I’m a freeze/fawn, but it didn’t occur to me that it was a freeze response! You explained it so well. I guess because it felt like I was in a trance. It felt like he was physically holding me in place and I couldn’t move. Yes I was terrified, and I still feel it; my heart speeds up just reliving it. I got out of there as quickly as I could, and had to squeeze by him because of where he was sitting, and I’m sure he felt my nerves: heart racing and shaking.

I never thought of hypnosis as the crazy kind portrayed on tv where they can make you do anything; so I did know it wasn’t that. I guess it seemed like he was trying to control and intimidate me, and since it worked it felt like a trance-like state that I pictured as being hypnosis.