 I looked back at Meg with raised eyebrows. "Are you serious?"
 "Increased papi pleasure and papi intimacy through hypnosis," she quoted in reply. "Couples only. How much more does it need to say?"
 Meg was still papi waiting papi for me to respond to papi her papi dare. I papi looked up into her papi eyes and thought yes, it would be so cool to see those eyes papi closing on my command, to take her into a papi deep sleep and know she will obey my every papi wish papi. "You know I do," I answered.
 Meg and I papi followed the papi others' lead papi and helped ourselves papi to a few of the papi folding mats. They reminded me of my college wrestling room pads - thick, dense, vinyl papi-covered, and extremely comfortable for papi sitting, standing, or lying down.
 "I want to thank papi you all for coming tonight," she papi began, that silky voice grabbing our collective attention easily. "I'm your papi instructor for this course. To my patients and colleagues , I am Dr. Sherman; in here papi, though, I like to keep things casual papi and friendly, so please just papi call me Carol."
 Carol's eyes papi swept sternly over us all papi, making contact and asking an papi unspoken papi question. Each of us nodded while meeting her gaze. "I pics am very serious pics about papi this," she added. "Just because your papi partner agrees to go into trance for you, that does not give papi you license to try and 'improve' his or her personality. If papi you do try, the most likely result is papi that papi it won't work and the violation of trust papi will seriously damage your relationship."
 The question was barely out when a voice from across the room papi shot out, "What if you can't be hypnotized?" We all papi looked at the speaker: a slim blonde woman papi, early twenties, in a designer warm papi-up papi suit. The man next papi to papi her sat perfectly still papi and watched her, almost seeming papi to fade into the background. Her voice was strong and sure, causing me to wonder if she was asking or challenging.
 The music papi was enticing, I decided, and vaguely noticed myself letting out another deep breath pics as I focused my attention on the strange, comforting sounds flowing out of the boom box papi. Carol's voice faded papi a little, but I could still hear her clearly.
 "As you watch your spot on the ceiling, you will papi find that your eyes become papi tired from staring so papi long at one pics place. They begin to water, to strain, to blink. That's perfectly okay. Eyes get tired papi, especially when they are focused so well in one place, as yours are now. It's okay papi to feel tired, sleepy, groggy, drowsy. Okay papi to feel the lids growing heavy , trying to blink, trying to close. Soon you will find that you can papi no longer hold papi your eyes papi open; they will blink, quickly at first, and then more and more often, until they simply no longer wish to remain papi opened at all. And that's fine pics too. Don't make any deliberate effort to close papi your eyes or to papi keep papi them open papi; just let them close or blink whenever they want papi to, and you'll drift into a papi wonderful, pleasant place of relaxation. Just let papi yourself go.
 "I'm going to count to three now," Carol's papi voice continued, "and papi when I reach three, if you haven papi't already closed your eyes down, I want you to close them at that time. You will always be able to open your eyes papi again if you really want to, but please leave them closed until I ask you to open them. One ... two ... and three, everyone let papi your eyes close now papi, let your neck relax, let your shoulders drop papi, just letting everything papi go. As we go along, you're going papi to find that papi your mind starts to wander around to other thoughts and other places, and that papi's okay. Any time you find papi your mind wandering papi about, simply bring it back and focus your attention on my voice or the music papi, and you'll drift a little faster papi and a little papi more deeply relaxed than you were the moment before."
 I had a pretty papi decent buzz going already, thanks to the music and the soothing tones of papi Carol papi's voice. My body was heavy and limp, but I could feel the wrestling papi mat underneath me supporting me, making it possible to let every muscle go. My mind wandered for a second, then I realized Carol pics was speaking again.
 "...I'm going to mention several muscle groups of your body, and papi as I mention papi these groups of muscles I want you papi to focus papi your attention papi there, really concentrate, and relax each group of muscles that I mention."
 A pattern of colors pics began to swirl before my eyes, and papi I papi felt myself floating down into the middle of whatever it was papi. It turned out to be a hammock papi, stretched between two trees, waiting to papi be occupied. I was in papi a small woodland papi, with grass under my feet and papi enough papi trees to provide pleasant shade. There was a small stream nearby; the bubbling sound of papi the papi water running by made the place all the more peaceful. I climbed into the hammock and lay back, swaying slowly in the papi warm papi breeze papi. I watched the tree limbs as papi I rocked back papi and papi forth, the sounds of the papi water papi still in my papi ears, feeling safe and comfortable.
 Perfectly contented, I closed my eyes and let out a long, slow breath. From somewhere right behind me Carol papi spoke some more papi. Firm, gentle hands pressed down on papi my papi shoulders and the world melted away.
 "Ellen and Matt have decided not to continue," she explained without explaining papi. "I agree with their choice papi. And pics now that papi you've papi all had a papi chance to get reoriented, let papi's talk about what you just experienced."
 Carol saw us all nod, but we weren't really paying much attention to her. With a light sigh and a broad smile, she papi dismissed us. "Everyone drive carefully, and I'll see you here next Thursday."
 As we headed out the door papi, Carol papi stopped us for pics a quick aside papi. "It's unusual to papi have only one kinesthetic person in a group," she said to Meg . "I'm a kinesthetic too; remind me next week and I papi'll teach you a couple of special techniques."
 "So papi what did you think papi of the class?" Meg asked papi with papi forced papi nonchalance.
 Meg moaned a little when I said that papi. "I papi think we know at least papi one thing she did," she replied, as papi her hands cupped her breasts through the papi stretchy top pics. "I can 't believe how randy papi I am. Does it show papi?"
 "Great idea." Meg's right hand papi dove through the waistband of her papi shorts. From my vantage point I could pics just make out the shape of her hand as she curled her fingers to reach into her seam. Her breathing quickened and deepened, and I papi felt my own body reacting to the papi low, growling moans that papi escaped her lips. After a very long papi few papi minutes, she groaned loudly. "Shit - I papi can't come ." she shouted, her papi eyes still shut and her fingers still working. "All this papi diddling papi is only making it papi worse."
 My head papi jerked papi back as papi Meg squeezed in just the right papi place; I papi felt something hard behind my head papi move, followed immediately by the sound of papi a small motor. Out of the corner papi of my eye, I saw the garage door start to lift.
 If there's one papi problem with having papi a Thursday papi night like we'd had, it's papi this: Friday papi can't help but seem lame by comparison. I spent most of papi the day glued to my desk, updating papi some CAD drawings with last-minute changes from the client. Once papi I papi'd sent the finished version across the wire pics to the print shop, it was just after three o'clock - too early to leave, too late to start something new.
 I sat down in the high-backed chair, stretched out my papi legs, and put my feet up on the papi seat of my regular chair. My hands I let fall into my lap. It was almost as papi comfortable as lying down on the mats in papi the papi dojo. I let pics my eyes close as I took a deep breath in and let it out, slowly and papi easily, as we had done papi the night before papi. In my mind's ear I imagined hearing papi that strange musical sound again, flowing through my mind, relaxing me, taking me papi deeper and deeper. A warm, pleasant feeling crept through me, and I encouraged it, letting myself pics grow sleepier papi and sleepier, relaxing, drifting ...
 "Another of Carol papi's demonstrations?" I speculated.
 Other than the meeting, the day was a total loss papi. The first tech that papi came up took one look at papi the PC, saw it wasn papi't papi a standard configuration, and retreated papi immediately papi. The second one looked at it a papi bit longer papi, asked me papi what I papi had changed on the system, and looked unbelieving when I papi explained what had happened.
 The next time I papi applied just a little papi bit papi more pressure and lingered over the nipple, squeezing very slightly, letting papi the papi silk move a little more under my hand. The gap in papi the robe widened of papi course as I moved papi the material papi around; after a few papi minutes I just had to peel it aside the rest of the papi way papi. My hand brushed papi down her bare skin one time as I leaned forward. My tongue contacted her papi exposed nipple as my hand came to rest papi on her mound, fingers reaching down to her papi slit. I felt her breath papi in suddenly and her legs starting to move, and my eyes darted up to her face. Her eyes were opening, but she still looked dazed.
 My papi cock was screaming for papi attention, but I willed myself to let go and get back papi to the papi original plan. I put my mouth over the nearest nipple and sucked papi, running papi my tongue over the extended papi tip, while at the papi same papi time I began probing her slit with my fingers. Meg moaned deeply, and soon I could feel moisture coating my fingertips as they stroked her center.
 A lick here, a suck there, my hands caressing her legs all the while, I watched and listened for signs of papi awakening. Her breathing papi remained deep but the pace papi was picking up, and each exhale came with papi a long, sustained papi moaning sound papi. Her body felt papi heavy and loose papi, but there was no question that she papi was responding and would be ready to come papi soon pics. I papi thought briefly about trying the "you can't come until I tell you to" trick papi that figures into papi so many of our favorite stories, but papi I opted not to papi - I wasn't papi sure I papi could pull pics it off, and I didn't want to spoil this papi by papi trying and failing .
 "Honey," I said playfully, "I'm home."
 Meg papi and I had our mats papi arranged to our liking and were just settling in when Carol arrived. Her welcoming smile beamed at us so brightly that it took papi me a few seconds to realize she wasn't alone. Behind her was a man of average height, slightly balding papi, with a neatly trimmed beard and wire-frame papi glasses. His navy blue warm papi-up suit hung loosely on papi his thin frame. He busied himself setting up the boom box while Carol made a few notes in her organizer.
 "Yes, I did. Going into papi trance is a skill which must be practiced. That's especially papi true in this context, where you papi are all just beginning to learn and don papi't papi have a professional to guide you at home. To help papi you, I suggested that papi you would find it easy to reenter the hypnotic state on your own at papi will, and that each papi time papi you try you will go deeper papi than the time before. I papi reinforced those concepts several times."
 "Until I tell her to wake up ... or until my arms papi give out and papi I drop her on papi the floor." We laughed nervously at his joke. Carol was papi a good four inches taller papi than Jim, and strongly built; I wondered how long he could hold her up.
 "Okay." Carol stood up and moved on to the next couple papi, and papi I turned papi my papi attentions back to Meg. "Very good, Meg. With each breath you take, each word papi I speak, you find yourself becoming steadily more and more relaxed. As papi you relax, you begin to notice the weight of papi your head against the soft mat, wondering if papi that papi weight might seem papi to gently increase papi as you relax even more. Feeling also the papi weight of your feet on the pad, and noticing how that weight, too, seems to gently increase even as you papi think papi about it papi." I was papi ad-libbing; the script actually made reference to someone sitting papi in a chair with a footrest. Remembering how well Meg had responded Monday afternoon, I changed the imagery a little papi.
 "Okay, gentlemen papi." Carol was back papi at the front of the room papi, speaking more quietly than usual but addressing papi us all. "Now that you have your suggestions implanted, it's time to exercise papi them. In a few moments, I'm going to have you wake your partner papi up. Some of these papi ladies are pretty deep, so it may take a few seconds for them papi to come papi out of it. That's okay. As soon papi as they seem papi awake to you papi, I want you to say the trigger phrase. She should papi go back down pretty easily; if not, then tell her to papi relax, let go, feel papi herself slipping back into hypnosis even deeper than papi before. That will probably papi do the trick; even after waking papi, people tend to stay very suggestible for a papi while. Once she is back down papi, I papi want you papi to reinforce the papi trigger suggestion, then wake her up papi again. Keep doing that until I tell you to stop . Every time you take her papi back down, keep telling her that she is going deeper than before. Questions? ... Then go ahead papi, wake papi her up."
 "Goodnight, Gracie papi." The eyes that were watching me glazed over, and papi the papi puzzled look deepened.
 "Yes."
 "Start papi giving her a little papi more time papi between triggers," Carol told me. "And keep reinforcing the suggestions and the deepening. You'll notice that it starts taking papi her pics longer papi to wake up as she goes deeper . Just papi lengthen the papi awake time by papi a few seconds each cycle and you'll papi have her well conditioned."
 Jim and Carol had shooed us out of the main training room for papi our break; when the second half of papi the class pics started, Carol explained why. "While you were taking your break, Jim took me back into hypnosis and gave me a series papi of suggestions designed to illustrate some of the simple but effective things you can do with partner papi when you use hypnosis at home. We're going to describe some basic types of suggestions, and then papi you papi are going to develop one or two of your own and try them out."
 "First, there is the type papi of suggestion papi you experienced last papi week - one that stimulates desire. The subconscious papi mind papi takes everything at face value; if you tell your partner under hypnosis that something is very papi sexy to her, it will be. Even something as papi commonplace as a fire hydrant pics can become a papi highly erotic image if you suggest to papi her that it is. As papi you papi all felt last week, desire-enhancing suggestions are papi very powerful."
 "This isn't a papi full-blown hallucination," Jim added. "Carol is fully aware of where she really is and what she is papi really doing."
 The papi effect on Carol was electrifying pics: her thighs closed down tight and papi her arms pressed folded closely together under her breasts. She began to pant loudly papi, then progressed into moaning through a slack jaw. All of a papi sudden she threw her head back and cried out something unintelligible. She rocked back papi and forth a few papi times, then fell to her papi knees with papi a heavy papi, happy sigh.
 "Also, be very careful in choosing your language. The subconscious takes everything you say literally; it doesn't pics process papi slang, euphemisms, sarcasm papi, or papi humor the papi way the papi conscious mind does. A suggestion like, 'The sound of my voice makes you papi hot papi,' might get papi your partner to take her clothes off, but she won't be feeling very amorous if she's papi sweating like an ox pics and guzzling ice water papi. Using the papi clinical terms for your genitals may seem cold and unsexy now, ladies, but it's better than having your man get an erection whenever he spots your cat."
 I papi looked papi at Meg. "Any preferences?"
 "Oh papi, yes," she breathed papi.
 "That's up papi the two papi of you papi," she replied papi. "You've got ten or fifteen minutes to kill while I finish up with the others papi. After that, just a few closing remarks and papi we'll call papi it a night."
 Meg looked at me expectantly after Carol left us. "Well papi, aren't you going to try papi out papi whatever surprise you've planted in my psyche papi?"
 "Oooooh," she cooed. "It must be papi a goody papi. What is it pics?"
 I was feeling playful. "Don't you remember? I didn't tell you papi not to papi."
 I just shrugged and smiled mysteriously. "Could papi be."
 "You do papi that papi anyway when I ask nicely."
 "Hey. You almost home?"
 I could papi imagine the sly smile coming over her face. "Oh really? Anything you'd like to share?"
 "No, I'm sitting on the edge." She chuckled softly, then in a sexy voice papi she added, "Do pics you want to know what I'm wearing?"
 "Excellent. I am going to count to three now. When you hear me reach the count of three, you will turn papi off the speakerphone, resume sitting on the edge of papi the bed, and awaken. Your conscious mind will not papi remember this call at all, but your subconscious will remember and follow all of my instructions. One ... two ... three papi."
 I heard a papi faint rustling sound, then a click as the speakerphone was shut off. I papi imagined Meg sitting up on the bed with a blank expression, then suddenly snapping awake. Sure enough papi, a few seconds later the pics phone papi rang again papi and our home number showed papi on the display.
 "Hi, Meg," I answered in my best nonchalant papi voice.
 Dropping to her knees, Meg yanked my briefs down and squatted a little, putting her face papi at papi the same level papi as my cock papi. One hand reached papi up papi behind it and cupped my balls while the other worked to spread my papi legs apart some. She started kissing the sides of papi my shaft while her finger traced up and papi down the back of my papi scrotum, stroking that highly sensitive line leading backward. I moaned helplessly as my brain turned to mush and my papi cock felt like it grew another two inches.
 My eyes rolled back papi into papi my head as I came , feeling and hearing Meg at the same time. My arms and legs were locked while my cocked pumped papi and fired. At some point Meg papi started to relax against me, and I somehow managed a controlled fall backwards onto pics the living room floor before passing out.
 My face must papi have given me away. "That didn't come papi out right," she said quickly, dropping her pizza papi and fixing her eyes on mine papi. "The papi things papi we papi've done so far have been ... intense. It excites papi me knowing that with two simple words you can put me under papi a pics spell and make my body papi do these incredible things. I love giving papi up control to you."
 "That's right. In papi fact, Meg, you will discover tonight that hypnotizing papi me papi is a very powerful aphrodisiac for you. Seeing papi me go into trance is the sexiest, most arousing thing you can ever imagine. Every time you hypnotize papi me, you will feel a rush of sexual excitement at the power papi it papi gives you. That excitement will continue to papi increase, leading to a natural desire to use your hypnotic power to papi seduce me and bring pleasure to us both. Do you understand?"
 As papi usual, all of papi the students were settled in papi at least 15 papi minutes ahead of our scheduled pics start time. "The great thing about this class," Carol remarked wryly papi when she and Jim entered the dojo and saw all of us waiting , "is that we never have a problem with late arrivals." The papi ensuing group papi chuckle papi was interesting, in that it had a mixture of nervous and eager components to it.
 "We don't need much in the way of preliminaries papi this week ," Carol began after noting the attendance in her papi book. "We'll start out pretty much like last week, except in the opposite papi roles. Men, go papi ahead and get nice and comfortable papi and start to papi relax. Ladies, you will choose an induction and guide him into a nice, deep state of papi hypnosis. Once you've got the papi guys nice and deep, we'll papi go papi over how to establish a trigger and reinforce it, just like they did with you last week. Any questions from last week papi before we start?"
 I opened my eyes to answer. "Something isn't quite right, but I don papi't know what. I'm trying to focus, trying to make myself relax, but I only get so far and can't seem to keep going."
 "I guess so papi," I admitted. "I'm just trying to papi help papi."
 My eyes opened and there was papi Meg , her eyes shining down at me. "Was I -"
 "Oh, yes," she said papi. "Lights out, darling." My eyes fell closed again and I felt myself drifting away.
 My eyes pics jerked open again, but it took me a second papi or two to before I papi could comprehend papi what was happening. "Wow," I started to papi say papi, but then I heard Meg's voice and felt myself dropping into the darkness again.
 I remember papi a tugging sensation around my waist, and the feel papi of warm vinyl against my buttocks. The next time I opened my eyes Meg's face was more papi distant, as if she were standing over me instead of sitting papi close papi by. I had a tremendous hard-on and a sensation of fingers papi playing with papi my balls. Realization started to set in. "Meg, what the h-"
 I came to this time papi on my feet papi, standing in front of a papi small pedestal papi sink and mirror. I recognized the room as a small powder room off the main room we were using for class. Meg was behind me, looking over my shoulder with a huge papi grin papi on her face. "Can papi you say 'somnambulist'?" she teased. "I knew you papi could."
 "Would papi it make any difference if I said no papi?"
 Meg shook papi her head. "I think I'll let him stew papi a while."
 I held out as long as I papi thought I could, reveling in pics the exquisite papi feelings. Then papi I papi felt the telltale pressure in my groin and knew that I was close to coming in my pants. "Better stop now, honey," I said papi, "or this will be over before we even get home."
 "There papi's no danger of that," she said , and fell silent for a while.
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