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The Power of Psycho hypnosis
In the 1960 classic horror film "Psycho", a man named Norman Bates murders his mother and her lover. He was so overwhelmed by guilt when he did this, that he erased the murder from his mind, convinced himself that his mother was still alive and more maniacal than ever, he even made himself believe a false reality in which her lover died in a horrible way to please himself. "And the way he died, well I guess it's nothing to talk about while you're eating."
When I first saw this, I thought that the strength to manipulate reality in your own mind by will alone was horrific, and I thought, "Man, if only I could do that."
We all have horrific moments in our lives, in which not only do we blame the world for provoking it, but ourselves as well. Even a young and naive high school student like me believes that their lives are horrible, in fact, you are most emotional in high school.
And I've tried desperately to convince myself of a false reality, and I have failed. I continuously fail to convince myself of a reality that pleases me, like Norman did.
Is it possible to hypnotize your self in such a way without any outside help? To conceive a world of your liking in your own mind with will alone in the way Norman Bates did?
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"We believed the world would not be the same, a few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent, I remembered a line from the Hindu scripture, the bagavagita, Vishnu was trying to convince the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, he takes on his multi-armed form and says, Now I have become death, destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, in one way or another"
-Robert J Oppenheimer, The atomic bomb
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