEY will begin to inflate".

This is all highly theoretical of course, but it's a really exciting possibility. Apart from anything else, it potentially makes very convincing inflation roleplay a cheaper option than buying inflatable suits. Then again, suits could be aided by hypnosis - just suggest that the suit is the person's body inside it and you're sorted.

I have a whole hypothesis about the nature of the perception of real inflation which makes that difficult to answer. Just as anorexics might perceive themselves as fatter than they really are, or someone with a skin problem can think it's worse than others see it, i suspect the perception of inflation is liable to considerable distortion. I honestly cannot judge how inflated i am objectively either while i'm doing it or when i see images of myself bloated, or compare that to how others do. I may be exaggerating or underestimating - no idea. If this applies to others, and to hypnosis, it could be exploited. You could find yourself convinced that people are bigger than you would perceive them to be in a normal state of mind, and i'm not sure what constitutes hallucination there, if that makes sense.

The other thing is, and i've not tried this, apparently all you need do to make yourself hallucinate visually is to lie completely still for half an hour, which is more easily said than done, so i don't know if it's true.

I'm planning to put it on YouTube and also thinking of how to make it freely downloadable as an MP3. DropBox might be a solution. I'm looking at sample hypnosis scripts and putting something together.

Thanks for your patience - currently trying to launch a book. That would absolutely make sense, so yes, good idea. Incidentally, i'm working on an inflation ebook and thought i could include hypnosis scripts in that.

Yes, lulu.com . In fact, it's nearly finished. It has fifteen stories, more than half of which have not appeared anywhere publically. I'm aiming it partly at fellow inflation fetishists but i'm also trying to explain and introduce the idea to others. The stories are supposed to work in their own right and be thought-provoking for non-inflation people, and possibly also put things in the limelight because of my frustration with therapists, Wikipedia users and TV producers being sceptical or people like that one on deviantart.com defining us negatively in her terms. Basically, i can only speak for myself and am only doing so with the book, but i think there's a risk of prejudice if it's just left for others to comment on what we like.

Anyway, it's not a case of either/or because writing this in itself involves writing a hypnosis script, so it's not going to delay things much. Real life can manage that on its own!

Some people are just more easily hypnotised than others, but that could become a self-fulfilling prophecy because it would probably be true if you thought it was!

Now recorded three inflation scripts with more to come.  The three i've done so far are "realistic" inflation, "unrealistic" inflation and blueberrification.  I'm also planning to do a posthypnotic suggestion one and a lighter-than-air one.  There is no popping in any of them.  The sound quality is not marvellous either, but it's a start.

One other thing.  Right now, the audio quality is not good and i may redo them, and they're currently WAV files.  Where should i put them and would you prefer them to be MP3s or some other format?  Would you like them on YouTube as audio with images as well?

Right, i've put three on Soundcloud.  Each one starts and finishes in the same way.  Incidentally, the quality is not at all good, so i'm planning to re-record them.  Someone else might want to do that too.  Also, you might want to wait until i've done better recordings than these rather than using them at all right now.  Once i've resolved the audio quality issue, i'll upload some more.  The scripts are also in the ebook.  Anyway, here they are:

http://soundcloud.com/amanda-turlington/realistic

- This is a realistic one.

http://soundcloud.com/amanda-turlington/unrealistic-inflation-hypnosis

- Unrealistic one.

http://soundcloud.com/amanda-turlington/blueberrification

- Blueberrification one.

I'm also planning to do lighter than air and a posthypnotic suggestion one, and probably more, but i'll get the quality sorted first.

I could do weight gain - i have something in mind for that i've tried before which works quite well.  However, i'm not good at imagining food for some reason.

Concerning maximising the effectiveness, i'll have to continue the research, but i have a few tips which might help.  Firstly, i need to re-record them because they're cruddy! That could be distracting.  I think the key might be to go into the process when you feel confident that you have enough time to set aside - about fifteen minutes - and to make sure you're relaxed and confidently expectant that it will work.  Also, it would probably help to be a little tired but not tired enough that lying down and closing your eyes will inevitably lead to going to sleep.  I'm thinking early evening might be best.  Maybe creating a relaxed environment would also help, e.g. the usual sort of thing like candlelight, essential oils, soothing music and a warm bath beforehand.  Finally, i imagine repeating the process would gradually make it more effective, but not over a single evening so much as, say, every night for a week.  However, i'm feeling my way here and i could be wrong.  Last thing at night is probably not a good idea because of the waking up bit at the end.

Anyway, i tried them all last night.  It would've helped if i hadn't stuck them all on the same player, one after another, because i was aware that unless i deliberately turned it off, i'd just go into the next file and that was distracting.  I also found that lying on my back was difficult because i'm not comfortable in that position, but to do what it says would involve being in that position.  That was problematic. I did it that way because i think of inflation as occurring upwards from a lying position and felt it would interfere with suspension of disbelief to lie on the front or sides.  I may change this.  Of all three, blueberrification worked the best for me, which is interesting because it was the one i was least into.  I don't know if that worked best because it was fresh to me.

There's more to come, don't worry, with better sound quality.  I think Soundcloud can only be a temporary place though because it only gives you two hours' worth for free.

Edit:  One other thing which might help.  With the blueberrification, i suggest that the listener is wearing blue clothes and a red belt and chewing blue gum.  I think this would probably work particularly well if they dressed up and were able to use real blue gum as a prop.

Good! Let me know how it goes.

I have now re-recorded but not uploaded the three original scenarios but not the going under and coming up sections. When i've done that, i'll splice them together again and record some more, e.g. posthypnotic suggestion, weight gain and lighter than air. I've also thought about using an inflationary theme for the actual process of hypnosis.