It happened One Day on the Couch 

“Alright Terri, just clear your mind and…” 

 Terri was stretched out on the couch, yoga pants and tank top hanging off her lithe body. She was skinny in that fit sort of way that girls who love cardio and salad were, and that was her problem. Melissa watched her close her eyes and sort of squint like she was wringing out her brain like a wet washcloth.  “Actually, you know, let’s move over to the recliner.” 

 Melissa watched her pretty blond friend stand up and stretch out a little as she walked the few paces over to the plush black leather chair. One of her instructors, a women named Whitney who had the most amazing hypnosis technique, told her that having your subject move after they think they’re settled is a good way of reinforcing the authoritative modality of the hypnotist. Terri would need the nudge; she wasn’t exactly the highly suggestible type. 

 “You know,” Melissa sort of laughed when she continued, “I used to think these were just grandpa chairs, something you’d fall asleep on while you were watching football. I mean, you know what I mean, you’ve seen that before right?” 

 The question with the affirmation attached to it, and the evocative imagery of lazy and peaceful moments was purely intentional. 

 “Well, I had to get one at the end of my last series of classes because they’re so comfortable.” She was creating the expectation that the chair would be a pleasant experience, and once Terri was settled, Melissa would reaffirm the expectation. 

 Terri reclined and pulled the handle. The chair clicked back and she stretched her arms over her head again. 

 The pretty blond had little nervous motions she was working through.  

The stretch shifted the soft blue fabric of her tank top, her breasts pushed together, accidently enhancing her cleavage. She had a full enough chest for a skinny girl. It was something Melissa had noticed when they first met. 

 That was something girls noticed about each other all the time, a fun little secret they would share with boys for a cheap laugh and a glimpse into the world of women. 

 They had tried a little bit of hypnosis a few weeks before in the break room, and while Terri had a little bit of success, it didn’t work as well as either one of them had hoped. Trying again at Melissa’s was actually the slightly too stressed out blonde’s idea. A way to get Melissa some more practice, a way to help Terri relax, a way to become better friends. 

 Terri didn’t know what Melissa had done to their co-worker Jay, and they weren’t quite good enough friends for that talk even though Terri had unwittingly played an important role in how it all came together.  “My uncle always fell asleep on the recliner to get out of helping clean up at holidays.” Terri smiled and laughed as she said this. She was following the subtle bait the hypnotist had offered, her mind associating like experiences with the chair. 

 “I bet you would too if you ever had a turn to get the chair wouldn’t you?” 

 Melissa played with the small sparkling crystal hanging just above her breasts. She was in a long gray

skirt and a thin white sweater. Her hair was up, her glasses were on, and even though this was a casual girls day in, the look and the manner were an important part of creating the right environment.  Before her friend could answer, Melissa let her voice bathe in the tender warmth of nostalgia. “I bet you would probably have been woken up to help clean up, but that’s what I love about being an adult, being in charge of your life, your days, your choices. I think it’s easy to forget we’re the ones who make our own time to relax, our own time to decompress.” 

 She watched Terri sigh a slight resigned sort of sigh. Melissa knew she’d have to pay more attention to Terri’s body language than her words, since she would say the right things, the things she wanted to feel while what she was feeling would feel wrong, or foolish, or like she wasn’t being cooperative. 

It just came with the territory, Terri was a Type A person a doer, a do it right the first time kind of girl so she would 

 “This is your time to decompress Tammy, your time to relax. You’re comfortable here, you can let yourself relax.” 

 * * * 

 Melissa’s voice really had a charm to it. It was gentle and easy to listen to, warm and really understanding. Terri felt the sweetness in her friend’s words. 

 It was nice to be understood, finally. 

 The last few guys she dated weren’t very decent listeners. They were all just high power alpha male, full-speed-ahead guys that didn’t understand how her little stresses were all adding up into a bigger and bigger ball of tension. 

 Yoga, cleanses, living gluten free, none of it cut any of her worries down. 

 And, it wasn’t exactly easy for her to stay friends with other women either. She had a few girlfriends, but most of them lived out of state, or had kids now and had become “boring” for lack of a better term.  It hadn’t taken long for her and Melissa to start having lunch once they started talking, but girl friendship was a minefield. You never knew if you were friends or “frenemies”, whether or not you were spending time together because you were in the same place, or because you liked being around each other. Terri had a good feeling about Melissa though, she seemed pretty genuine. 

 And also, and this was kind of terrible, even though Melissa did have a killer rack, she was still a plump girl, and there would be no guy competition. If a guy thought she was cute, there’s no way he would be into Terri’s type, and she knew perky blond was a lot more popular than, well, Melissa. 

 At least, that was the safer bet. 

 But, as Terri felt the soft black leather of the chair under her arms, she tried to think about the first thing Melissa said, “Just clear your mind.” 

 It was a wonderful idea, a clear mind. But, if she could do that, then her life would be so much easier.  “This is your time to decompress Terri, your time to relax. You’re comfortable here, you can let yourself relax.” 

 There was a lull in the way those words rolled out across her mind, and Melissa was right, she really was comfortable in the chair. 

 “Like when you lower yourself into a nice hot bath, and your muscles melt on their own, and your eyes close all on their own, muscle memory, instinct.”

 Terri felt her eyelids close as she let out a sigh. It was so easy to picture that experience. It was muscle memory. 

 “I love taking baths.” 

 Terri smiled, and agreed. 

 “I do too” were the first words she had said in the last few minutes. Then she realized how quiet she had been and started to say thank you. 

 All of this human warmth and the way Melissa was almost leeching the tension out of her with her soothing voice and it really was helping Terri to decompress. 

 But, before she could get the words out, Melissa’s voice came across her in another warm wave.  “You don’t have to say anything if you don’t want to. This is your time and we’re here to help you relax. If you’re feeling good, or thankful for this experience, then instead of trying to clear your mind, maybe you can simply soak in these good feelings.” 

 It was so easy for her to imagine soaking in the warmth. 

 “You could fill your mind with these good feelings, letting them fill you like hot water in the tub. Sometimes, when people have a difficult time being peaceful with themselves, it’s easier for them to think of abstractions, to create a little distance.” 

 Terri found it easier and easier to follow Melissa’s reasoning, feeling the inherent logic of her statements building to some answer she couldn’t quite grasp yet. 

 “Take a deep breathe in Terri, and as you exhale, imagine your feet feeling a soothing warmth building in them, imagine them filling just like the cool white bathtub fills with relaxing hot water. Like tipping your toes into the tub and feeling the relaxation spreading as you sink down.” 

 Terri tried to sort out the two separate images, but found herself pulled into the clear sensation of warm relaxation. 

 “The heat sinks down through your toes and up into your ankles, relaxing more and more as you sink in, relaxing more and more as the heat starts to rise. Let yourself feel the warmth massaging the balls of your feet, each toe loosening one by one, ten tense toes melting down as the warmth goes up, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and all the stress in your feet is gone, just warmth, just relaxation now. It feels nice doesn’t it Terri?” 

 She realized she had dipped into daydream and wasn’t sure what Melissa was asking. She sighed a little, feeling the smile one her face widen just slightly. 

 “Sometimes when we realize we’re relaxing we can lose the feeling, and we try to chase it, but it flickers away like our shadow, or the a candle’s flame. When I sink down into the warm hot water, I love lighting a candle and watching the steam float up and up, just like you can let your relaxation float up your calves, and deep into your thighs, unlocking all those muscles, letting the heat sink in, like a key in a lock, like you can unlock all of the tension in your legs with a nice deep breath in, and a long deep breath out.”  The pretty blonde didn’t decide to take that breath, but as the air left her lungs in a long slow sigh, she felt every muscle from her hips to her toes loosen. 

 It felt nice, and unknown to her, when she realized that if she continued to let this happen she would feel even better, she was doing just what Melissa wanted her to. She heard the next few words, remembering a sense of warmth melting the tension in her stomach, and then she drifted away.

 * * * 

 Melissa watched her friend sinking down into trance faster than she could have predicted. Seeing how fully Terri was embracing the progressive relaxation induction, Melissa continued on from her stomach to her back, her arms, and hands, and shoulders, her neck, and head, then her face. 

 Piece by piece, leaving her still and peaceful. 

 “You are deeply hypnotized now Terri, say yes if you understand.” 

 She moaned, and the hypnotist felt something stir as she did. 

 “Terri, do you enjoy this feeling?” 

 The same soft sound of pleasure escaped her lips again. Melissa was surprised that she was responding to such a basic approach, but it made sense. The girl needed to let go, so letting go piece by piece really did make sense. 

 “Listen to me very carefully Terri, I would like to take you deeper into trance if you would let me. If you want me to hypnotize you more deeply say yes please.” 

 The pretty blonde slurred the two words into one pleading consent. 

 “That’s very good Terri, you’re being an excellent subject and it will be very easy for you to go into an even deeper trance now. All you need to do is find your secret stress and unlock it. When you find your secret stress, you’ll feel one hundred times more relaxed, and one hundred times better than you feel right now. And that’s what you want isn’t it Terri? If it is, say yes please for me.” 

 Those same two syllables of consent came out in a lower more desperate tone. She was pleading, gently softly pleading for more. 

 Melissa hadn’t consciously planned on using the phrase “yes please” but somehow something about seeing Terri melting away made her feel like saying it. Melissa felt it, she knew her friend would respond to those words. 

 “It’s important that I ask you these things because hypnosis can only help you to do what you want to do. When you say yes, you are showing yourself what you want to feel and what you want to do. You understand and you know this is what you want isn’t it?” 

 There was another pleading moan. 

 All the tension in the girl’s life, all the stress, had truly deeply constricted her. That this was the first moment she could feel free and uninhibited, was unlocking her inhibitions, mixing the relief with another form of release. 

 ‘Terri, your secret stress is hiding in your body. Your mind has manifest it into a physical block, your mental tension has become physical tension. What do you do to release and relax Terri?”  The girl’s face became slightly strained. 

 “It’s okay honey, let go and let me teach you a new way to relax. Let yourself breathe in nice and deep, and as you breathe out imagine yourself forgetting all of your tension. You can forget it, like something you left off your to do list, you’re a wonderful and powerful woman and you can decide to do what you want to do. You get to decide to forget Terri, decide to forget.” 

 Melissa watched Terri’s face go slack and her body sink back down into the chair. She watched as Terri let you a long sigh then, out of nowhere the pretty blonde opened her eyes. 

 * * *

 “What’s going on? Did I fall asleep?” Terri felt warm and sleepy as she realized she must have fallen asleep. 

 “Sort of,” she looked at her friend who was smiling, “you were in a very deep trance and you just snapped out of it.” 

 Terri stretched and yawned and felt like she wanted to go back to sleep. “Do you know why? I don’t feel like I wanted to snap out of it.” 

 “Sometimes when a suggestion is in direct contrast with a person they can come out of trance. I asked you to forget about your stresses and you did for a second then you woke up.” As Melissa spoke, Terri closed her eyes and tried to hold on to the fleeting sensation of nearly mindless floating. 

 “It doesn’t sound like something I’d argue with.” And it didn’t. It sounded just like something she really wanted. 

It actually sounded exactly like what Terri wanted. 

“Well, I think you’re so stressed out that you’re stressed out about being stressed out. I think it’s so deep in there that you don’t know how to disconnect that part of yourself and your identity, so when I asked you to forget it, your subconscious didn’t know how to cope and you woke up.” 

Terri realized the feeling was essentially gone and she had sat up all the way while Melissa was explaining. “Wow, it sounds like I need a shrink doesn’t it?” 

Melissa smiled. She looked so formal and so serious, but sweet too. “If you’d like to try something, I have an idea that might work. Or, we could drink some wine instead.” 

“Wine does sound good but,” and Terri was surprised at herself for saying this, “I’d love to try it again if you think it will work.” 

Even though the feeling had gone, there was a lingering heaviness, a pleasant, latent feeling she could almost hold on to. Terri really had been too stressed out for too long. 

“Do you remember what we did in the break room Terri?” Melissa had taken off her crystal and was dangling it in front of Terri’s eyes. 

* * * 

“We had you focus on the crystal, and you can watch it swing back and forth, that’s it, you can watch it with your eyes, just your eyes just like before, and as you watch you can listen to the sound of my voice even as your eyes are already starting to grow heavier and heavier. I’m going to hypnotize you Terri, that’s what is happening right now, I am hypnotizing you. I am telling your conscious and unconscious mind that you are being hypnotized, and your unconscious mind will realize that as soon as your eyes close you are falling under my influence. This is very direct and it is very powerful for you. When your eyes close, you will be falling under my influence and nothing can stop this from happening.” 

Melissa felt a damp tinge between her legs, it was how she felt when she heard her friend say “Yes please”, and it was how she felt when she hypnotized and seduced Jay. It turned her on, but she didn’t really have any designs on Terri, this was just to help her relax. Of course, there was one way in particular Melissa thought she could help in that regard. 

“Your eyes are getting heavier and heavier, your mind is getting sleepier and sleepier, you’re feeling so dreamy, so sleepy and so dreamy. You’re falling under my influence, just like a volunteer for a stage hypnotist. You want to participate, you want to fall under my influence and let me take the reigns. This is what you want,

and your eyes are so heavy now, so sleepy and so heavy, you just want to let go and be a part of the act. That’s right, let go, close your eyes and sleep Terri, deep sleep.” 

* * * 

The crystal’s steady swinging rhythm back and forth just above her eyes and Melissa’s strong and smothering, forcefully really, voice was enough to overwhelm her. Terri didn’t know a whole lot about what was happening, but it felt like if she hadn’t wanted it so much this wouldn’t have worked on her at all. 

There was something comforting about the way Melissa was talking about her unconscious, the way she was talking about forces outside of Terri’s control. It made closing her eyes feel so much easier. It was easy in the first place though. 

That little taste of letting go and the natural fatigue of her eyes angling up to follow the crystal were more than enough to compel her to cooperate. Then, her eyes closed right on cue, and it started to feel like layers of dense nothingness were mounting up and up on her mind, and she was getting swallowed in the sound of Melissa’s voice. 

Through the heaviness she heard Melissa saying the word sleep over and over again. Every time she said it, the word sounded different and it felt different. At times it was like a gentle tickle of exhaustion in the back of her mind, other times it felt like a warm hug, and then it felt like an irresistible order. 

It felt like something outside of her was commanding her to sleep and she had no choice but to obey. The last threads of wakeful though were snipped and she fell out of herself and down into the depths of Melissa’s voice. 

Then, she was slowly opening her eyes and blinking. 

Melissa had taken off her sweater and she was wearing a white spaghetti strapped tank-top. Terri found her eyes lingering on the crystal that was dangling down into Melissa rather deep cleavage. Her friend was toying with the chain right above the crystal, and as Terri was about to ask what had happened, or how long she had been out, the crystal dropped, Melissa said “Sleep” and Terri fell away into the darkness again. 

Then she was opening her eyes, and as soon as they fluttered open and Terri found herself taking a deep breath, Melissa told her to “Sleep”, her eye closed, she exhaled, and was once more down under the deepening darkness. 

* * * 

Every time Melissa brought Terri back up and put her back under she reinforced that everything that was happening was beyond her control. Melissa was surprised that the more cliché she became with her language the more and more Terri responded to her. 

It wasn’t so much that she had fallen under Melissa’s control, it was that in hearing things phrased this way, Terri’s tension finally let go of its stranglehold enough for her to decompress just a little and let go a little more. Every time she came up then went back down, it wasn’t just the fractionation technique, it was the repetition of her self control being overridden. It didn’t matter that it was all a willing suspension of disbelief, it mattered that it worked. 

It had gotten hot for Melissa in her apartment. 

Saying the words she said, things like “You’re falling deeper under my power” and ‘whenever you hear me and only me say the word sleep you will fall down into my hypnotic control”, and seeing the pretty girl

respond had made her more than a little wet. 

Seeing Terri asleep in the sound of her voice was enough to make Melissa want to rub one off as quickly as she could, but the buxom hypnotist told herself this wasn’t about that. It was about helping Terri, and she was going to help her friend have a very profound and powerful experience. 

“You are deeply hypnotized Terri. Your unconscious mind is open and suggestible to my voice and the power of my words. You want me to be in control, and it feels so good to let me be in control. The sound of my voice is freeing you from all of your thoughts, my words are stronger than all of your tensions, and I am going to guide you deeper down, falling deeper and deeper under my power with every word that I speak, down into a place where your mind and boy will have no choice but to relax and release.” 

She watched Terri’s face, perfectly relaxed and smooth just like her steady near catatonic breathing, as she spoke. “That’s very good Terri, you’re being a very good girl for me. You’re so agreeable, so powerless to disobey me now, such a good girl.” 

The words good girl seemed to send a wave through Terri. Melissa watched her lips tug at a smile before melting back into passive relaxation when she heard those words. “Good girl Terri, it feels so freeing and so nice to be a good girl and to obey me. Be a good girl and follow all of my suggestions now. This is what you need Terri, you want to obey me, you have to obey me, it isn’t up to you anymore.” 

“You are going to breathe deep and slow for me now, and every breath you take is going to help your mind and body find the deepest stresses and where you carry them. As you breathe in you will feel a deep warmth in your core, and as you exhale this warmth will spread out throughout your entire body. The warmth will wash away your lesser tensions, and every breathe will send the warmth deeper into your core. Breathe in and out and feel how good this feels.” 

Melissa watched Terri’s breath become heavier and more purposeful. She watched as the blonde girl moaned slightly as the suggestions of deep heat began to do their work. “There is a very deep tension in your body Terri, a very special tension that you will be able to release, and when you do it will feel so wonderful that the pleasure will wash everything else away. Focus your breathing and feel the heat sinking into your center, feel its softness working deeper and deeper. Let the heat penetrate you, let it push gently into the core of your tension.” 

Terri was responding to the suggestion, but she was also responding to the tone of Melissa’s voice. She let her words become softer, more sensual, her intonations were gentle and dripping with tender eroticism. She wanted Terri to feel like the arousal was her own idea, that it was simply beautiful and natural. Some women could experience a touch-less orgasm from mental masturbation, Melissa had started to lead Terri hopefully into doing just that. 

“Imagine every breath you breathe out is a golden fire that slips down from your lips and deep into your core. Let the warmth and the heat slip deeper into you, let the pleasure of your deep tensions starting to melt consume you. You can start to feel it, you can feel the deep physical pleasure of working your way towards release.” 

Melissa had found herself almost mindlessly starting to touch her own nipple. Her right hand was cupping her own breast, pinching herself through her shirt and her bra. She really hadn’t planned on making things sexual, but something had woken up in Melissa and now she couldn’t help herself. It also helped that the people she’d ended up playing with really seemed to have wanted it deep down inside.

“Focus on the pleasure Terri, see the golden flame building and building, you’re such a good girl, it’s so easy to feel this pleasure. Sometimes when people are stressed out Terri, sometimes they masturbate, and masturbation can release so much stress. The pleasure you’re feeling can be ten times stronger than the most wonderful stress releasing sensation. Feel it Terri.” 

Melissa watched as her subject moaned and began to gently pant. Her body was stock still but there was color in her cheeks as her groans grew longer and louder and her pants sharper and harder. “That’s it Terri, good girl, give in to the pleasure. Nothing can stop it now, the stress is draining away, your body is letting go and releasing all of its tension now in one sweet release. Let it go Terri, be a good girl and release.” 

Terri moaned, and cried out a wordless gasp of relief and ecstasy as her whole body shuddered. Tears trickled down her face as she opened her eyes. 

“Oh my god. I, oh my god, what was that?” 

* * * 

As Terri opened her eyes she felt like her whole body was soaking in an invisible bath. She also realized her panties were soaked but she felt so good it didn’t really matter. 

“You had an intense mental release and?” Terri didn’t want to move, she didn’t want to sit up, she just ran her fingers up and down her arms like she was drunk on the pleasure that was still lingering in waves. “And you might have also manifested an intense physical release.” 

Melissa was smiling at her, “Sometimes that happens. How do you feel?” 

“Good. I feel wonderful. I feel so much better.” Terri felt herself talking, feeling the words falling out, honest, raw, and she was giggling. “Did you do that to me on purpose?’ 

Terri’s eyes were drawn back down to the crystal between Melissa’s breasts. “No, I would never do something like that. I was guiding you through some deep relaxation and, well, I guess your body knew what it needed. Relax Terri, relax.” 

She felt the urge to close her eyes again. Melissa had been toying with the crystal and it had been gently rising and falling out of her cleavage as she spoke. The word relax was so soft and so soothing, it was such an understanding word. Terri didn’t fight it, she just closed her eyes. 

* * * 

Melissa let her modality change as soon as Terri closed her eyes again. Instead of sounding like a hypnotist she put on the same voice she used in the rest of her life. “It isn’t every day you have a hypno orgasm is it?” 

Terri laughed a little, she was still half-way-under despite how awake she seemed to be. “I guess not.” Terri had a nice laugh. 

“Did you like it?” Melissa was so casual the way she said it, she was hoping it wouldn’t sound weird. “I, wow, I guess I did.” Terri was laughing as she said it. 

“Look at my crystal Terri, be a good girl and look at my crystal.” Melissa watched as Terri’s eyes opened as she followed instructions despites starting to ask what was happening. 

“Don’t worry, don’t think, just look at the crystal and release for me Terri.” 

Melissa was raising and dropping the crystal in and out of her cleavage intentionally. She’d noticed the way Terri would stare at her breasts sometimes. It really was something girls did, but Terri seemed accidently

obsessed with them sometimes. 

As the pretty blonde heard the word release she gasped a little then moaned and sighed. “Oh my god, how did you do that?” 

The orgasm that had instantly rocked her had shaken Terri from the trance she had sunk back into, and Melissa smiled. “I just told you to release.” 

Again Melissa watched Terri have an instantaneous climax. 

“Sleep Terri, that’s enough for now, deep sleep.” 

* * * 

Terri got out of the shower and felt great. She’d woken up feeling like she was in a bit of a sweat and Melissa had told her she’d throw her clothes in the washing machine and that she could take a shower. She stepped out into the hall in a robe. 

“So you really did a number on me didn’t you?” 

Melissa was sitting on the couch drinking wine and watching TV. 

“You went pretty deep and I think we made some real progress.” 

It was funny, when Terri was in there she couldn’t stop thinking about Melissa’s tits, or the way she always wore her little crystal dangling there. It wasn’t the first time Terri had been attracted to a girl, but she’d never really thought of Melissa like that. It felt dirty to masturbate thinking about the woman whose shower you were using. 

“I guess I did.” She bit her lip, something was going on in her mind, something she never would have guessed she would have done or wanted to do, and she was excited. “Melissa?” 

Terri watched her friend raise a quizzical eyebrow, “Yes?” 

“I want to show you something.” And with that, Terri let her robe fall to the ground.

* * * 

The suggestion was very simple, “If you appreciate how good I made you feel then you’ll want to make me feel good too, and you’ll want to make me feel good in the same way you felt good. If you do, you’ll finally realize how much you love my breasts and you’ll need to show me how much you appreciate how beautiful they are and how good I made you feel.” 

When Terri said she had something to show her, Melissa smiled inside. “I know you do.” But Melissa said those words under her breath.