Subspace is one of those aspects of the Dom/sub experience that few people truly understand, and even fewer appreciate its power. It’s the power source at the center of Hierarchical exchanges. Without subspace, there would be no ability for a Dominant to overpower and control a submissive, to break into their minds, or help them achieve a sense of purpose in service.
One Alpha recently compared subspace to hypnosis, and the comparison is apt. Like hypnosis, bringing a submissive into subspace involves control and skill, but also great responsibility. In deeper levels of subspace a submissive’s mind and heart unlock, its resistance fades, and many things thought unimaginable become possible.
If I sound a little mystical about subspace, it’s for good reason. Mishandled subspace has led to broken and destroyed lives. On the other hand, carefully nurtured subspace can lead to tremendous fulfillment.
WHAT IS SUBSPACE?
This is a definition I quite like:
Subspace is a metaphor for the state the submissive’s minds and bodies are in during a deeply involving play scene. Many types of BDSM play invoke strong physical responses. The mental aspect of BDSM also causes many submissives to mentally separate themselves from their environment as they process the experience. Deep subspace is often characterized as a state of deep recession and incoherence. Deep subspace may also cause a danger in newer submissives who are unfamiliar with the experience, and require the dominant to keep a careful watch to ensure the submissive isn’t placing him or herself in danger. Many submissives require aftercare.
Notice the disassociative quality of subspace, this disconnection of the mind from the body. This is caused by a very natural process in the body ordinarily triggered by dangerous circumstances.
WHY DOES SUBSPACE OCCUR?
When a human being is confronted by some dramatic or traumatic moment, the body releases chemicals into the blood stream as part of a process known as the “fight or flight” response. Endorphins and enkephalins are dumped into the bloodstream, producing a weightless, out-of-body rush of pleasure. This can last for hours afterward.
This dump of endorphins can occur during pleasurable-but-taxing sexual experiences such as being fucked or sucking dick just as easily as it can during violent and aggressive situations like rape.
THE EFFECTS OF SUBSPACE
It’s the “fight or flight” response shielding that allows faggots (who are extremely submissive males) to perform tremendous (and occasionally shocking and extreme) acts of service. While in “fight or flight”-induced subspace faggots are extremely open to suggestion and will often mindlessly do things that they might never do in their everyday life.
More from the definition of subspace above:
Producing a sort of trance-like state due to the increase of hormones and chemicals, the submissive starts to feel out-of-body, detached from reality, and as the high comes down, and the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, a deep exhaustion, as well as incoherence. Many submissives once reaching a height of subspace will lose all sensation of pain, as any stimulus causes the period to prolong.
This detachment from reality allows subs and faggots to go much farther in risky behaviors. We see this extreme behavior quite readily in findom. Faggots deep in subspace have surrendered many thousands of dollars in financial drains to online Alphas, only to regret it once they snap out of it.
HOW CAN WE DEFINE “PERPETUAL SUBSPACE”?
I’ve been owned multiple times in my life, including a few stints as a live-in faggot. To accomplish this, I had to get into a state I call “perpetual subspace” (another term could be “persistent subspace”). It’s sort of a low-level, neverending state of subspace in which the faggot is on a constant high due to even the most mundane of tasks (like doing the dishes, or cleaning a bathroom). The faggot’s Master is never far from the faggot’s mind during the course of every day while in perpetual subspace. Everything the faggot does goes to honor its Master.
I liken perpetual subspace to a type of white noise that drives a faggot forward in constant service to its Owner. Think of it in the same terms as listening to the sound of rain or other types of background noise in order to fall asleep. Perpetual subspace is that low-level hum by which the faggot accomplishes much in service.
PERPETUAL SUBSPACE – THE IDEAL STATE
Whenever I was owned in my life and in a state of perpetual subspace, I felt comforted and at peace. My worries were few since my Master took care of me and all I truly focused on were the tasks that my Master expected me to accomplish. Regardless of how menial they were, each task brought me satisfaction because I knew it was pleasing to my Master.
It was easy to keep me in perpetual subspace once it began. My Master running his fingers through my hair and telling me I was a “good boy” or a “good faggot” was enough to sustain the state in me for weeks. Sexual service/worship sessions were obviously part of that as well. All of these stimuli combined to keep me under perpetual subspace, a state that allowed me to accomplish a lot in service, as well as remain pliable to suggestions when my Master wanted to share me with his friends or make me do things I might not ordinarily do (piss drinking and ass licking experiences started under perpetual subspace of a Master).
For Alphas and Masters, perpetual subspace should be the goal. It is the ultimate level of power, for you hold the total life of the faggot under your control.