Hypnotizing the Fellas

Earlier this week Bill was a bit more under the weather than usual.  Knowing how well he responds to hypnotic suggestion, I thought I might be able to convince his body to feel at least some better.  I offered suggestions for relaxation to help in letting go of the anxiety that so often accompanies being ill.  He seemed to respond positively and after a while, he said he was feeling a little better.

Later in the afternoon when Richard and Graham stopped by, Bill casually mentioned I’d hypnotized him that morning.  Right away, the “me, me, me – hypnotize me” teasing started.  Even though they say they are joking when they tease me that way, I suspect there’s a least a little truth to it :)

Since it seemed a fun idea and something that might further boost Bill’s spirits, I thought – why not?  Even though it’s soooo difficult to watch them as they go under, knowing they are putty in my hands (smiles – you know I love it), I tranced each one of them.

Richard was my first victim.  He, like Bill and Graham, is quite suggestible now.  Perhaps it is the frequency with which they are hypnotized :)  At any rate, they respond well and seem to forget suggestions whenever I ask them to.  (Forgetting makes playful suggestions more fun because they have that whole “now why did I say or do that” demeanor about them later).    Once he was in a nice, deep place, I informed Richard every time that day when he thought about food he would hum the Chili’s “Baby Back Ribs” song.  He was to do it under his breath in an absent minded sort of way and not realize why.  Wow, he thinks about food a lot!  After a while I regretted that suggestion as *I* couldn’t get the silly song out of my head either.

Graham, who is by far the most reserved of the bunch, doesn’t like to do dishes at all.   I suggested he would eagerly jump up after dinner and offer to do the dishes by hand.  Not only that, he would put on one of my mixed CDs and dance a bit while he was doing it.  I must say, he is quite cute dancing around while singing “Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy”.    He also proved my wooden spoon made a very good mic :)  I don’t know if he remembered what I’d asked of him when he was hypnotized as I didn’t specifically tell him to forget, but he didn’t mention it.  I do know he had to have been obeying a hypnotic suggestion or he never would have been dancing and singing in such a carefree manner with Bill and Richard in the house.

Bill’s instructions were simple:  every time that day when he saw a woman he thought was sexy, he would sit up straight, smooth out his pants, and turn to one of the other guys and say, “Don’t you think there’s something about her?”  I now know he thinks one of the weather girls on the Weather Channel is scrumptious as well as one of the news anchors on MSNBC.  No material for teasing there ;)