Joel knew that hypnosis required channels. Whether it was influencing sensory perception such as vision, auditory, touch, smell, or directly through drugs or other substances, producing effects within the human body, whatever abilities used to carry out the hypnotic effect, it always required a trigger, an event, a process.
But drawing from his extensive experiences with hypnosis, Joel carefully pondered his past series of experiences, reflecting on every sensory detail. He found nothing out of the ordinary and remained clueless as to when the hypnosis was induced.
Even now, he still couldn't precisely determine whether the little girl in a white dress he saw on the real-time surveillance feed and the advertisement he had heard just now existed in reality or were purely illusions.
If he was under the influence, perceiving illusions, he was confident he could discern them.
But according to his method, neither the image he saw nor the sound he heard seemed like illusions.
