Hi,

I really appreciate the effort and inventiveness of the files I've tried here. I am a hard person to take into trance, and the files I've tried here have worked about as well as any I've tried. Which is to say, very well, relatively speaking. I want to thank you all for making your help here available (for free, no less), and for your concern for helping people like me get their trance on.

I did, however, have a few suggestions that may be of some use.

First, I'm sure you know this, but the sound quality of the vocal parts of these recordings is not as good as it might be. This sometimes affects my ability to actually understand the words being said. This is independently of the effects of trance, I think. I don't know, but it's possible that the solution might be as simple as just a different cheap microphone or different program for recording the sound. It could also be that the files are too compressed for their own good. It's not something I know much about, but I do know that using Audigy (a free audio mixing program) and a relatively cheap microphone and a cheap soundblaster external sound card, I"ve made other sorts of recordings that are easier to hear.

I find that Elena's deep breaths are much less deep than mine, so it is hard to match her rhythm at that point in the recording, so perhaps if it slowed down there a bit, it would be easier to stay in sync.

There's a bit of a confusion deepener with counting in the middle, connected to a kinesthetic activity. I think that if you want to induce a bit of confusion and fatigue, it is more likely to be effective if the grounds for confusion are more severe and ... confusing. And perhaps varying the cadence there would also be helpful -- to help throw off the conscious mind from its tracks. Confuse by being confusing, rather than saying that the subject is confused.

These are generally minor suggestions. On the whole, I think the file works very well, and I hope you can do others in the same vein, or builing on it, since it seems to work pretty well for me.

The free files have deliberate faults. Many are going to be very good, but those are mostly produced on a whim. More often than not, compression from the lossless format we record in to mp3 does hurt sound quality. Overall, the only files we worry much about this on are customs and ones we plan to charge for. However, if enough people say a file just plain sucks, I'll probably ask Rae if I may take it down and do it again. But the sample files were just that, sample files. We haven';t improved them and don't plan to. Better inductions will follow. Like the one I put up earlier. Glad you're enjoying the site. As to the methods, a variety of experimental ones are being tried, chances are good that you'll run into odd combinations that work better for some people than for you, you may want to switch inductions.

myself, i no longer try to match my breathing to a file, the only thing i try to match is how long to hold it before exhaling. i found some time ago that i have to do the breathing at my own pace to be able to enter trance. i can get my breathing far slower than any of the files i have listened to. i have had my breathing slow enough before that if you were to rip the covers off me while i am trancing, unless you watched me closely, you would think that i had stopped breathing completely.



MacGyver

Wow MacGyver. I find that following the breathing instructions helps me go deeper as it helps me relax and also helps me go down as I am following the instructions of the hypnotist.

well, it is just that i have experimented with so many files, and so many hypnotists would do different speeds on the breathing, that for my mind, if i follow a different pattern for each file i try with, trance becomes impossble, i found a rythm i was comfortable with, and stayed with it, and it has worked. some hypnotists are too fast with their breathing and some are too slow. now give me enough time with obey women, and i will most likely follow the rythm of the voice in the file, but that is going to take a bit of time.



MacGyver

I take your point. The different speeds with different files doesn't bother me really. I still find that following what the tist says helps me.

well, i am a bit wierd and i hardly think anyone is going to accuse me of ever being normal, ha ha.

however, my mind does work 100% backwards from the other 98% of the world's population.

for example, the manufacturer may say to feed a machine and run it a certain way, if i do that, it comes out wrong, for someone else it comes out right, yet if i feed and run the machine totally backwards, i get far better results than those who run it the right way, and those who try to copy my way of doing things, only mess up the machine and the final product. does this make any sense or did i just end up confusing everyone who reads this?



MacGyver

No worries my friend I understood what you meant haha. No one will accuse me of that either lol