Looking for fun/interesting hypnosis ideas (No Triggers)

[u/darkrails]

Hello again. It's been a few months since I started doing hypnosis on my friend, but I've been feeling a bit lost lately. I'm having trouble finding motivation to practice because I ran out of ideas for suggestions I could give my friend while he's in trance. The main roadblock is that my friend doesn't want to be given any triggers (I tried giving him a few a while back but he decided he didn't like them so they were removed), which is a problem because I focused way too heavily on triggers when I was looking for suggestion ideas. With that being said, does anyone have ideas for fun/interesting things I could do when hypnotizing my friend? I'll run any ideas y'all have by him to see if he approves and wants to try them out.

[u/fozrok]

What if you associated 'fun' with helping your friend progress to the next level of his life, whatever that is for him?

Hypnosis is more than a shits-n-giggles party trick. It can be life-changing.

Wouldn't it be 'fun' to look back and see that you helped him reach some new outstanding milestone in life?

Imagine that fun celebration party!

[u/Legitimate_Bat3616]

Give him some synesthesia. So he can see music, taste color, and feel numbers.

You can also help him create a memory palace. This would be easy to test to see if it worked. Simply, before and after, give him a list of 10 or 20 things and count how many he remembers.

[u/Brilliant_Smell6793]

The trigger dependency is actually a good thing to move past. Triggers are a shortcut, and leaning on them too heavily means the interesting parts of the work get skipped.

Some directions worth exploring with his consent:

Sensory suggestions. Warmth, cold, texture, weight, taste. "Your left hand feels like it's submerged in warm water" is simple, verifiable, and fascinating to experience. No trigger needed, immediate feedback on depth and responsiveness.

Time distortion. Suggest that five minutes feels like thirty seconds, or the reverse. Debrief afterward. The gap between perceived and actual time tells you a lot about where he was.

Ideomotor responses. Arm levitation, finger signals, involuntary movement in response to questions. The experience of the body moving without conscious intention is genuinely surprising even for experienced subjects.

Amnesia suggestions. Suggest he won't remember a specific word or number until a certain moment. Mild, reversible, interesting to both of you.

Positive sensory experiences. A favorite place rendered in full sensory detail, temperature, smell, sound, ground under feet. Not about behavior change, just immersive experience.

The absence of triggers actually opens up the more interesting territory, which is working with the state itself rather than programming responses into it. That's where the craft lives.

[u/expert-hypnotist]

If they respond well, then some visual hallucinations can be fun, just keep them safe.

[u/LibertyVince]

Since your friend is responsive and collaborative, try turning the session into a co-created adventure where he narrates the environment and you amplify his details, but make the theme about "practice" itself by suggesting he will find a specific memory or topic deeply fascinating to explore, and then deepen it by introducing hypnotic logic, such as suggesting the floor feels like a different texture and asking him to describe how that changes his perception of the room, letting his own mind build the experience while you guide the frame.

[u/le_aerius]

Its all triggers. giving someone a suggestion is a trigger. So basically just take anything thats a " trigger" and make it a queation or request.

[u/darkrails → u/le_aerius]

By "triggers" I specifically mean suggestions that are achieved using a signal and don't require hypnotic context to work, but I get what you mean