it’s 2126 (or something) and there are pill-sized neural transponders that crawl up the back of your throat & can show you vivid dreams of anything you ask for. well, the legal ones won’t let you imagine touching anyone…yet unapproved (unleashed) ones aren’t hard to find.

a teacher wonders out loud if she could be hypnotized to “sleepwalk” through her last two classes of the day, feeling perfectly calm & not feeling bothered by a thing.

you, having read much about hypnosis, attend a hypnosis show. you’re certain that you can’t be hypnotized in a stage setting, since you already know everything a hypnotist might do.

I met a hypnotist from the internet.

Things get real fast.