Short Story: Hint of a Smile

Male's Point of View - Hypnosis

Whenever I place her in her trance, she always ends up with the hint of a knowing smirk. A light curve of her lip that seems to be a smile, yet isn’t quite formed.

As if she knows all about what I’ve been doing to her mind these past few weeks and can’t help but feel...

Happy...

I’d like to say that I’ve ‘helped that feeling’ along in her multiple sessions, but the truth of the matter is that I haven’t. Not in so many words. I’ve made her feel good, safe and happy while she is in a trance, but I’ve never told her that she ‘loves to be in a trance for me’ or that she is addicted to my sessions.

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It all started as an experiment to see if I could covertly hypnotize her without her knowledge. I wished to see if I could make it so she never questions the time she loses or wonders about the small tweaks I’ve made to her routines.

Could it be that she truly does enjoy what I’m doing with her? That a part of her already knows all about my mind meddling and is simply too pleased to hide it? Or is she playing along from day one and can’t quite suppress her exhilaration when she starts playing along? That she is simply too happy when she makes me think I’ve managed to bring her under my hypnotic power when in fact, she is just waiting for me to push things to a place she doesn’t want to go to break the act and laugh at me?

Or scold me?

If so... When does her play-acting become true hypnotic compulsion?

After all, she has responded almost perfectly to all my post hypnotic suggestions, which would tell me that she is either a very good subject or simply very determined to see her prank through to how ever far she is game to push things.

I mean... Truly... How can one expect a trigger to work so well so fast?

Her trance trigger is always 100% effective now. She can be doing the dishes, talking on the phone, walking in a park or even exercising, it doesn’t matter anymore. I simply have to come up to her and utter her special set of words in my special tone and her mind shuts off.

I feel like I am playing this unspoken game of chicken with her. Who will break first? Will I succumb to my own imagination and push things too far?

Or will she break the charade and finally get her laughs at my expense?

Is she gaslighting me? Or am I hypnotizing her?

There are certainly a lot of fun little tests I can do to discover the truth of the matter, but...

I’m having way too much fun to stop now. Besides... If this continues, regardless if she is faking it or not, it will soon become very real for her. After all... Playing along with my hypnotic sessions for long periods of time will most certainly condition her. She is only human after all and conditioning takes place whether we like it or not. Routines get anchored into our subconscious and so we can go about our day doing repetitive things while our minds are thinking of something else.

If I stay the course, I know I can easily win this game of chicken. I already get what I want from her, regardless if she is playing along or not. So in the end... She can’t win right?

​Unless being conditioned is what she wanted from the start...