Obsessions

[Jade]

Gem, if you felt you experienced something "real" (sounds like a real enough experience to me), then it's real to you, and don't let her take that away. She just thinks it must have not been real because you didn't do what she wanted you to do, like a puppet. She seems to think of hypnosis like the type you see at a carnival performance, where someone gets made to bowk like a chicken. I think you had genuine intentions so I think those overrode your mother's insidious intentions.

Either way, I also support the "you shouldn't get hypnotized by your mother anymore" chorus. But I also don't think you should let her negativity nullify your experience, because it has carried spiritual meaning for you to ponder.