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The crystal is swinging back and forth. Alisa stares at it. She wants to stare at it. She wants it to work so bad. It has been a long day and she is looking forward to relaxing and going mindless for a while. The crystal is swinging back and forth and her eyes are following it. The binaural beats fill her mind and the commanding voice is pushing on her consciousness. Pushing her thought away. It feels so good to just give in and let go. Her feet begin to tingle first, and then her arms and legs are gone. She is floating. The voice fills her mind and she is no longer registering what is being said to her dazed mind. It is all spinning. And flowing. And sinking… and… The doorbell rings. It's one of the most disruptive and devastating sounds imaginable right now. Not only does it disturb her trance, but it also means she might have to go up and open the door. Move her body. Move. She doesn't want to. Perhaps the person at the door would just go away if she didn't answer. That would

Elly stared at the flashing spiral. It truly was impossible not to. The patterns and pulses pressed on her mind, keeping her attention locked. "Just... focus.... and relax...." Carolyn's calm voice told her. Elly didn't think about it much. She felt her thoughts drifting away, her body becoming heavy and still. It was strangely comforting, as if she was being lulled into a deep dream. “Good girl.. so sleepy… so fixated… so relaxed… so focused…” Her eyelids grew heavy and soon she could barely keep them open, even as the spiral continued to rotate in her vision. She was so mesmerized by the spiral’s rhythm that her mind no longer produced many thoughts of its own. The voice droned on, but Elly didn’t think about that either. It was just there. Gently pressing her mind deeper into the comfort. The voice soothed her and the spiral transfixed her. “Good girl… you are responding so well… we will count down once again, and when I now reach zero, you will…” All the concerns

Elly always looked forward to visiting her childhood friend Sarah, especially now that she had moved out of town for college and didn't get to see her as often. So when Sarah invited her to spend the weekend at her home in their hometown, Elly eagerly accepted. But during Friday evening, as they settled in to watch movies and catch up, Sarah's phone rang with an urgent call from work. Deeply apologizing, Sarah had to rush out and take the night shift, leaving Elly alone in the house with her mother, Carolyn. As Elly sat on the couch, feeling disappointed and a little bit anxious, Carolyn approached with a sympathetic smile. "I'm sorry you have to stay here on your own. Is there anything I can get you to make you more comfortable?" She offered a friendly grin before adding, "Sarah won't be back until tomorrow morning, but you've been here many times before. I'm sure you'll feel just as at home." And Elly did feel just as home in this house. As a child, she spent many days and

That night Erica’s heart was pounding with excitement. She was once again alone in her room, lights closed, the curtains were drawn shielding her from the outside world. Her family had just moved upstairs to go to bed, and Erica was alone on the ground floor. Hands almost trembling as she typed her username and password into the login page of HypnoFun, an online community for hypnosis enthusiasts. Hypnosis had been a fascination for Erica for as long as she could remember, but yesterday, when she had just discovered this website (and of course immediately signed up) was the first time she had actually been hypnotized by a person, and not just an audio-file or YouTube video. It had been amazing, and her mind was still recovering. ”Damn it,” Erica swore to herself after she managed to type the wrong password a second time. She felt excited to the point where her hands had a hard time pressing the correct keys to type her login. Erica felt her heart beat faster and sweat drip down her