Have you ever read that hypnosis can uncover forgotten memories? Maybe seen someone suggest that by taking you down and regressing you, they can uncover a lost source of trauma and make you feel better today?
It's bullshit.
I'm a firm believer in the idea that the more you understand hypno, the better able you are to enjoy it so I'm always honest with you about the possibilities and limits. Your memory's no better when you're in trance than when you're out. What your mind is better at doing is believing a memory is true, whether it is or it isn't. And of course that's what I'm going to take advantage of today.
In 2018 two researchers at Lomonosov Moscow University studied 120 people suffering with anxiety due to a past trauma and subjected a quarter to discussion, a quarter as a control group listening to soothing nature sounds, a quarter to altering the memory to have a positive outcome, and a quarter to having a false memory implanted.
Four months later the discussion and control groups reported no change in their anxiety. The group with the altered memory were more anxious. But the group with the false memory?
They felt better. They had less anxiety. And they remembered the false memory as real.
So how can we use this? Well submission in kink so often comes with shame. So what if I made you remember a femdom experience with your teacher? That one you always had a crush on. What if she caught you doing something you shouldn't, and punished you in what became your first experience of eroticism as a sub?
What if your mind blocked the memory for so long because it was trying to make you forget the fear and shame, but as a result of that you forgot the exhilaration? Not remembering properly led to confusion and doubt. But by blocking as a result of the negative emotions, your mind still kept a tag of them around, though you didn't understand why. That led to confusion, and the confusion led to anxiety.
By remembering this wonderful memory, you'll remember that the fear and shame led into excitement and erotica. It was an amazing, formative, experience, and as a result you've been chasing that high ever since, but not really understanding what you were looking for.
As with all hypnosis, you're free to accept or reject this suggestion. You can treat it as nothing more than an erotic fantasy. But if you want, you can commit to the memory. You can understand that you do remember the experience of it from my trance, and that's really no different to remembering it from your youth. The memory is still there so what does it matter when it happened or where it originated? You remember it all the same because in whatever form it came, it is a real memory, it is a positive memory, and the knowledge of that makes you more comfortable in who you are today.
And yes, that same logic applies to all our sessions.
But for today... remember that time your teacher caught you?
