Choose Your Own Brainwashing, Day 5 (Patreon)

When did your eyes close? You’re not quite sure, but it feels so right to simply sit and listen. And somehow you know that everyone else’s eyes are closed, too. You can sense that everyone else on the train has fully succumbed to the mesmerizing voice. You all breathe in unison and wait, poised on the edge of a moment, for the voice to speak again.

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How much time passes while you wait? Is it an instant or an hour? You don’t know, and you don’t care because you are content to just sit and breathe and wait.

“Are you familiar with the idea of brainwashing?” asks the voice.

Perhaps you can imagine what it would be like if I were to brainwash you.

There are many ways to be brainwashed.

Some people prefer to be brainwashed by a machine, perhaps an electronic helmet or a device that bombards your mind with sights and sounds that it can’t resist.

Some people prefer to be brainwashed with chemicals, something injected into their veins against their will and used to turn their mind against them.

Some people prefer to be brainwashed by mantras, repeating a particular phrase over and over while on their knees before their brainwasher.

Some people prefer to be brainwashed the old-fashioned way, staring at a swinging watch or a spinning crystal, or even a spiral projected onto a wall.”

What form would you like your brainwashing to take?

1. By a machine.
2. With chemicals.
3. Mantras.
4. Staring at an hypnotic object.