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i've been through some hypnotism, and I've done some hypnotism. Covert, knowing, accidental, hypnotism-adjacent trances induced by substances or circumstances, all the fun stuff. I've got to talk about it somewhere so here I am. Now count backwards from one to ten and see how you feel about my profile image.

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from los osos, ca! and if you want I can show you the sinkhole as well. it lived up to the sign

imahypnotist

This can also double as an effective induction!

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the psychological impact that the curious george clown college episode had on me cannot be underestimated

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every. single. time i find myself in a stairwell. please tell me im not alone here.

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okay so for context. curious george (the 2006 pbs kids show) is fairly grounded. if you look beyond the premise of a monkey who is also a human child who lives with his inexplicably wealthy eccentric gay adoptive dad in nyc.

but the clown college just does fucking whatever. none of the students act like students. none of the professors act like professors. they solely do clown shit, to the point where the elevators are unusable

so while the eccentric gay man tries to find a parking spot (which is difficult because so much of the weirdly large parking lot is dedicated to elephants), george decides to take the stairs by himself

and so we’re taken away from the wonder and whimsy of the clown college, and the majority of the episode takes place in this completely ordinary, slightly dingy stairwell. occasionally interrupted by a clown. and george just goes up and down and up and down, struggling to get to the floors he needs to get to because he’s like four years old and barely knows how to count

imahypnotist

Have you uh, heard of the concept of a stairway induction in hypnosis? Because it sounds like this episode accidentally hypnotized a lot of children, or made them have potentially very bad reactions to future stairway inductions, or both.

crazysodomite

Roasted Vegetables So Good You’ll Forget...

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

scalloped potatoes that take the pain away

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beef that makes you someone it didn't happen to

faeriejars

miller: you ever get so tired you start seeing spiders

ocelot: me after i hypnotize myself and start seeing the sorrow man

miller: THE WHO

ocelot: oh this not a safe space suddenly

peacockplanet

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(Read @dosydoscomic to catch up with the time twins!)

evilwizard

okay im gonna hypnotize you with my ruby amulet now DONT BE WEIRD ABOUT IT. im doing this to make you betray the king. IT IS NOT A SEX THING

violet-hady

I think the fact that you immediately thought about clarifying it’s not a sex thing kinda makes it sound like it is a sex thing.

evilwizard

FOOL. i would be using my sex amulet for that

quark-art

had to draw this

omishu

I haven't read it yet, but I think this is what @pangur-and-grim's new book Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die is about

peacockplanet

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Let me tell you something. It is difficult being in this chair. It is difficult staying calm while someone adjusts my pain and every other sort of emotion with technology I can't possibly understand. It is especially difficult trying to remember anything of my past with a memory that's full of more holes than a cheesecloth.

But at least I'm not inside that cell anymore. I'm not moving around cinder blocks with my mind just to keep them from beating me. I've got someone on my side, or at least... as close to my side as I think anyone will get in this place.

// Epsilon? Are you still registering telepathy? //

// Yes. // I'm surprised by how relieved I am to hear Zeta "talk."

// Good. I tested speaking aloud and you didn't quite hear me. I'm going to have to assume you won't hear spoken language for the foreseeable future. Telepathy is pretty normal to use here in the more administrative area of the base, but the system is designed to log spoken language during certain procedures. At some times I will need you to just say certain things aloud so that we can proceed. Can you do that for me? //

I want to say of course I'll do that for him. Only, something holds me back. // You're asking me to repeat whatever you say out loud, when you specify me to? //

// Is there a problem with that, Epsilon? //

// No. // There shouldn't be, right? I can just talk when he needs. It's not hard, right? // Only... //

// Yes? // Mild curiosity. A hint of concern. Or is that impatience?

// I just... keep thinking of before. Before you pulled me out of the cell. I did a lot of repeating, I think. //

// You think? // Zeta prods, verbally and, I can feel, psychically. // That's good to report to me. What's happening in your mind? //

// When I think about what happened in the cell, the thoughts get blurry, somehow, fogged like glass. It's so hard to recall them. //

A few tapping sounds. He must be using his equipment. // And when you try to recall them, the memories get foggier? //

// Yes! It's very frustrating! //

// I'm sorry it's frustrating. // A few more tapping sounds. // When you try to remember the experience right now, does it still feel that way? Foggy, difficult to recall? //

// I... a little, yes. // I think through my thoughts, feeling them over like I'm smoothing out a sheet. // It feels different now. //

// It feels different now, like it's easier to recall what you want to recall? Would you say your memory is improving? //

// I... yes. //

A few more taps. // Go ahead and 'say' that, then. //

// My memory is improving. // A sensation brushes over my temples, alien but also deeply affirming. It encloses my head... my thoughts.

// Good. Say it one more time. // A few more taps.

// My memory is improving. //

Reality bends for a moment, maybe breaks, and my thoughts feel freer. More complete. Sturdier, even.

// There. Try recalling what happened before, when someone else asked you to repeat words. What words did they get you to repeat, Epsilon? //

// Don't speak. Just wait. Just wait for the signal. Just keep lifting blocks until then. Just keep busy and do labor. //

// Do you feel the compulsion to obey those words, Epsilon? // A few more taps.

// No. I don't. // My thoughts, for all that Zeta might be doing to them, feel more free than they've been in years.