Haruka Sakurada was in school at the end of his Junior year of college. It was summer and he was going year round attempting to finish his engineering degree on schedule after having fallen behind in his Freshman year as a result of a sickness. The schedule of course did not permit for much fun time, but he had gotten used to it – nearly. It was arduous but he was determined.

He had always had a crush on one of his older sisters, Akane Sakurada, growing up and when she departed for university it felt weird having the house without her. However, when he departed for university himself, it felt even weirder. He was on his own now without his many siblings, and dorm life did not suit him at all so he acquired a room a few miles from the campus.

When he would return home for vacations or the infrequent special occasion, He would try and spend as much time with Akane as possible more than any of his family members and that included the sibling he was closest to, his twin sister Misaki Sakurada.

Akane was attractive, but nothing that would really capture your eye and make you turn your head. And yes as a adolescent teenager growing up he did his best to spy on his older sister any chance he had when she was taking a bath or changing her clothes. However, with all that, he did not think that 'hot' was ever an adjective he would have used to describe her – not in his mind nor externally to anybody.

Now this semester he had two electives and two of his majors to preoccupy himself with. He had selected a psychology course and a philosophy course as his two electives, thinking they would be a breeze and he could focus on his majors. The psychology course was engrossing because it dealt with therapeutic hypnotism. He supposed he may not have thought it would be all that easy, but it did seem fascinating.

For those who have never looked into therapeutic hypnotism, it was the actual thing – the medical version. And he learned about many of the misconceptions entangled in the subject of hypnosis. For example, even though the word hypnosis was obtained from the Greek word 'hypnos', it did not entail sleep. In fact the lecturer described it as the opposite of sleep. It was a super-concentration. The reason individuals could behave the way they do in hypnosis is that they were focusing so strongly on a single thing, that they kept out everything else going on around them. She said it was like bring you up to the painting of Mona Lisa and pushing your face to it so that you only saw a tiny blotch of paint and then asking you what do you see.

Another misconception was that you could not be made to do something you would not ordinarily do, such as be given a firearm and say gun down that person. That part was strictly true, but on the other hand, if you were given a 45 caliber semiautomatic pistol and told it was a squirt gun and that the person on your right just squirted your friend and you were now going to squirt him back, you would probably blow his brains out. Deception had long been a huge factor of stage hypnotists performances.

So in class toward the end of the term the professor demonstrated physically hypnotizing somebody, and then they all had to take turns doing it to one another, in a controlled classroom domain of course. He was astonished at how simple it was to both hypnotize, and to be hypnotized. As a matter of fact, self-hypnosis was another thing she taught them for relaxation as well as education. She claimed that two hours of relaxation under hypnosis could be as revitalizing as a complete eight hours sleep.

So now when his older sister Akane came to see him one Saturday, she and he got into a discussion about hypnotism and the truths and myths surrounding it. Like him she was interested, but also a little disbelieving. She had never witnessed a stage hypnotist in person and always thought that they were frauds who had assistants prepared in the audience. He explained how that probably was not true at least for some, but he did not think she was convinced of it. Then he told her about the relaxation effect of hypnosis and how you could do it yourself. She was eager to know about it and wanted him to demonstrate to her.

After he had her lay down on his bed, he had her relax until he had her into quite a good level of hypnosis. Then he did one of the numerous tests the professor taught them to ensure somebody was under hypnosis. This particular one involved telling her to relax her arm until it started to feel lighter and lighter from strain leaving. As he told her this, her right arm started to ever so steadily lift up off the bed 'on its own'.

He had told her he was going to place her under hypnosis for thirty minutes and prove to her how relaxing it could be. So he glanced at the clock to time it.

He then thought, "What am I going to do now for the next half hour?"

Immediately his hormones kicked in, making him think "I have my older sister here under my control. There's no way I'm going to let such a rare opportunity go to waste."

To be continued...

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