Observations About Subspace

Second Preamble

 
This is the second of three posts I’m making about subspace.

The previous one covers a rather intense experience I had, when I encountered subspace for the first time.

This one covers my personal observations of submissives experiencing subspace whilst in my charge, their reports to me of their experiences with subspace, and the conclusions I’ve drawn from observing their experiences of subspace.

The next one will cover my more technical (though still not very technical) observations about the physiological and neurological mechanisms of subspace.

This post contains the links I mentioned in my earlier post, which were not permitted to be posted in the yahoo group.
 
 

My Observations About Subspace

 
When I observe my submissives going into subspace, they exhibit traits which I put broadly into two categories, physical, and emotional. These two traits may appear together or separately in varying degrees, but each is always accompanied by at least a hint of the other.
 
 

1. The Physical

 
The physical trait is something I often regard as being “stoned” on subspace, because they seem totally intoxicated, high (possibly on endorphines and/or endocannabinoid neurotransmitters), and euphoric. My submissive kvetch often refers to this feeling as “buzzing”. Sometimes when I try to speak to him when he’s in this state, the most he can bring himself to say (if he can speak at all) is something like:

“kvetch isn’t here right now, please leave a message”.

lol.
 
 

2. The Emotional

 
One of the emotional traits is mostly recognisable by the fact that the total and sole focus of the submissive seems to become an overwhelming (more than usual) desire to serve and please their dominant, to the complete exclusion of all else. This can often include the submissive offering (and indeed, begging to be permitted) to do things which had previously been expressed as hard limits.

I feel that it’s extremely important for Me to maintain a clear awareness of which limits I am being asked to allow them to transgress at those times, so that I may maintain the limits on the submissive’s behalf.

Another characteristic of this emotional side of subspace, is that any sexual inhibitions which the submissive had before, will be completely gone during the time they’re in this state. The pleasure they take in their own desires would appear to be completely guilt free for the length of time in which they inhabit subspace.
 
 

3. Is Subspace A Trance State?

 
As for whether subspace is like being in a trance state, I feel pretty confident that subspace is an altered state of consciousness, but so are a lot of things which aren’t also trance states. It’s likely that subspace shares some characteristics with trance states, but whether one is like the other, I couldn’t categorically say.

I feel pretty sure that the chemical rush generated by the brain and experienced by the brain and the body in subspace is a rather more intense experience than being in a trance state, even a deep trance state.

I have put kvetch into both subspace and trance states, and he agrees with me that subspace is by far the more intense of the two.
 
 

The Links

 
These are some sort of technical-ish descriptions of subspace, which are fairly easy to read.

These are some descriptions written by submissives of their own experiences of subspace.

All those links together seem to kind of combine to represent what My observations of subspace have been like.