by Alien4420 » November 4th, 2010, 8:41 am
But it doesn't really follow, since not really opposed to and didn't want to do are two different things.
A direct suggestion can't make you do something you're seriously opposed to, no. But it can make you do things that you didn't want to do. As in it can't make you shoot your grandfather (unless you seriously dislike your grandfather), but it can make you dump a pitcher of ice water over your head.
The reason I mention this is because IMO this hypnosis factoid has been distorted, both in the popular mind and surprisingly by many hypnotists, into the belief that hypnosis can't make you do something that is harmful to you or that you don't want to do. That's rot. As Ryan can attest, hypnosis can have harmful effects.
Hypnosis can also, as perhaps in the OP's case, strengthen an interest that's been repressed for good practical reasons. We all carry around impulses that, if acted upon, wouldn't be good for us. Sometimes we're conscious of them, the way I'm conscious of a desire to shoot the barking dog across the street, and sometimes we aren't. Either way, strengthening them can be a mistake, if they're suppressed for a good reason.
OTOH, strengthening those impulses can be liberating if forex you're a closet gay guy whose upbringing keeps him from having a happy life. Or just someone who gets off on the idea of being changed or controlled.
The important thing, as I see it, is to recognize that there's always a possibility that a file will change you before you listen. That's true whether it's just a matter of knowledge, or whether we're pretending to ourselves that a file won't work as a rationalization so that we can act on a buried urge or a desire to be dominated -- though perhaps in the latter case the subconscious is making the right call.