(David’s friend Clare embarrassingly hypnotizes him, giving him suggestions to make him really love being hypnotized, and become even easier to hypnotize in future, which his workmates certainly take note of for the future, but he has no memory of that. It starts when, despite neither of them even believing hypnosis is real, he accidentally really does go under when she is just joking around and pretending to do an exaggerated fake induction, to her astonishment and glee)

Most of the team from the office were on the night out to celebrate David’s 30th birthday, and his friend Clare had come along, too. They had been at the pub for an hour already and people were starting to get tipsy. Clare kicked her uncomfortable shoes off.