I guess the promise of making my studying easier was
just what it took to get me to agree. Leslie of course
was already hyped. I don't know what the Hypnotist
promised the other two girls, but whatever it was, they
were as excited as Leslie.
So the Hypnotist moved us to a small dining room table
with four chairs around it. Each girl sat in one of the
chairs. There was a candle in the center of the table
and the Hypnotist lit it. I could look up over the candle
flame and see one of the other girls looking back at me.
She was a cute little redhead with a nice smile. Leslie
was to my right and the fourth girl, a tall blond, was to
my left. Everyone else was sitting or standing in a wide
circle around us. The room lights were switched off
and the whole scene was lit up only by the flickering
candle.
For a moment everything seemed incredibly weird. I
almost got up and laughed the whole thing off but then
the Hypnotist started talking. His voice was, for lack of
a better word, absolutely hypnotic.
He told us to concentrate on the candle flame and I did.
He told us to raise our right hands and point at the
flame and I did that too. The redhead across from me
was pointing at the flame, but somehow it felt like she
was pointing at me. That was kind of spooky. But by
now, I was really concentrating on the voice. The voice
told me my arm would grow heavy and tired much
faster than it normally would. I suppose I could have
held my arm pointing at the candle like that for many
minutes, but the voice was right. Within a few
moments it felt very heavy and tired. I noticed the
redhead's arm already starting to drop. She had a
somewhat startled look on her face. When I looked
back at my arm it had practically fallen down to the
table level. I tried to lift it, but somehow I couldn't. I
didn't know if I should be freaked out or delighted that
it was working.
Once all four arms were down, the voice told us that
they would start to feel light again. The voice said they
would begin to float up and point back at the candle.
And damned if they didn't. All four arms started
slowly and jerkily to rise. This was super weird. But I
was fascinated nonetheless. And soon we were all
pointing at the candle and at each other again.
