💡🐇 Naughty Thoughts

✓꩜⚤ Mind's Eye

The main character in this one is a bit of a loner. She doesn't interact much with the world outside her family, but that's the life she wants. She did try dating a few years back, but found that she never knew what to say; she didn't know how to tell someone that she was interested, and if she's really honest with herself she wasn't she just felt like she should have some kind of relationship because everyone seems to treat that like it's the most important thing. What she did find, though, was something that works better for her.

She met a guy through an online dating site who has shown her more than she ever imagined, and what he can give her is exactly what she feels like she needs. She doesn't think of it as a relationship, and they've never even met. She doesn't have a clue what he looks like, because his profile picture is a blue and red penguin that looks like it might be the badge of some political party. But he's managed to hypnotise her, just by reading the words he typed on chat. And now, she can live out some of her most extreme, intoxicating fantasies. She can be a young noblewoman being ravished by a dashing pirate captain; an intrepid space explorer making carnal first contact with a race of tentacled plants; a young woman abducted and subjected to brainwashing to become the slave of a rich client; or a naive charity worker whisked away to tour the universe by a madman in a box. Sometimes she takes on a dominant role, but most often she's the one having things done to her.

Any fantasy she can imagine, she can ask for. She sinks into trance, and then she has a dream that seems completely real to her. She's never unsatisfied. Those dreams meet her physical needs, and let her explore things that she would never do in the real world.

But the story comes with a bit of a conflict now. Because after years of being able to experience exquisite erotic fantasies on demand, she starts to realise something. The guy in them is always the same. And when her partner is sometimes a girl, she's still the same guy; just recast as a woman. In her dreams, she's been having sex with the same guy for at least a year, and she never even noticed the same face in all the costumes. Until she has one fantasy based on a popular TV show, and notices that the character making love to her isn't played by the actor she initially imagined. She starts to wonder who this guy is; and then she sees him in the real world. She sees him across the street when she's out shopping, and wonders how the man from her dreams could actually exist.

This happens a few times, and she realises that some of the fantasy scenarios she's putting him in have been inspired by what she saw him buying, carrying, or doing a few days before. Eventually, she has to know. But after all this time where her love life has been entirely in her own head, she finds that she doesn't have the courage to talk to a stranger at all, let alone ask him if she's dreaming about him. So she asks her hypnotist friend to help her put on the mask of someone more forward; one of the characters she's dreamed of being in the past, who isn't afraid to ask what she wants. She asks the guy who he is, and finds out more about him. It turns out he was her high school crush; she'd blocked him out of her memory because she was so traumatised by the way some bullies laughed when they heard she was going to confess to him. And she hasn't consciously thought about him since then, but he's always been the guy in her mind's eye when she thought about those kinds of fantasies, even before the hypnosis thing. And when they're catching up on old times, one thing leads to another, and they end up trying some of her fantasies for real.

Except that's just another dream... she could ask her subconscious mind why this guy was so important to her, without actually needing to talk to him. And even without all the kinks, or the fantasy roles, she finds that this dream satisfies her more than any other. So she decides that she wants to see him for real. And after a little pleading, her hypnotist friend agrees. Just for one day, she will be compelled to talk to this guy, and to tell him the truth.

She finds the guy in a coffee shop, and tells him that she's been dreaming about him for years, and got someone to hypnotise her to give her the courage to tell him how she feels. She expects him to make the decisions; assuming whatever type of relationship he wants. But instead he asks her, and she has to admit that she isn't sure. She tells him about the fantasies she's had, and he suggests that with that kind of imagination she could do well as a writer. And he's not really sure how he feels about this, but he'd like to talk some time. They end up spending more time in the coffee shop, just sharing fantasies, and catching up on everything that's happened since they last heard from each other in high school.

After a while, she is feeling frustrated that their relationship doesn't seem to be developing. So she tells him that she wants him to take advantage of her; to show her about his fantasies, rather than the ones she has imagined for him. And she tells him that the hypnotic suggestions mean that she has to be completely honest with him, and she can't say no to anything he wants. He plays along, acting like the dominant type he's seen in some of the fantasies she's shared in the past, and then goes into his own kinks a little. Finally, she has a real boyfriend. And in the morning, she confesses that she lied. She wasn't actually hypnotised for that night, but felt that she would find it easier to admit what she really wants if she was playing a role, like this was another one of her dreams.

He says he guessed that; he knows a bit about what is possible or not with hypnosis, and knows it would never be as powerful as it seems. But he's glad she had the courage to admit she actually wanted sex. They're still not sure if this constitutes a relationship, but he says he'll be there anytime she wants to do it again. And asks if maybe he can try the hypnosis too; so they could play out a scene together, and both feel like the fantasy scenario is real.

I wonder if it might be interesting to write this story in the second person. From the hypnotist's perspective, so he's always telling the main character what she feels, what she hears, what she experiences, and so on. So for the fantasies, it's like he's telling her a story so that she feels it. The main character is always "you"; and there's rarely mentions of the "I" at all, except in the dialogue for the trance. It could also be interesting to alternate; having a chapter of some erotic dream, followed by a couple of paragraphs of the 'real' story. Could change tense between the two, as a way to distinguish them.