Laughter in Darkness
A suspense, romantic and psychological thriller
By
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“Give strict instructions to all your family members not to disturb you in that one hour. Latch the doors from inside to prevent anyone from accidentally entering into your room and disturbing you. Then gently lay yourself face upwards on the bed. The clothing on your body must not be uncomfortable to you. Making yourself as much comfortable as possible on the bed is your responsibility.” Neeraja paused once again looking into the faces of the people there.
None of them preferred to say anything but remained silent looking eagerly into her face.
“Then take three deep breaths. Deep breaths mean deep breaths without any reservation. You have to fill your lungs as much air as possible, hold it there for few seconds and leave it again. Give few seconds pause between each breath. Consider yourself how you do feel after the deep breaths. You do have a little head reeling feeling and there is no problem. It is just because of filling your lungs with more air than usual. It would do good to your health.” Neeraja paused few seconds.
“The foundation stone for self-hypnotism has been laid. Now gently close your eyes. To get the best result of self-hypnotism you have to use second person all the time. It would be just like someone from outside hypnotizing you. You may use the first person also if you do like it best. It is upto you.”
Anand and Aravind leaned back in the chairs and hissed out heavily in the small pause Neeraja gave again.
“You have to say to yourself ‘your body and mind are completely under my control. Your body and mind oblige me completely.’ You have to say this to yourself two or three times. After giving few seconds pause you have to say ‘Now you are taking a deep breath… a deep breath…’. You need not do anything intentionally. All automatically will be done by you. What all necessary is you have to say yourself so. If you don’t take a deep breath instantly after saying so, you have to say it so again and again until you take a deep breath. Don’t worry it sure does happen at the first instance itself. Then you have to say yourself ‘your right leg is stretching itself and relaxing.’ Once your right leg is stretched and relaxed, you have to say in the same way to your left leg also. Then to your right hand and then to your left hand. Then you have to say ‘your whole body is stretching itself and relaxing itself.’ Mostly all these commands would be obliged by you at the first instance itself. Anyhow if it does not happen like that, say them two or three times that is enough. Then you have to say to yourselves ‘you are squeezing your eyelids and relaxing them. You are squeezing your eyelids and relaxing them.”
Once again there was a pause and none of them tried to say anything and Neeraja started again.
“Then you have to say to yourself ‘you are completely relaxed now. You have no tension or anxiety in you. You and your mind completely follow my suggestions.’ You have to say yourself so two or three times. One important thing I have to say to you people here itself.” Neeraja paused a moment as if to reiterate whatever she was going to say then. “All the time from the moment of your starting self-hypnosis and completing of it, there may be several thoughts and feelings in you. You just don’t bother about those thoughts and feelings and let them there so. You need not even observe them at all.”
“Even I don’t want to observe, they may come into my notice.” Anand said.
“Let them come into your notice there is no problem. Anyhow there is difference between observation and noticing. If you consider the thoughts all by yourself it is ‘observing’ and if they all by themselves come into your consideration it is ‘noticing.” You cannot stop the thoughts and feelings come into your notice and there is no problem with it. Despite those thoughts and feelings, this self-hypnotism works.” Neeraja said.
“Alright, alright, I understood.” Anand said and nodded his head.
“Then you have to say to yourself ‘you are feeling very much sleepy. You are feeling very much sleepy. You are going into hypnosis. You don’t fall asleep, but you do go into deep hypnosis.’ This too you have to say to yourself three or four times. Then you can find yourself in a trance like state.” Neeraja paused once again and said ‘You have to say to yourself ‘I do count five. By the time I say five you do go into deep hypnosis.’ Then you have to start counting.” Neeraja smiled and looked into the faces of the people there. “Are you people feeling that I am saying the same thing that you all do know very well.”
“It is new to me. Even I know self-hypnosis, I don’t know that I can put myself under hypnosis in this way. Whatever you are saying is very much interesting and please continue.” Sameera said.
Neeraja nodded her head and said. “You have to say ‘one….you are going into hypnosis, two…..you are feeling more and more sleepy but you don’t fall asleep. Three …you cannot remain anymore awaken… but you don’t fall asleep. Four …you are under hypnosis now. Five…you are under complete hypnosis.’ If you follow the process from the beginning as I have said, you can find yourself under complete hypnosis after saying ‘five.’ Now the most important point what suggestions you have to give yourself while you are under hypnosis. You may better sum up whatever you want into a sentence as little as possible and be clear with it. For example if you want to develop your memory power, the sentence needs to be ‘You are having wonderful memory power.’ If you want to quit your smoking habit, the sentence needs to be ‘From now on you are completely free from your smoking habit.’ In this way. You have to say that sentences formed ten times while you are under hypnosis. Now is the time for coming out of hypnosis. Then you have to say yourself ‘Now I count five. By the time I count five you come out of your hypnosis completely. Then you have to count yourself numbers until five with little pause in between them. By the time you count five, you do come out of your hypnosis. It very easily happens and you need not worry about it much. Taking yourself out from hypnosis is very easy thing to do. You need not put that much effort for this as you have to, to put yourself under hypnosis. But don’t try to come out of hypnosis abruptly. That is not advisable. Follow the procedure.” Saying so, Neeraja hissed out heavily as if she was exhausted completely by her effort like that till then.
“Very much interesting! I think it would be surely helpful to put us under hypnosis easily.” Sunanda said.
“I know about hypnotism and self-hypnotism also in before. In fact I have practiced self-hypnotism and hypnotized some people before. But the way told by Neeraja is appearing very much simple and effective!” Aravind said.
“Did not we say about Aravind to you? He knows a lot about paranormal and he is very much experienced in hypnotism and self-hypnotism.” Sunanda said.
“Yes, we talked about him and I came to know about him a lot through the book ‘A Mansion Of Illusions.” Neeraja looked into the face of Aravind with a curious expression in her face.
“I have some knowledge and experience in paranormal and I know something about hypnotism but I am not an expert in them.” Aravind said.
“Aravind, I think you have suggested séance while were here last time. But we did not have a chance to experiment with it then. Why don’t we do it now? It would be a best time pass for us.” Anand asked him.
“We use séance to invite spirits. To invite which spirit, we have to use this séance?” with a smile on his lips Aravind asked him.
“You are right. Which spirit we invite? Anyhow what is the necessity to us to invite spirits?” Anand said.
As they were talking like that Emily entered into that room along with Madhuri and Arjun. “These two devils did not let the people there stay in peace. So I took these two here.” Madhuri and Arjun immediately went into the hands of their mothers.
“Now these two don’t let us in peace.” Taking her daughter into her lap, Sunanda said. “Anyhow Emily you missed a very important thing. Neeraja aunty told us about self-hypnosis till now.”
“I don’t know about this self-hypnotism much but my mom put me under hypnosis on one occasion before.” Emily said.
“You have been put under hypnosis before! But for what?” Sameera said. They all except Neeraja and Emily exchanged surprising glances.
“Emily suffered from a psychological disorder before and Rose has to put her under hypnosis to treat her. Rose is very much well versed with these types of matters.” With a very low voice Neeraja said.
“I see.” Sunanda understandingly nodded her head. “Were you with Rose in those times?” she asked her.
“No I was not with her at that time. I came into Black Ant Mental Care at a later point of time. Rose said all that to me. In fact your dad also was not with us then.” Neeraja said.
“Neeraja aunty is right. I have suffered from split-personality in the past. To cure me from that disorder my mom put me under hypnosis and treated me.” Emily said.
They could not talk without being heard to Emily.
“Oh, Emily dear. Stop thinking about it.” Neeraja said.
“There is no problem. Mom said to me not to feel fear to that. Mom always says to me never fear to a problem and face it boldly.” Emily said.
“It is indeed a great saying. But you have been completely cured of that problem, are not you?” looking into her face, Neeraja asked her.
“I am afraid I am not.” With apprehension in her face Emily said. “Mom also thought I have been cured of it completely but I fear I am not.”
“Why you are thinking like that my dear? Why you are thinking so?” with knitted brows and an anxious expression in her face, Neeraja asked her.
“After entering into this house, I have behaved oddly with Rajesh uncle and Tanuja aunty. I have behaved oddly with these two aunties also.” Emily said looking into the faces of Sunanda and Sameera.
“I cannot understand. What happened?” Neeraja asked Sameera.
Then Sameera explained to Neeraja what Emily talked to them both. “I don’t know what she has talked with my parents.” She said.
“I know about it. Rose told me.” Then she said to Sameera and Sunanda what Emily has said to Rajesh and Tanuja.
“I promise. I just did not know that I was talking like that either with you both or with Rajesh uncle and Tanuja aunty.” With a worrying expression in her face, Emily said.
“Its alright. None of us are blaming you here now. Moreover, it is not at all because of your split-personality. You have been cured of it completely and I am hundred percent sure of it.” Neeraja said.
“Then why I have talked like that?” with gathered frowns, Emily asked her.
“I cannot say about it now. But it is surely not because of that split-personality disorder. You are no more suffering from it now.” Saying so Neeraja got off from the bed holding the hand of Emily. “Now I am going downstairs with Emily. I meet all you people again.” Saying so she went away from that place taking Emily with her.
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