Vicky, was the first session that I did specifically to be recorded on video for HypnoGames.com.

This was back in September of the year 2000. At the time, I was still coming in to my own as a professional erotic hypnotist. At the time we had been filming photographs from sessions with a digital camera, and making them available on the Internet. During one such camera, I had a cheap spycam that plugged in to a VCR and recorded the session. Although the video was very dark and grainy, I could tell that video was a million times better than still images.

We had designed the set in the way that we did because we wanted to avoid the "filmed in some guy's living room" look. Although we were successful in avoiding the "some guy's living room" look, the actual set left a lot to be desired.

Our equipment was very primitive, just a single Hi-8mm camera with an onboard microphone, and a halogen work lamp diffused through a sheet. We didn't know very much about the technical aspects of video production back then, in fact, we didn't even know enough to shut off the air conditioning while filming.

Regardless, everything was new and experimental for us back then, and we were exploring the possibility. Ultimately this would launch my erotic hypnosis career that has managed to survive adversity and overcome challenges for ten years now.

The sessions starts off awkwardly. However, once the process gets going, and the subject becomes passive, it becomes easier for me to feel confident and comfortable. At this point in my career, my inductions were very lengthy and tended to begin with a progressive relaxation induction moving in to guided imagery. I still hadn't learned how to see the signs that allowed me to determine depth of trance and would indicate whether or not I could proceed more quickly to a later state in the hypnotic process.

There's also quite a bit of physical separation between me and the subject. The bulk of my prior hypnotic experience had been with people that I had a personal relationship with. Since I generally met the subjects for my videos just moments before hypnotizing them, I didn't have that existing connection and familiarity. It wouldn't be until early 2001 that I would start to learn the things that would allow me to comfortably bridge that distance.

In addition, at that time period, I was not at all comfortable appearing on the camera. I was still very young and awkward and self conscious, and all those internal feelings were very apparent on camera. In fact, it would be the process of watching myself over and over again for hundreds and hundreds of hours that would lead me to developing a self awareness that would lead to me becoming more comfortable in front of the camera and learning how to project myself in a way that felt less awkward.

The induction process takes about seventeen minutes, and then I begin evaluating her response to suggestion by suggesting that her hands are stuck together and she can't pull them apart. She responds favorably, and then I move to the next test, the balloon test.

About 25 minutes in to the session I begin to get Vicky out of her clothing. This process is very mechanical, slow and step by step. I had almost forgotten how self conscious I was at the beginning of my career in the adult industry when it came to having women take off their clothes.

Another thing that I notice about my earlier work is that in all the same ways that my inductions were long and drawn out, I was also very quick to bring them out of the state of hypnosis and interact with them earlier on. As my work progressed over the years, the inductions got quicker, and I generally kept them in the state of trance longer.

At this point in the session it seemed like a good idea to suggest to Vicky that she believed she was still clothed and didn't remember the session beginning. Ultimately this would lead to a lot of awkward dialog, as well as a moment of lack of confidence in the suggestion. Fortunately the subject was responsive to the suggestion, and we continue with the session. Over the course of my career, I would move away from suggestions relating to the subject's memory, on account of the lack of something to directly observe, combined with the high likeliness of awkward conversation being part of the segment. Afterwards, I would return her to the trance state and explore her perspective and response to the suggestion.

I would do a short deepening suggestion, and then I would suggest that there are magnets on her knees. She responds very well to this suggestion. Then I give her a suggestion that she is a chicken. This has a rather enjoyable effect on her breasts. I then turn her in to a puppy dog for a short time.

About forty minutes in to the session I have Vicky stand up and believe that she is taking a shower. I then do another deepening exercise with her.

I put the idea in to Vicky's mind, repeating over and over again that she is a sexy model. These are her only thoughts. I then suggest an associated thrill with each flash of the camera. Once again, I am still feeling awkward describing the physical sensations of pleasure that she will feel, and am not very precise or descriptive. This is something that I improve upon over the years and develop with precision. We then have her pose for photographs naked.

I have Vicky stand up and hold her hands in front of her. I instruct her that when the answer is yes, her hands move up and when the answer is no her hands move down. I then ask her a few questions.

There is a pause in the video while I confer with my crew off camera and move the chair, in the meantime Vicky is left in a trance state. At nearly one hour in to the session, we have Vicky put on another outfit and then I bring her out of the trance state to talk with her a bit. We resume with Vicky back in the trance state, and I give her a series of instructions that cause her to reveal her body, and I give her instructions to trance fingers around her nipples, and she won't be able to stop. I have her wake up from the trance while suggesting that the more she traces her fingers around her nipples, the more aroused she'll become.

It is a good idea to do this in theory, however, in actuality, I'm not really sure how to interact with her in a somewhat conscious state with her panties around her ankles and her shirt over her breasts tracing her nipples. The conversation is very awkward, and I resume the suggestion, this time with her staring off in to space. I have her continue touching herself, and my awkwardness is once more apparent when I want to suggest that she touches her genitals in response to a hypnotic trigger, but the best I can manage is to tell her to trace her fingers around her pubic hair. Regardless, she caries out these instructions, and I can see that the pleasure and the arousal builds. Later in my career, I would develop the confidence and the experience that would allow me to look a woman in the eye, and tell her to touch her pussy in a sexual manner without any question that my instructions would be followed and without doubt that it would cause her to feel pleasure.

About an hour and ten minutes in to the video, I'm starting to get more bold and I place one thought in to Vicky's mind, the word horny. I then suggest that she touch herself in a pleasurable way. She touches herself in silence and then I suggest that she will make sexual and erotic noises as she touches herself, and the more noises she makes, the more aroused she'll feel. As she continues to touch herself, I have her repeat out loud what she's hearing in her head, and she repeats the word horny over and over again.

I give Vicky suggestions relating to her obedience to me, and then at about an hour and fifteen minutes in to the video I suggest that she will do an erotic dance to music. We didn't consider the copyright issues relating to music played during a video back then, and unfortunately don't have the rights to the Nirvana track that we played so the audio track is muted for the duration of the song.

At about an hour and 20 minutes in to the video, Vicky is staring blankly and mindlessly repeats the words I put in to her mind as I program a sequence of commands that she will carry out. I then give her a series of positive suggestions to help her out, and then give her a few moments to let them sink in.

Next I suggest that Vicky is a Hypnotized robot and that she will obey my commands. I then give her a series of commands that she caries out.

I suggest to Vicky that her eyes are fixated on my shiny object, and I use it to draw her attention for a short time. I then make her feel cold, this causes an instant reaction in her nipples. I then suggest that she feels very warm. I then suggest that she feels very horny. She starts to touch herself and continues to get more and more steamed up. However, i continue to deny her orgasm until I give her permission.

At about an hour and thirty-five minutes, I have Vicky put on her clothes again and then she drops back in to a trance when she asks me what she must do next. I then suggest that she doesn't remember being hypnotized and will deny that she's been hypnotized. Although at the same time, she can't remember any numbers after five. I talk with her a bit and the conversation ranges from the movie Dogma to references to the Celebrity Jeopardy Saturday Night LIve sketch. However, this was also my first realization that just because something sounds funny inside your head, it's not necessarily going to be funny in context. It was also the first time that I learned that the delivery of my jokes needed a lot more work in terms of tonality, pacing and timing.

At about an hour and forty minutes, I have Vicky back in the trance state and have set her arms in to motion, and she can't stop them. When she tries to stop her hands from moving, it only results in her pulling off her clothes. I then make her stiff and rigid and pick her up.

At an hour and fifty minutes, I make Vicky think that she is a body builder showing off her muscles.