Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale
Greater minds than mine have put a lot of thought over the years into tests which can simply show how deeply hypnotised someone is. One of the most respected is the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale[1], which basically is a series of tests graded from easy to challenging, and which can give you a good feel for what you'll be able to achieve with someone. Details of what to say and do are in the Scale.
Before trying any of these with your partner, make sure you are very comfortable with hypnotising, and both giving commands to, and cancelling commands you have given to your partner. The cancelling part is most important because the tests include things like them being unable to bend their arm, or imagining they're being bothered by a mosquito, and neither of these are things you want to persist after you've finished the tests and they're awake again.
Here is the list of tests from Stanford. I'll look at and explain some of these more closely below.
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Mosquito Hallucination
This causes your partner to imagine that they are being bothered by a mosquito. This is what is called a positive hallucination, namely imaging something which isn't there. This is one of the early tests and indicates at least a light trance. In sexual terms, this shows that they'll probably be able to experience increased physical sexual feelings, such as being more sensitive to touch, etc.
Arm Rigidity
This test causes your partner's arm to become rigid and they may find it difficult or impossible to bend it. This can be a good indicator that your partner will be physically able to participate in sexual sessions with you while they are in a trance. Lighter trances than this tend to leave them just very relaxed and not very capable of actual physical involvement. At this level they can start to become more involved (such as kissing and touching).
Age Regression
This test is where your partner imagines that they are back in their school years. How effective this is can indicate how well sexual fantasies are going to work, i.e., how involved they'll be able to get in imagined sexual scenarios, such as making love in public[2].
Anosmia to Ammonia
This test causes your partner to not react to intensely unpleasant smells like cleaning ammonia or strong peppermint oil. Success here indicates they'll very likely strongly respond to your commands to feel things which aren't actually happening, such as to feel themselves being penetrated when they actually aren't being penetrated.
Negative Visual Hallucination
This type of test is where the imagine something isn't there when it actually is. This can be useful, sexually speaking, when you want them to imagine that they are feeling less stimulation then they are actually getting. This can help, for example, when a guy tends to come too quickly by getting him to have less intense feelings, thus slowing him down a little.
Post-hypnotic amnesia
This is where, for a short time, your partner doesn't remember something which happened during the trance after they've woken up. This can be useful if you have given them one or more post-hypnotic suggestions to respond to in the future and you don't want them to know about them until afterwards.