Hypnosis.

While I don´t have DID, I did have an experience where it seems I was accidentally hypnotized and it was quite a shock.

I heard that DID people, are the people who are most susceptible to hypnosis (please correct if wrong and/or add if you know more about this). Have you had any problems arise due to high susceptibility to hypnosis? If so then how did/do you deal with it? Or do you think there are any positives to this?

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Thank you for this post. It's something I would like to talk to my T about but keep on forgetting to do so.

Have you had any problems arise due to high susceptibility to hypnosis?

Yes. I have abusers who are fully aware of my high hypnotizability‎ and have taken advantage of it to commit crimes against myself and others numerous times. They have also used dissociative drugs on me.

When I was 15, I was using a (very reverberant) public wash room when somebody came in and slammed the door behind themselves very loudly. They then lunged toward me in a cat like way and clicked there fingers in front of me in a rapid downward motion. I was stunned and, in a daze, I gave out my name and address. Something very bad happened to me a few nights later. There were repercussions from that night a few weeks later and I lost the trust and rapport of my parents as i kept on denying something because I was amnesiac to what had happened.
If anybody reading this is an expert or knows a little about hypnosis I would be glad to hear their opinion as to whether or not this was indeed hypnosis or just plain dissociation out of fear.

Years later, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and crossed paths with them again and they took advantage of my weakness once again. They can come out of nowhere all of a sudden, and the next thing I know, I'm in a very bad situation with them a long way from home.

I remember years ago, a friend, practicing some armchair psychiatry, hypnotized me and it amazed me that he could do so with only the slightest movement of his fingers.


I'm curious as to how you were accidently hypnotized!

Yes we have. I'm not sure if it were accidents but honestly I tend to think it was deliberately, at least at the hands of one person. He gave me post hypnotic suggestions that lasted for quite some time. Hypnosis is a sort of extreme absorption. Grade 5 hypnotizable people get hypnotized by accident a lot and they probably don't even know it. Not all of them have DID, though it is thought that grade 5 hypnotizable people are more susceptible to developing DID in the school of thought that dissociation is a sort of self hypnosis. Correct me if I'm wrong it's been a while since I read about this. How I try to deal with it is by trying to stick to myself instead of becoming absorbed into other people. But I'm lousy at it cause I don't notice that it still happens. I guess it can be positive too.

OhNoNotAgain wrote:I'm curious as to how you were accidently hypnotized!

It seems like I was hypnotized by a movie that I was watching, in the movie a person was performing hypnosis on another person.

Very interesting collective. I guess awareness be the key.

The positive side of it would be that I can easily go into a trance by just simply observing the pattern of tiles on a floor, watching the movement of ants around a cake crumb dropped on the ground, the swaying back and forth of tree branches etc.. This state is very pleasant and relaxing.

I´ve sometimes found this sort of state extremely unpleasant, perhaps that comes from finding myself stuck in it... but not in a dangerous way.