I was having real problems studying this year. The classes were boring, and with all the stress I was under, I just wasn't able to keep myself focused. A friend of mine recommended a woman named Alexis off campus that had hypnotized her. Initially it was just for studying, but it was so successful that my friend went back for healthy eating, exercise, self-confidence and anything else. My friend just couldn't stop talking about it.
People had tried to hypnotize me in the past, and I never got it. It just didn't work on me. My friend said that this woman boasted a 100% success rate. She was a little expensive, but what did I have to lose.
When I got there, Alexis opened the door. She was tall and gorgeous, even dressed in sweats and a t-shirt. She offered me a glass of wine. I asked if that would interfere with the hypnosis. She said one glass would be fine, and she had to put something on the stove while we talked.
We were sitting on her couch sipping wine, when suddenly I saw through the opening into her kitchen, a huge plume of white smoke billowing up from the stove and making a rolling cloud on the ceiling, quickly filling the small kitchen, flowing out the doorway, seeping out of the kitchen opening, and curling slow and thick into the room. I jumped up, yelling "what is that?" I looked at Alexis and she just looked at me. It appeared as if a smoke bomb had gone off in the kitchen and was filling her apartment.
Alexis seemed totally unfazed. She was more interested watching me with a strange smirk, than the fact that we were both about to be asphyxiated by her lack of cooking skills. "It's part of the experience, just relax," she said.
"Alex, seriously, what's going on, that's dangerous! We need to get out! Call the fire department or something!"
She said nothing, her smile getting wider. The cloud was now rolling out the door of the kitchen and along the floor, and the entryway to her apartment was completely hidden in the clouds. Where her front door was, there was a cumulus formation. The fog was so thick it looked like you could touch it.
"It's nothing to worry about, but if you're so freaked out, just go through that could and leave through the front door or you could sit here and watch. You can see I'm not worried about it," she motioned to the expanding cloud, to a door we could no longer see.