You can't believe what happened yesterday during the flight from Jamaica to Philadelphia. Next to Chris was a girl, who started to panic because of some turbulence. She was crying, shaking, and her parents were not able to calm her down. Fianlly, I changed seats with Chris, introduced myself, and stated hypnotizing her. Because we got in bad weather and the plane started to shake really badly, I suggested she should go back to Jamaica to the beach and go snorkeling. While she could feel the waves (airplane shaking) she could see thousands of fish and one of them was diving deeper and deeper and deeper. She was so deeply hypnotized that she was sitting relaxed and with her eyes closed in her seat for about an hour. The landing was pretty rough, too, but she was on her boat sailing slowly back to the beach, which she reached as soon as we landed. Her parents were totally impressed. They told me that they have never seen her that calm and relaxed in a plane and that they wanted me to go on every vacation with them. Chris's reaction was: "I believed you that it would work, but I didn't expect this."
—Eva Kettenmann