So what would the Hyp\u00adno\u00adtism Muse\u00adum look like? Pos\u00adsi\u00adbly a loca\u00adtion like a movie mem\u00ado\u00adra\u00adbil\u00adia store I found in Los Ange\u00adles over a decade ago, when I was look\u00ading for hyp\u00adno\u00adsis-relat\u00aded movie mem\u00ado\u00adra\u00adbil\u00adia, pub\u00adlic\u00adi\u00adty pho\u00adtographs, posters, etc. It was lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly on the bot\u00adtom floor of a two-sto\u00adry urban mall, with eth\u00adnic stores around it and a Japan\u00adese restau\u00adrant \/ bar on the upper floor that over\u00adlooked the hall on the low\u00ader floor. Only in Los Angeles \u2026<\/p>\n
Any\u00adway, I can dream, though, and I can imag\u00adine, and I can con\u00advert those dreams and imag\u00adin\u00adings into words. (And maybe, one day, into reality.)<\/p>\n
Here they are:<\/p>\n
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It is an anony\u00admous, brown paper-cov\u00adered glass door and accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading brown paper-cov\u00adered dis\u00adplay win\u00addow, just one in a row of iden\u00adti\u00adcal doors and dis\u00adplay win\u00addows, all barred, some occu\u00adpied, some sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly anony\u00admous, along both sides of the par\u00adtial\u00adly-under\u00adground low\u00ader floor of the enclosed mall, a typ\u00adi\u00adcal sub\u00adur\u00adban strip mall dou\u00adbled-back and fold\u00aded-over onto itself in the small\u00ader urban space with\u00adin the com\u00adbined busi\u00adness \/ apart\u00adment house \/ park\u00ading garage city block. There isn\u2019t even a num\u00adber over the door, but the store sell\u00ading Bol\u00adly\u00adwood DVDs on the right and the bak\u00adery two doors down on the left are labeled, so the applic\u00ada\u00adble address could be guessed eas\u00adi\u00adly. There is no but\u00adton near the door, but a close inspec\u00adtion would reveal con\u00adcealed cam\u00aderas mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading the entire front.<\/p>\n
The dead\u00adbolt opens eas\u00adi\u00adly, but the stuck door still gives a rea\u00adson\u00adable approx\u00adi\u00adma\u00adtion of being locked until a strong shove forces it open. A sound plays with\u00adin, faint\u00adly: the ring\u00ading sound of the Red Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Phone from the Derek Flint movies. Once the door is closed, there is still just enough light around the edges of the paper cov\u00ader\u00ading the glass to find the light switch\u00ades on the near wall. The neon lights over\u00adhead sput\u00adter and all but a cou\u00adple flick\u00ader into light at a flip of the switch: the burnt-out lights will be replaced, soon.<\/p>\n
The wall beside the door holds a vir\u00adgin cork\u00adboard with an array of push\u00adpins neat\u00adly arranged in rows by col\u00ador at the top. Above it is a bright red sign show\u00ading the sym\u00adbol of a fire extin\u00adguish\u00ader and down\u00adward point\u00ading arrow. The wall beside them, back to the cor\u00adner, holds two large framed posters, sev\u00ader\u00adal framed pho\u00adtographs, a framed phono\u00adgraph album, a deep mem\u00ado\u00adra\u00adbil\u00adia box and a framed biog\u00adra\u00adphy, all ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded to a famous female stage hyp\u00adno\u00adtist of years gone by.<\/p>\n
The far wall is even\u00adly divid\u00aded by a bead\u00aded cur\u00adtain, where the beads are shiny sil\u00adver faceted balls and small mir\u00adrors, which obscures the mys\u00adter\u00adies within.<\/p>\n
The walls to the left and right of the hall\u00adway entrance both have low glass cab\u00adi\u00adnets before them and glass-cov\u00adered shelves above the cab\u00adi\u00adnets. The cab\u00adi\u00adnet to the right of the entrance holds a shin\u00ading brass con\u00adtrap\u00adtion, with crys\u00adtals mount\u00aded on a rotat\u00ading plate before a mir\u00adror out\u00adlined by four low can\u00addle hold\u00aders, with gears under\u00adneath the plate designed to be oper\u00adat\u00aded by the crank behind the mir\u00adror. The glass-cov\u00adered shelves in the wall above the cab\u00adi\u00adnet hold large fig\u00adurines rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable from movies and comics. The cab\u00adi\u00adnet to the left of the entrance holds a series of hard\u00adcov\u00ader books with bright paper cov\u00aders, all show\u00ading some image of medieval fan\u00adta\u00adsy, and a plac\u00adard show\u00ading a pic\u00adture of the author and list\u00ading their biog\u00adra\u00adphy. The shelves about the cab\u00adi\u00adnet are nar\u00adrow\u00ader, and are only part\u00adly filled with gad\u00adgets like met\u00adal box\u00ades with arrays of lights and metronomes and mechan\u00adi\u00adcal spi\u00adrals and spi\u00adral coins and glass\u00ades with spi\u00adral lens\u00ades and racks of dan\u00adgling crys\u00adtals in sev\u00ader\u00adal shapes, sizes and colors.<\/p>\n
The left wall holds swing\u00ading poster racks: cur\u00adrent\u00adly, one is open to a lurid 70s era movie poster fea\u00adtur\u00ading a beyond stereo\u00adtyp\u00adi\u00adcal image of a Yel\u00adlow Per\u00adil pulp vil\u00adlain, oppo\u00adsite a Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan peri\u00adod repro\u00adduc\u00adtion of a poster show\u00ading sev\u00ader\u00adal sub\u00adjects per\u00adform\u00ading stage hyp\u00adno\u00adtism antics, with an open area across the top to be used to print the name of a spe\u00adcif\u00adic stage hypnotist.<\/p>\n
The enclosed win\u00addow dis\u00adplay is wide but not very deep. Through the open access door can be seen two manikins stand\u00ading there, fac\u00ading out: the one on the left is dis\u00adguised with a black satin cloak with upswept lapels, the oth\u00ader wears a shab\u00adby monk\u2019s robe with strag\u00adgly hair down past their shoulders.<\/p>\n
Through the bead\u00aded cur\u00adtain is a hall\u00adway. Anoth\u00ader switch turns on the lights there. Pic\u00adtures line the hall\u00adway: large framed one-sheet and three-sheet movie posters on the left, small\u00ader por\u00adtrait-sized pic\u00adtures of movie pub\u00adlic\u00adi\u00adty pho\u00adtos and enlarged book cov\u00aders on the right. The doors and walls are mis\u00admatched, some pos\u00adsi\u00adbly tem\u00adpo\u00adrary or pos\u00adsi\u00adbly new addi\u00adtions: the wall to the right, up past the first two doors, is an indus\u00adtri\u00adal dark green in col\u00ador, but the wall after that and the wall on the left are paint\u00aded a paler pas\u00adtel blue. The first two doors on the right are paint\u00aded, and prob\u00ada\u00adbly paint\u00aded more than once, indus\u00adtri\u00adal white, while the oth\u00ader doors are plain wood. The ceil\u00ading over\u00adhead is obscured by indus\u00adtri\u00adal-col\u00adored drop panels.<\/p>\n
The first room to the left is only five mis\u00admatched met\u00adal fold\u00ading chairs across, with an aisle on either side, but long enough to hold five rows and leave more than ade\u00adquate room for the small podi\u00adum and ade\u00adquate pac\u00ading space in the front and the nar\u00adrow table hold\u00ading the minifrig, microwave and cof\u00adfee mak\u00ader in the back. There is a retractable screen across the top of the front wall and a pro\u00adjec\u00adtor hang\u00ading from the ceil\u00ading near the back.<\/p>\n
The first room to the right is an office, noth\u00ading of inter\u00adest to see there: the door, direct\u00adly across from the door across the hall, is labeled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Private\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Under\u00adneath is a framed T\u2011shirt, with a spi\u00adral of grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly dimin\u00adish\u00ading text repeat\u00ading \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hyp\u00adno\u00adtism Muse\u00adum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in black let\u00adters against the white fabric.<\/p>\n
The door to the next room to the right is also labeled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Private \/ Not For Gen\u00ader\u00adal Pub\u00adlic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over the all-accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtions restroom plac\u00adard. The facil\u00adi\u00adties with\u00adin are bland and prob\u00ada\u00adbly date from the 1980s, with the con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary addi\u00adtion of hand\u00adi\u00adcap rails. There is also a cab\u00adi\u00adnet in one cor\u00adner hold\u00ading bath\u00adroom and clean\u00ading sup\u00adplies, includ\u00ading a mop and wheeled bucket.<\/p>\n
The next room on the left opens into floor to ceil\u00ading book\u00adcas\u00ades sur\u00adround\u00ading the walls. The binders, books and DVDs are cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adrized and sort\u00aded, non\u00adfic\u00adtion on the left, fic\u00adtion to the right. All are labeled on the spine or inside accord\u00ading to both the Dewey Dec\u00adi\u00admal and Library of Con\u00adgress sys\u00adtems, both famil\u00adiar sets of let\u00adters and num\u00adbers to the cognoscen\u00adti<\/i>. The door\u00adway is lined with sen\u00adsors, and the books are tagged, so any attempt to remove them from the room is instant\u00adly detected.<\/p>\n
The next room on the right, direct\u00adly across from the library, is lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adous with indi\u00adrect dim\u00adma\u00adble light\u00ading and sooth\u00ading eggshell white walls that seem wider than the oth\u00ader rooms. Two mis\u00admatched over\u00adstuffed leather reclin\u00ading chairs face each oth\u00ader, flank\u00ading the door, with an iden\u00adti\u00adcal end table with a read\u00ading lamp beside them. One end table is piled with hard\u00adcov\u00ader books, each with book\u00admarks pok\u00ading out of the top. While the pur\u00adpose of the room is unmis\u00adtak\u00adable, it has anoth\u00ader func\u00adtion: the shelf under\u00adneath each end table holds a VR immer\u00adsion rig, includ\u00ading a nest of body sen\u00adsors and an accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading lap\u00adtop com\u00adput\u00ader. In addi\u00adtion, bil\u00adlow\u00ading para\u00adchute cloth obscures the ceil\u00ading, and a vin\u00adtage dis\u00adco ball hangs from a motor\u00adized assem\u00adbly in the cen\u00adter, sur\u00adround\u00aded by a ring of col\u00adored LED pro\u00adjec\u00adtors on the walls. There is a UV-light poster of a spi\u00adral mount\u00aded on the wall direct\u00adly across from the near\u00adest chair, and a box mount\u00aded on the wall next to the door with a timer switch and a fre\u00adquen\u00adcy dial that oper\u00adate the UV light overhead.<\/p>\n
The dark green fire exit door is at the end of the hall. There is a deep alcove to the right of the door, hold\u00ading more mis\u00admatched met\u00adal fold\u00ading chairs and an eight-foot gener\u00adic white plas\u00adtic fold\u00ading table, and a fold\u00ading step\u00adstool. Typ\u00adi\u00adcal, gener\u00adic, bland, necessary.<\/p>\n
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The first room on the left in the hall is intend\u00aded for class\u00ades, but also for watch\u00ading movies or TV pro\u00adgrams, and pos\u00adsi\u00adbly even a reg\u00adu\u00adlar D&D session.<\/p>\n
Speak\u00ading of a web search, these are the only two things that I found that are in any way relevant:<\/p>\n