"you've never heard of hypnosis before? you haven't seen it in a movie? like when someone, you know, stares deeply into someone's eyes, or they stare deeply into a crystal, and their eyes sort of go wide from the almost magical way a crystal can glitter in a dark room -- or they're following, you know, a slowly swinging pocket watch and their eyes go, you know, back and forth, back and forth, until they start to lose focus for a moment here and there, and start to get heavy..."
"you've really never heard of that? of being hypnotized? okay. i can show you what it's like, and in a different way from all that. what it's really like, between two people like this. it's really just a sort of human experience, like feeling carried along with a story someone's telling you while you're listening, closing your eyes now and then to picture what they're saying. or following along with watching a movie, drawn into it so much that when it ends and the screen goes black -- you sort of blink, and shake yourself and come back to reality. that feels really close to what hypnosis is like. being drawn into someone, what they're saying, into looking right where they ask you to look, focusing there, and imagining right what they ask you imagine, so perfectly that it suggests things to your body without you thinking that far. it's really just perfect focus on someone. here. and if you pay close attention. now. to the shape of each word i'm saying. you can actually feel. if you pay close attention. this effect start to happen to you. looking right in my eyes. now. will make it stronger. and looking right here at my hand, just here, a little above you, slowly shifting there, this will make it stronger still. to look right there, to focus right there, to focus on the shape of every word i'm saying. and something unusual now, you can imagine happening. as my hand moves closer, even from this distance away, you can feel somehow...my hand is pushing...down...something that makes your eyes start to feel...just slightly heavy. imagine...as my hand moves closer...a million tiny little weights all along your eyelids, that get heavier...as my hand...is closer...and closer. and if your eyes get so heavy...you close them...just focus, right here, on the shape of my words. closer and closer. heavier. i can see the force. that you need. now. to keep your eyes open. and you can relax. and let them close. when you like. and then you can imagine sleep. you can imagine deep sleep, deep, deep sleep, asleep at night with the stars and the moonlight out up there above you, in the heavy, total darkness of night, sleep. deep sleep. i see that your eyes are closed now, and i see...that you're imagining...deep, deep sleep. sleep. perfect...*snap*...sleep. and this, you now know, is the feeling of being hypnotized. it's like imagining that you're deeply asleep, and you are, except really, just your body is asleep. your mind is secretly awake, listening to me. you are deeply hypnotized. deeply hypnotized. *snap* sleep is the signal, a secret signal between you and me, that you, right now, can be deeply hypnotized, shifting right in just a few moments from upright to relaxed to thinking of sleep to deep, deep, deeply hypnotized, deep sleep. *sleep.*
and on the count of three and the snap of my fingers you'll find your eyes blink, blink, blink open, all the way wide and bright and you're right here, right here with me, knowing that somehow you've just been hypnotized, somehow from focusing somewhere you were just now hypnotized and then 1, 2, 3, *snap* eyes open, right here right now all the way back to reality. hello! so that's being hypnotized. and there you are. is there anything else you're curious about, with being hypnotized? it would take me only a moment to show you quite a lot of further things that are quite intense feelings. have you ever seen, or could you imagine someone hypnotized so...they thought they were perfectly awake and normal, and yet they couldn't move a step from where they are, like they're stuck in place, and yet they just don't know, just can't figure out why, still can't really believe they were hypnotized? do you think that would work, right now, on you? if you're not certain, may i -- for my curiosity -- see, if you have a minute more? wonderful. alright. look right here -- deep breath in, annd ssshhhhwwwww *snap* sleeep. perfect. perfectly hypnotized. you are perfect. and now i would like to start your focus, a focus on relaxation, all the way at the top of your head, right at the very top relaxing that small circle of muscles...and bit by bit, we'll relax downward all the way to your toes, yet for now...just still at the top of your head, a ring of light there like you're being read by something, a relaxing ring of light proceeding down around your head, around your forehead, reaching the tops of your ears and starting to touch your uppermost muscles around your eyes, and already...just here...feeling so relaxed. already imagining perfectly that you're deeply asleep. and you can go even deeper. now."
...i could kind of keep going like that forever. street hypnosis practice ill call it.
