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Outside light closed to a sliver, then a click as the closet door shut completely leaving nothing but the pulsating light. A voice streamed from one of the boxes built into the wall containing shoes.
A woman's voice talked about relaxing, emptying your mind. John/Frisky laughed under his dog mask as his thoughts were flying past him at record pace not allowing him to focus on anything. Valerie had drugged him with marijuana gummy bears. It was in his system and there was no stopping what was happening or what was to come. He had to ride this marijuana trip out till it was over. He hoped he might be able to sleep some of it off.
But the strobe light even penetrated his eyelids, still hitting his retina. He attempted to lift his paws to cover his eyes, but they stopped cold. The stainless steal, round mitts couldn't be moved from where they had been meeting his ankle shackles.
Was he so high that he missed Valerie padlocking the chains together in a hog-chain with his wrists and ankles in front? His appendages could not be separated, secured by a padlock connecting the first link in the chains connected to the mitts and shackles.
In a mask, hog-chained in front, leashed with a collar heavily hanging around his neck, he started to panic. If he let this path of thought continue he would go into a complete panic attack and possibly hurt himself. How could Valerie put him in this situation?
Don't panic. Don't panic. John/Frisky focused on the voice coming from above.
"Deeper, deeper still. Fully relaxed now, you can only hear the sound of my voice," the streaming hypnotist said.
Relax... That's what he has to do. Realizing that he was hardly breathing at all, he breathed in heavily through the snout of the mask, the scent of the fabric filling his nostrils. Another deep breath. What more was in those gummy bears? Breath in--breath out--
"You...are a dog," the female voice said as a matter of fact. "A simple, happy puppy."
Yes, yes, he was, he thought. Anything positive to make the panic inside of himself to stand down. In fact, he thought he had heard this one before from his curiosity into seeking hypnotism online.
"You can feel your tail growing as you transform..." the voice continued somewhere in the mix of words that John/Frisky was interpreting. The words would come, do their work in his mind and then depart just as quickly. The chemicals in his system were disrupting his thinking patterns, making it impossible to hold a continuous thought. But the flow of words being spoken were something to hold onto, if even for a moment, like a rope saving his life over a river of anxiety that he could use to steadily climb to safety.
Suddenly there was nothing. The voice stopped. The void overwhelmed him. The never ceasing strobe light bouncing off of the walls and the shoes and the wood was some kind of punishment for having not followed the instructions of the voice.
John/Frisky was saved when another voice entered the room. A man. A man's voice talking smoothly. "Lie down or sit in a comfortable position..." This time, he would follow along closely.
He couldn't tell if he went under hypnosis that time or not, as he had never been hypnotized as an experience to compare it to. But, there were after affects, he could tell. Yes, yes, he was feeling more like a dog. A real dog.
This time when the voice ended, he did not fear the silence knowing there was another right behind it. His faith was rewarded as another lady's voice penetrated his hooded ears in a soft, subtle way. This time John/Frisky followed through the relaxation portion of her video.
Perhaps it was the chemicals pumping through his blood stream, but it seemed as if the rhythm of the voice had synchronized with the deviously blinking light pounding the ideas formed by the words into his mind.
This went from video to video, unseen but heard. One after another, some sounding alike, others standing out as potentially true hypnosis. Some repeats or close replicas of what came before. But all reaching in with the unrelenting throb of the light, twisting his mental awareness of the world, his place in it, and his self perception.
But of course, that's what it was supposed to do...
Knowing that didn't seem to help as all of his repressed dog/slave personality and attributes were freed from their inhibitions, brought to the surface unrestricted.
"Bark for me," one of the women's voices said near the end of her video.