A Backwards Induction...?
by Realm_of_Mindfulness
“Before we begin, I need you to wake up.”
Emma blinked in confusion, her friend sitting across from her. “What do you mean? I just got here. We’re just getting started.”
Michelle smiled coyly, almost expectantly. “Are we? Tell me something Emma; you came to me. You texted me, correct?”
“Well, yeah-”
Michelle cut her off “Correct. You came to me for this. I imagine you asked for my help because you knew, or at least had an idea of my abilities, yes?”
Emma thought it over and nodded. It did make sense when she put it that way.
Michelle nodded with her. “Exactly; so, I need you to wake up for me.”
“But I’m not sure how, I don’t think I’m hypnotized yet. I don’t feel it-”
“Correct sweetie, you don’t think. You don’t feel, because you’re hypnotized right now. For me to hypnotize you again, I need you to wake up.”
Emma stammered, her confidence wavering. “But I-....I’m not-”
“Awake right now. As I said, you don’t think. You don’t feel. You’re hypnotized right now.” Michelle’s voice softening, still carrying that almost piercing confidence that came with every word she said. She was starting to win Emma over, and she knew it as her smile widened.
Emma shifted in her spot on the couch, finding herself unable to look anywhere except Michelle’s eyes. She could feel Michelle’s words entering the deepest parts of her brain.
You don’t think. You don’t feel. You’re hypnotized right now.
Her argument slipping away as the words began to change her mind. With the last parts of her slipping out, she managed a weak “I’m-” as if making a futile attempt to bat them away.
“Hypnotized. Yes dear, you are. You are deeply hypnotized. That’s what you came here for. Why you reached out to me.” Michelle, grinning from ear to ear, sat up on her knees to rise above her hypnotized friend. “There’s no need to fight anymore. No need to argue because you finally see the truth, and you can admit it can’t you? Go ahead and say it. Once you do, you’ll be able to let go. To finally give in. To sink for me. That’s what you want. It’s what you’ve wanted all along.”
Emma let out a barely audible sigh of relief as the words “I’m deeply hypnotized...”. That was the last thing she heard before falling forward into Michelle’s lap, finally accepting the truth laid out before her.