Insanity

[242424]

Simple idea: a file that'll drive its listener totally insane. I'm talking totally fucked up and twisted psychopath level insane. Obviously this one would be good as a temporary experience instead of a curse.

[JackDrago]

I sincerely hope the hypnotists here are ethical enough to avoid doing such a thing. That said, Manly Spirit causes what psychologists would call Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[zapnosis]

Simple idea: Don't even go there.

[Jackstock]

I think we can relax on the ethical views of this... it would just be a fantasy. I don't believe you could actually turn insane from listening to an audio

[OxyFemboi]

[quote]JackStock wrote
I think we can relax on the ethical views of this... it would just be a fantasy. I don't believe you could actually turn insane from listening to an audio [/quote]

Saying it's not possible is one way to make me wonder if I could actually make a file like that. I've written a few files that I haven't posted because they are constructed to cause a psychological effect described in the current list of psychological disorders, DSM-V. (This hasn't stopped me from posting alter files which cause MPD/DID, though.)

Oxy

[JackDrago]

@jackstock I have seen some BAD abreactions in my time, unfortunately psychological damage from hypnosis is totally possible. I have had to clean up after it and it's not pretty. The typical thing is an inept hypnotist who is trying to do something way beyond his skill, and / or a subject who failed to disclose a preexisting mental illness or piece of prior hypnosis that was incompatible.

Could it be done deliberately? Probably. You would need a very skilled hypnotist with an intimate knowledge of that particular subjects psychology and a subject who was vulnerable to such a thing. For it to stick the resulting insanity would have to be ecological for the subject, but there are many cases where that could be so; most notably the original poster's case of wanting to be insane. The hidden observer isn't going to protect a subject from a self chosen goal state.

My favorite example is Sgt Shaw (the brainwashed assassin in Manchurian Candidate): Ordinarily you couldn't hypnotize someone into being a killer, but Raymond Shaw as portrayed in the novel is an angry guy who subconsciously constantly wants to kill everyone. A subject who had the Sgt. Shaw ecology would fail to resist the suggestions to kill that 99% of subjects successfully resist precisely because it satisfies a preexisting subconscious need, and he only succeeds in killing someone other than the intended target [b]because[/b] it's more ecological for him to kill his abusive mother (the true source of his rage) than it is to follow orders and kill yet another stranger.

[Casey]

This kind of file would be a lawsuit for sure.. even if the listener wanted it.. it would not stop family, friends, and loved ones suing...

[kzarin]

I'd be interested in this as something to add to my own private work, as this sounds like a way to hollow out a resistant personality and fill it packed full of obedience to certain kinds of instructions. Which is the work I'm after.

[Jackstock]

[url]This kind of file would be a lawsuit for sure.. even if the listener wanted it.. it would not stop family, friends, and loved ones suing...[/url]
Depends where you live, but the chances of that working in court are slim. Most people barely believe in hypnosis at all, especially not lawyers and judges.