Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 01, 2015

Hypnosis is actually a social phenomena. It’s an agreement between the hypnotist and the subject, the hypnotist gives the subject permission to act silly.

But this is a cartoon…. so we take some liberties….

I was proficient at hypnosis in high school and college, but I haven’t done it since because it’s playing with a person’s will. I could make a person have a blister by touching them with a room-temperature pencil while saying it was a red-hot iron rod.

Okay, I’ll bite. And you know this how? … I guess there must be many things on the internet that I just don’t want to know about.

Looking good Sue.

I have an idea. How ’bout Dana asks Elena to hypnotize Rita into being a reasonably intelligent and rational person?Oh yeah—that would ruin one of the main subplots of Working Daze…

Years ago I was a subject in hypnosis experiments as one of the unhypnotizable “fakers”, instructed to pretend to be hypnotized in double-blind experiments to test the true nature of hypnosis. After I became too good at it and could skew results, they gave me a stack of write-ups of their research and sent me on my way. The articles showed, among other things, that you could get more pain tolerance by paying people for it and that the hypnotized would not put themselves in perceived danger but the fakers would because they were thinking about the facts. In short, Zakour’s first comment is correct.

A witch, a gorgon and now a hypnotist work at this office? Makes working from home look even more attractive than Carolina!

BTW, Rita is intelligent in her own way. She just sees the world from a skewed point of view.