Eventually, the program released Anna (as it was designed to do). Anna woke with a start and realized that she had fallen asleep in front of the monitor, and she got cleaned up and went to bed. She slept soundly, and got up the next day for her classes. She briefly looked at the computer when she got up--something unusual about it, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
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A full day of classes was tiring, but Anna came home and turned on the computer as she undressed from the day. Something seemed to be calling her to check her email, so she did.
The program detected her presence and began its function. <Stay at your computer for some time--check email, read news, surf the web.> flashed on the screen, and Anna began to do just that. Meanwhile, the program started in with the induction sections. Due to her exposure the previous night, Anna fell into a state where the program had her at the end of the previous night within about ten minutes, and it began to take her deeper. She sat, vacantly staring at the screen, surrounded by strange sounds from the speakers. Her responses indicated to the program that she was very deeply hypnotized, and some initial programming began to run on her screen. As the statements appeared, she mumblingly repeated them.
<You think Randy Walden is a great guy.>
"I think Randy Walden is a great guy."
<Randy always has such great ideas--he's so smart.>
"Randy always has such great ideas--he's so smart."
<You need to check your email every night at some point. Preferably alone and when you have an hour or so to spend doing it.>
"I need to check my email every night at some point. Preferably alone and when I have an hour or so to spend doing it."
On and on it went for an hour or so. Just general statements about Randy and checking her email, but a few about eating right, working out more often, and getting some sexy lingerie. The program released her, and she again awoke and realized that she had fallen asleep in front of the computer. She got up and went to fix diner--she decided she wanted something healthy tonight. |