Life's Funny That Way

National Hypnotism Day

Now here is a prompt-worthy National Something Day. Hypnotism. It gives way to a bunch of different stories. Hypnotism for good or for evil? Who is the hypnotist? The antagonist or the protagonist? Does that power change them in the course of the story? Or is it the person who is hypnotized that undergoes a change? That change could be one they wished for, such as to stop smoking, or to deal with something in their past. But the change, too, could be something they never saw coming. In fiction, we can make this contrivance anything we would like it to be. We could give the power to a nine year old who turns all of the kids in her class who used to pick on her into gerbils. We can turn common people into soldiers to ward off evil - or to promote evil.
I am not sure how much the first days of this month inspired me, at least as far as the prompts I am pulling from National Something Day, but this one definitely has merit! Who has a great story about hypnotism? I would love to read them all!