I'm doing a lot more remote trancing these days. I wish I had more live subjects to trance face to face.
My first trances were all face-to-face encounters. There was a comic store in town; I used to frequent the place all the time, and one of the fun things I used to do was hypnotise people regularly. I set up simple triggers - words coded into conversations, that activated behaviours such as instant trances, memory loss, undressing on command ... the usual.
The fact that nobody remembers ever removing their clothes in the shop is testament to my abilities ... that, and my penchant for programming amnesia into my subjects. Hint for 'tists: always clean up after you. Get them to dress before you restore their conscious minds, so they won't notice that something happened.
Later, I got into trancing people over the phone - and then trancing people by email and over Skype. And nowadays, all I do is trance people by email, it would seem. But it's been a gradual slide away from face-to-face trances to Manchurian Candidates everywhere, and I really miss the old days when I would talk to someone who was looking at me, and watching as their eyes glazed over and fluttered closed, and I could tell that I had them.
Hells, even if they're over Skype, I'd like to see some faces some time.
