by Kharon » February 3rd, 2009, 8:26 pm
Ironically, wanting a file to work -- especially an erotic one, can also hurt the experience. Your conscious mind builds a double expectation -- you *want* it to work, but you know going in (the first time) that it doesn't work (yet). Thus your mind reinforces the negative belief, "this trigger is useless", which encourages posts like this. Likewise the extra excitement from a strong interest in a file (especially if it's sexual to you) can make it harder to relax and experience trance, since you get worked up beforehand, and if you don't release that stress, the induction won't necessarily do it for you.
This is why it's a good idea to start by building some very simple suggestions up, which you have no particularly strong feelings about. For me, rushing into, say, TrigFurryTransformation was a horrible call, those years ago when I tried it first. In the time since, I've been able to determine that using freeze and strip triggers as tests, I can prove a response, and by using a modified incarnation of the Enchanted Keyboard Curse that gives me great logical flow and precision in what I want to write, and the order in which I want it to occur (if any order), I've not only demonstrated the ability to program myself from outside of trance, but to have very creative interpretations of how to achieve things and also to increase my suggestability.
How? Simply by writing that I am suggestible, and that when I choose to listen to a file, I listen to it fully (so that I don't stop a file I chose to start halfway without good cause, and go back to it when possible). I also added a control over what suggestions actually get accepted by allowing myself to wake up at a "bad" suggestion, but still listening through to identify the bad, for the sake of editing.
I still have visualization and hallucination trouble, so I recognize that I'm not yet fully ready for TrigFurryTransformation, but I've been working on it by using triggers that aren't simple turn-ons for me, and by using hypnosis recordings, before that, which were simply trance and deepening, to help alleviate how much of a turn-on just hypnosis (of myself or another person) is for me.
Keep at it, and try simpler files. A lot of people have written well of Lady Rio's Female Orgasm, and I advise the Freeze trigger (either version) as a good starter suggestion. Also, as long as you can control the use of it, the strip trigger is good. If you're worried about being triggered at random, or being interrupted while training the trigger, avoid it in favor of Freeze. Also, keep in mind that training yourself to respond is as much a part as actually planting the trigger "seed" -- what good is a trigger to strip if it never once gets used to make you strip? Eventually it fades from your subconscious memory unless it's used.