The Great Desmond.
Hypnotist. Magician. Enchanter.
Witness the dark reflection and darker desires within as demonstrated by the variety of erotic tales involving the powers of hypnotism, magic and mind control. You will find them fascinating, captivating, arousing and even a little disturbing.
Why hypnosis? What is it about hypnotism that drives you to write about it?
I was first enthralled by the subject of hypnotism when I watched the Basil Rathbone / Sherlock Holmes movie "The Woman in Green" and saw the power of hypnosis, albeit in an unrealistic literary form. There is a certain sensual appeal to the hypnotic femme fatale as she wraps her subject in a silken web of hypnotic enchantment and entrancement by her eyes, her voice, her body.
However, when I investigated the subject through the local library, I discovered the appeal of the hypnotized female subject, because most of the books available at that time featured images of female subjects being entranced as illustrations. There is something sensual about how soft and passive their faces become when they are entranced, the gentle smile that graces their lips, the soft sigh they give as they slip into trance.
With said sensual interest in female hypnotists and subjects, it is no wonder that I, the Great Desmond, have taken to writing stories involving that interest.
I think that hypnosis is all a bunch of bull. It doesn't exist.
And I think that anyone who thinks that hypnosis doesn't exist is a fool. Perhaps I should hypnotize them and make then cluck like chickens, or worse, make them characters in my next story who get hypnotized to cluck like chickens.
Hypnosis is a well-recognized psychological phenomenon, even to the point of being recognized on brain scans. Said scans also differentiate hypnosis and sleep, putting the lie to James Braid's mistake in naming the phenomenon for the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos. I can personally attest to the acts of subjects under hypnosis that they would have found impossible otherwise, or so they thought: they always could do this, but they lacked some mental ingredient supplied through hypnosis that they could otherwise learn and employ themselves without hypnosis.
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