"Letting your mind and body just stay relaxed... and calm... feeling so peaceful and at ease. And now, taking in a nice, deep breath. And letting your mind start to come back up. 1... Becoming aware of your surroundings, 2... feeling your body moving, stretching out. 3... mind clearing, aware of where you are. 4... Stretching out a bit ready to come back up. And 5... Wide awake." Trisha said with a smile.
Rayne shot upright in her chair like she had just been startled awake. "What the hell?" she thought... "did I just fall asleep in class?
She looked around the room and noticed several people around her all looking at her and giggling a bit. She noticed a few other people were also looking around, confused, as their fellow students pointed and snickered. "What just happened?" she asked herself.
"Well that is all the time we have today..." the professor said, still sitting at his desk and not looking up from his book. "I'd like to thank Trisha for coming down to give us this little demonstration on hypnosis. I hope you found it educational. For Monday read chapter 7... and 8... and 9."
"Hypnosis?" Rayne said out loud, still a bit confused.
"Yup!" Said a rather perky brunette standing up next to her. "You totally got hypnotized!"
As the brunette pushed past the confused Rayne, she whispered out "I did?" She couldn't help but stare at the brunette's butt as she pushed past and even caught herself admiring how nice it looked "What the hell is going on?!" Rayne thought to herself rapidly as the rest of the students pushed past her on their way out of the classroom.
"Great dance, do you perform?" Commented one of the boys as he was walking up the stairs towards the back door.
Rayne was so shocked that all she could do was look at the boy as he walked past the rest of his classmates, pushing him out the door as everyone was eager to get to lunch. "Alright" she thought "there has to be a logical explanation for all of this. I simply fell asleep and they concocted a little gag to make me paranoid. That's all!" At this point she noticed that her pen had fallen off of her tiny little writing slab. She bent down and picked it up, but on her way back up she noticed her notepad and the notes she had taken.
"Open yourself up", the notes started, "experience hypnosis" and "make a decision to be hypnotized now" were all clearly written on the page
"What... the... hell?!" she whispered to herself.
The notes continued line by line before her eyes... "let your hand raise", "let it feel lighter and lighter", "able to float up into the air."
"What is going... " she was cut off when she noticed her other hand was starting to rise up off of her lap and float gently in front of her. "Stop that!" she scolded her own arm without realizing just how ridiculous that was. The arm, like a small puppy that had just made a mess, quickly sank back down to her lap.
She went back to her notes, eyeing her arm suspiciously like she expected it to misbehave again. "OMG! I can't put my arm down! What the heck is going on? How is this possible?"
"I don't remember writing this?" she asked the empty auditorium, before glancing back at her left arm and noticing that it had started to wiggle again. "Stop that!" she shouted then pointed at it with her pen "Stay! ... What the hell am I doing?" She said, realizing she had just yelled at her own arm.
The notes continued to baffle her... "Hypnotized? But hypnosis isn't real! It's all fake how can she be..." Rayne took a deep breath and read on "I'm going to be hypnotized? I'm going to be hypnotized! Am I already hypnotized?! OMG! I'm being hypnotized! I'm being hypno..." the notes ended abruptly.
"What the hell just happened?!" she asked herself again, out loud this time.
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Rayne popped out of the main level door to the auditorium and looked around the halls quickly. "She has to be here." She thought as she started to make her way towards the faculty wing of the building. "Grad student, he called her a grad student. Her name was..." her thought process was cut off as she walked around the corner and went face first into the grad student she was looking for. "Trisha!" She shouted in surprise.
Trisha nearly fell over when Rayne bumped into her and looked down at the shorter girl, "Raynnnnnnn... hi, girl whose name I definitely don't know... " she said, very poorly trying to cover the fact that she knew exactly who Rayne was, but was very surprised to see her right now.
Rayne was too nervous about everything else to notice that Trisha knew her name. "Hi, I was in the class that you just did a demonstration in. I was late but, I... I think I fell asleep in the demonstration and all I have in my notebook is.. well, this..." Rayne showed Trisha the notebook and watched as Trisha seemed to turn red as she was reading through the notebook, mistaking arousal for embarrassment. "I was wondering if you could confirm my theory that someone is just playing a trick on me. I'm really sorry I fell asleep, it has been a long day and a very stressful one. I've been behind on everything..."
Trisha just smiled and motioned for Rayne to enter the grad student office behind her "Well, did you remember the arm raising demonstration that I was doing in the lecture hall?"
As Rayne absent mindedly walked into the office, she couldn't help but notice how tight Trisha's shirt was, how much it was showing off the curves of her... her thought process came a grinding halt. "Why am I checking out a girl!?" she screamed in her head. Followed up by "Well, she is attractive..." Rayne nodded in response to Trisha's almost forgotten question.
Trisha smiled and looked Rayne directly in the eyes. "It was a good demonstration, I think. A demonstration of how a little suggestion about your arm going up... up... up... can have a very nice, very soothing effect on you now. Don't you agree, Rayne?"
"Yes.. I agree it was a... wait, how do you know my name?" she asked then gasped as she noticed her arm was slowly raising up directly in front of her. Straight out like she was reaching out towards Trisha...right for her breast. Rayne's arm subconsciously stretched out just a bit further as it started to rise up. "What is going on?!" she asked, confused and nervous.
Trisha gave a giddy giggle as she watched Rayne's hand rise up past her and start to climb up into the air. "Isn't it obvious?" she asked "you were hypnotized in the demonstration. Just like your notes said."