Samsung’s Swedish site includes a bizarre feature called Unspoil Me – a 23-minute hypnosis session comprised of swirling patterns, mesmerizing music and a hypnotherapist controlling your mind. The aim is to get your brain to forget your favorite TV show in order for you to watch it again – as if it was the first time.
Notice, Samsung is the company which the CIA has an ability to hack into their TV cameras to watch you.
Some 4Channers took the ride just to see what it was like, and said they felt strangely sleepy through the hypnosis and energized after it. My concern would be you are developing the ability to be hypnotized, which I would imagine is like a muscle – the more you do it, the easier it becomes to do, and maybe the more you like it.
With this, it is also possible you are “practicing” the ability to lose memories, and perhaps take your brain back to an earlier level of functioning. Don’t forget, you get more conservative and independent as you get older. If you developed the ability to wipe experiences from a vast swath of the public, could you make them more liberal, and more desirous of governmental control and nanny-stating?
I’m from the CIA, and I’m here to help you remember how to be happy.
This could be innocent, but I am getting more paranoid by the day, especially with regard to our European brothers, whose governments seem to have some strange endgame that as of yet is not clear – but which appears to involve a destruction of all of old Western Cvilization, and the people who like it.
Spread r/K Theory, because somebody has a target on your back
If you want to think of how it went in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey’s awful memories of his bad relationship helped him outgrow it, too.
Poor implications for interpersonal relations
(inb4 roasties btfo)
>This could be innocent
Lol, there is nothing innocent left when we’re talking with companies as by as Samsung.
AND ON TOP OF THAT, ITS THE SWEDISH BRANCH.
Also, the idiots who tried this shit have no idea of what suggestions and commands are being implanted. Bad idea to mess with it.
I’m a certified (non-commercially-practicing) hypnotherapist. I use hypnosis in my private life, and women love it. You would be amazed at what they will do, especially after repeat sessions. They get like junkies for it.
In the same way, I am shocked how people let people f*ck with their minds through things like hypnosis YouTube videos. FFS, learn how to do it to others, don’t learn how to make it easy for others to do it to you.
Can I just ask a couple of questions?
Hypothetically speaking, suppose you weren’t trained in hypnosis, but you wanted to take the courses and get certified (not for commercial practice), and you might be a target of some elite intel operation, and they can exert influence over anyone with any sort of governmental certification/licensure.
Can you take the courses while protecting yourself from any covert manipulation of your thought processes, if you have a good grasp of the theory behind hypnosis via books on it? What are the risks of seeking professional training? I don’t think I am naturally suggestible, if that helps. I’m mainly concerned that a real master of the art might be able to weasel their way in, in insidious ways before I get a good handle on the practical application of the art.
Also, how often do you need to use it to maintain the ability to execute it proficiently? How do you maintain proficiency?
Too many questions, but a couple of basic points: people go into trance all the time naturally, many times a day. People are subjected to hypnotic techniques and language from every quarter. Getting training in hypnosis helps you learn how to recognize various techniques, and to understand when you’re going into trance, if you don’t want to get in-person training, there are lots of good books, tapes and videos you can buy, buy some NLP mp3s while you’re at it.
IT probably is innocent, until it has a wide swath under it’s influence. Then it will be mighty tempting.
Just when I think I’m ready to start writing a science fiction story starting in the year 2093, the 2020-50 period keeps looking stranger.
muscle is the wrong idea. Use of a muscle makes it stronger. This is more like an addiction path, where use makes one more vunverable to laps.
Speaking of hypnosis, which I know next to nothing about beyond what Scott Adams says. But it seems to me that meditation might be a distant relative of hypnosis – have you done any investigation into meditation? I personally do not have any formal education around the topic, nor deep experience/special knowledge. However, with those caveats, I recently started experimenting with meditation for better management of amygdala response.
For me this meditation investigation is connected to 3 things I’ve been studying of late, two of which are probably not germane expand on. One however, is that I’ve been reading Principles by Ray Dalio, which is an interesting read and, among may other things, highlights the benefits of being aware when the amygdala is exerting influence over our behavior, and how to be become more conscious of this, and the benefits that can accrue when you’re able to exercise “tools” you can develop which make you more aware of the influence the subconscious has on your decision making process.
What I’ve found is that, I’m not particularly good at meditating (yet), but where I have had some limited success, I’ve noticed a more calm mind, feeling refreshed, and ultimately helping me “get outside of my head” and exert more control over my thought processes. The reason that I asked if you’ve looked into meditation, is that it strikes me that some of the meditation-lead tools I’ve used (see the smartphone app called “Headspace” if you’re interested), while immensely helpful in terms of being a guided process, also strike me as having the potential for hypnosis.
In any case, I’m not sure how closely hypnosis and meditation are related but the amygdala connection in both is obvious, and as I’m new to the topic wondered if you have any knowledge you could share that might be relevant to the context I outlined.
I had looked into meditations a while back, and it seemed there were a couple of kinds. One (Buddhist, I believe) sought to use mantras and relaxation to turn off the amygdala, and the other (Tibetan?) focused on replaying trials and challenges in the mind as you mediated, visualizing overcoming them, so you were focusing on stress.
It struck me that one would acclimate the amygdala to ease, and make encountering difficulties more triggering, while the other could acclimate you to hardship. But I am not trained, nor do I spend a lot of time doing one or the other to see firsthand.