WE'RE BACK, just in time for the New Year! To ease back in after a wild couple of months, we got more drunk than we expected and just flowed. Enjoy hanging out with us and hearing some frivolous absurdity, including discussions of Hypnotic Realities by Erickson and Rossi, Evangelion (of course), fanfiction, and more. Also, as an amazing treat, hear some of her most truly Ericksonian hypnosis at the end of this episode as sleepingirl levels up her trancing.

One of the most common questions in hypnosis is: "How do we make triggers or suggestions that are longer-lasting and more persistent?" In this episode, we go through a variety of concepts and techniques to help answer this question. We talk about the role of memory, sensory and emotional conditioning, an NLP concept called future pacing, and more. This episode was sponsored by Mindless Matters -- a fun erotic hypnosis podcast hosted by two queer trans gals that includes discussion, frivolity, learning and demonstration, found at anchor.fm/mindless-matters.

Improvising hypnotic trances is a big level-up skill for many hypnotists -- the idea that we can make any concept suggestive is thrown around a lot in the community, but what are some ways we can think of that constructively?

In this topic suggested by @FrozenAmazon on Twitter, we talk about the nuances of playing in public, the value of secrets, and how waking trance fits into our model. Plus, a wild tangent about sexual arousal?? Where do you fit in on our scale? Also, the podcast has its own Twitter account now -- follow @TwoHypChicks to see cute behind the scenes stuff, suggest topic ideas, and keep up with the latest!

We discuss the idea of emotional sadomasochism -- what is it about being mean, making someone uncomfortable, that is so hot? How does this relate to manipulation? This episode contains demonstrations of conversational sadism throughout and calls back to our conversations about being evil or "wrong" in a relationship.

We did a lovely rope scene on the day of recording, and came to a lot of breakthroughs in terms of how kinesthetic elements relate to communication in hypnosis (as well as rope) scenes, ideas about pacing and leading, and our relationship. This was a super fun drunk episode with some good shmoopy stuff and some big thinky stuff too. Enjoy!

In this topic (suggested by GleefulAbandon), we dive into the idea of mixing different kinds of pain with hypnosis -- how does this work? Can pain be an induction method? What kinds of qualities should we be thinking about when considering different aspects of impact? Also, this was one of our favorite trances in a long time :)

sleepingirl needs a desperate break from smartness so drunkeness and shenanigans ensue: expect discussions of anime, video games, hypnosis in media, and some Overwatch-confessional ASMR.

We sit down for a nice chat reminiscing about the myths about hypnosis that we had to unlearn for ourselves over the time we've been doing all of this -- some of the usual and some stuff that might not be as common (but who knows)! A good mix of subject- and hypnotist-centric stuff! And some fun tips and tricks along the way (and maybe even a drinking game / hypnosis idea :P).

What is "evil" in regards to play? It's such a common theme and desire, but what are a couple ways we can define it for ourselves? In this episode, we brush the surface in a casual conversation of a deep topic -- and sleepingirl turns it up to trance cc at the end.