XLIII A Hypno Memory

I was teased and even bullied in seventh or eighth grade, but not by everyone.

There was a girl who didn't bully.

But one day, she considered a certain tease would be OK. A hypnotic one.

Here "look at my finger, follow my finger with your eye, answer me without thinking" ...

She posed question after question, sometimes pushing me back to answering quickly without thinking, and to following the finger, not looking at her but her finger as it waved back and forth as a metronome.

And last question, "what is one times one" while suddenly showing two fingers, waving like a metronome.

I automatically answered "two" - and she triumphantly said "you were hypnotised."