Before I head off to my absolutely (NOT) wonderful Philosophy: Ethics course for the morning, I thought I would post here about the alleged ponification hypnosis thing that's been going around.

I tried it yesterday, last night, about an hour before I went to sleep.

For those who do not know, the aim of these files are to hypnotize you into the state of having a personality and body image more inline with whatever pony you attempt to become.

Let me just start off with the simple statement: it works.

At least, to some degree.

Firstly, as for the technical stuff, the hypnosis voices dubbed over the tracks are very well done in terms of content, speed, phrasing, the pauses, etc., but the audio isn't so great on the Fluttershy one. I thought I had it at about the right volume but it gets a little quieter partway through and I didn't want to break my entrance into the trance just to turn it up, so even if it feels a little loud, you may want to turn it up a bit.

Secondly, my personal experience made me unable to finish the track. As I was going through it, I resisted a bit but once it got down to the countdown I forced my way through the body relaxation and forewent control of my limbs. This part can be very difficult, especially if your movements are restless like me. However, I recommend fighting against the urge to move. If you are susceptible to hypnosis, you will get to the point where your restlessness leaves you.

Once I got past that, though, I realized that the volume wasn't high enough, so I had to struggle to listen to what the narrator was saying, since he talks a bit strangely. That weakened my trance.

Finally, my body was starting to overheat since I didn't have the ceiling fan on and I was completely covered by my blanket, something I don't do often, but what really broke my trance was that I realized I wasn't in a perfectly neutral position, and my neck started to ache ever so slightly. It became so annoying that I had to move, and then my trance broke instantly.

Now, for what the trance is like; it is extremely peaceful. I have been the subject of hypnosis before and it has never worked on me at any point, so I assumed that I would not be susceptible at all. That is not the case; in fact, the idea of susceptibility may not be entirely true. It is possible that everyone can be hypnotized, and only those who are "immune" are those who are going about it via the wrong methods.

I easily fell into this trance only after fifteen minutes.

After the body trance, the part where it moves to the ponification is a little rushed. I felt like the images of changing your body into what he describes were moving too fast, and that my own body image wasn't changing fast enough.

It wasn't, but surprisingly enough, the few changes I made it through lasted even after I broke through my trance, until I fell asleep thirty minutes later.

I felt the shape of my spine contouring to that of an equine, and although my arms felt mostly normal aside from a newfound fluidity in movement, I could feel a strange sensation of both shortness and strength in my legs. It was as if I had perfect control of them in entirety, much more than a human could achieve, and all the senses that touched my legs were changed into things more smooth, as if I had another layer of skin.

Sadly, the image of wings were the hardest and I felt almost nothing, and by the time it got to changing the skin into having a coat of soft fur, I was about to break.

As for the personality changes, those were the hardest. I am already compassionate but not very loving, and thus it was very difficult to open up to the suggestions that I become loving of all things, especially woodland creatures and friends that I don't really have (since I don't even have six friends after I moved to university), but I did feel at ease and more nurturing than I would have before. The track may have moved too fast in that respect, and jumped to the body metamorphosis too quickly.

Overall, I will definitely try it again tonight, especially since I don't really have anything but a small engagement tomorrow, and hope that I get further.

For those interested, search the hypnosis thread. It has the main document, which links to the files.

I cannot speak to the quality of the hypnosis files other than Fluttershy, since that's the only one I used.