When I agreed to get hypnotised by Mohit Rao, I had expected more drama. He’d joked he wouldn’t get me to bark or sing. But I expected him to snap his fingers to wake me up at least. The dramatics were less, true. But the result, brilliant! u00a0When I meet Rao, who calls himself a mind reader, at a coffee shop, he asks me to imagine a waterfall and climb down a series of imaginary footsteps— seven at a time. This is part of his seven-step technique.