She stayed like that for maybe 3 or 4 minutes. I held my breath and tried to send the message again. She lowered her hand and sat down on the floor. I found that you cannot push ESP or hypnotic events. You cannot make anyone do something that they don't want to do, and most people do not want to feel stupid or ridiculed.
Stage hypnosis does just that.
It can be very embarrassing to a person when they realize what the hypnotist had them doing in front of a room of laughing people. Anyway, we continued our experiments over the next few months with increasing success. Sherry, the subject, was able to accurately identify the first three commands I sent to her telepathically, no matter how complicated. Then she would consistently fail on the fourth attempt. In any case I would not try to push her to get the fourth command.