The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 1941 U transcends major events (58)
"I have seen in horror movies before that psychiatrists can hypnotize patients by asking them to lie on a bed and talk to them, allowing them to do all kinds of horrible things, including killing people. This is Really?"

Spider-Man looked at Bruce and asked, because he still remembered that when Bruce played this part of the film, he once said that this personality trait called manipulation is best at hypnosis.

"Yes and no." Bruce gave a neutral answer, and then explained: "Hypnosis cannot directly control people to do things. In most cases, it is an in-depth psychological therapy, but more of it uses It helps patients reveal their inner secrets and relieves their mental stress.”

"When people are sober, they will find it difficult to talk about many things. It does not mean that they intentionally conceal what they have done, but the descriptions are often inaccurate and tend to be biased."

Bruce said it tactfully, and Lord Superman said directly: "Everyone in this world will beautify their behavior. Some people can describe deliberate murder as unintentional harm, and some people describe drug abuse as treating diseases, but where in this world can they be? So many accidents and out of necessity?”

"Not necessarily." Bruce retorted, "Maybe when this happens, people will feel pain, regret and sadness, but the human body's self-healing mechanism is very powerful. In order to avoid pain, their self Consciousness will give them painkillers."

"There are two types of painkillers. One is to dilute the memory, which is commonly known as forgetfulness. The other is to distort the memory. For example, if someone kills a person who does not resist, and is too frightened and painful afterwards, his The brain will add a memory to him, so that a picture of the opponent rushing towards him first will appear in his mind."

"For a period of time, he will know that this scene is his fiction and his excuse, but as time goes by, other real memories will become as blurred as this scene, so they will merge Get up and make it feel like this is real.”

After briefly recalling it, Bruce said: "This kind of situation often occurs when people are young. Many children will tell their parents when they return home that the teacher hurt them or other classmates did something excessive to them, or simply It’s just some weird descriptions, like seeing a ghost.”

"After investigation, it was found that these things did not happen at all, so people felt that the children were deliberately lying, but many times these things were their imagination, and their imagination was just blended into the facts, making it impossible for them to tell the difference."

"The main purpose of hypnotherapy is to find the real truth among these fictitious and beautified memories, and to understand how the incident happened."

"Is this really possible?" Constantine asked, narrowing his eyes.

"I can't do it anyway." Bruce said simply.

Several other people booed, but Arthur seemed to be defending Bruce and said: "It is a very dangerous thing to go deep into other people's hearts. No matter who is it, turning over other people's memories is not like turning over children's memories." A picture album is so simple.”

"Exactly." Bruce nodded, he squinted his eyes slightly, hesitated after thinking, and said: "I think this requires a very special talent to be able to do it with ease, which is the psychoanalytic talent I just mentioned. .”

"Looking at other people's memories is not like solving a crime in reality. All the information and clues you get are virtual, and you only need to find out the unreasonable places based on the clues in this virtual memory, and distinguish the false from the real , this is not only difficult, it can be called a fantasy.”

"It does sound incredible." Spider-Man shook his head slightly and said, "But it's also scary for a psychiatrist to make patients truly reveal their secrets, isn't it?"

"But one problem is that hypnosis requires the cooperation of the other party." Bruce stretched out a finger and came to a relatively counter-intuitive conclusion. He said: "As long as you proceed with the idea of ​​'I will not be hypnotized' If you use hypnosis, you will never be hypnotized, and no matter how talented a psychiatrist is, it is impossible to hypnotize you when you are full of resistance."

Spider-Man seemed to be relieved and said, "That's good. If he looked into my eyes and knew what bad things I said about others in my heart, that would be terrible."

"But there is another way." Bruce changed the topic and said: "This is the only way to perform forced hypnosis."

Everyone looked at him.

"The hypnotized subject cannot know that he is being hypnotized. You cannot let him lie down on the bed, close his eyes, and wait for you to speak. In this way, even a fool will know that you are going to hypnotize him."

Bruce glanced at the screen again, and then said: "But there is a problem. Hypnosis requires a stable, stable and relaxing environment. The more oppressive the environment, the more nervous the patient's psychology, the lower the probability of hypnosis' success, and The requirements for psychiatrists are higher.”

"So, this personality trait called manipulation makes him a pretty powerful psychiatrist?" Constantine asked.

Bruce immediately noticed the shift in Constantine's interest. He slightly raised one corner of his mouth, but quickly calmed down his expression and said, "But there is also a loophole to exploit, and that is the light I mentioned before. "

"But the lights in this bathroom can't create a stable atmosphere, right?" Lord Superman stared at the scene on the screen carefully, and he said: "Isn't this still dark? Isn't there really someone in this kind of environment? Are you relaxing in it?"

"No, lighting is not to relax people, but to shape perception. To be more precise, it is to shape self-perception."

Bruce turned to look at Arthur and said: "Those who have experience working on stage or have participated in film shooting should understand how much impact different lighting has on shaping a person's image."

Arthur clicked his tongue lightly, slowly put down one leg that was on the other leg, stood up, moved his shoulders, raised his head, snapped his fingers at Owen, and said, "Give me a A lamp.”

Owen didn't know what to do, so he could only simulate a stage spotlight and hung it on top of Arthur's head.Arthur stretched out a finger and pointed diagonally above his head, and Owen adjusted the light there. Then Arthur hooked his finger upward, and Owen adjusted the angle of the spotlight higher.

In this way, almost Arthur's entire face is bathed in light, and because the light is very strong and the distance is very close, many details on his face are blurred, even his eyebrows that have always been shrouded in the shadow of his eyebrows. The eyes stand out.

Spider-Man ran to the front of the stage, took one look and exclaimed: "Oh my god, you used to look about the same age as my uncle, but now you are at least 20 years younger, or you are not that old after all." .”

Lord Superman also walked out of his seat, Bruce turned over the table in front of him, and Constantine slowly stood up when he saw this, so that the remaining people came to the opposite side of Arthur.

Now Arthur's face bathed in light not only does not look old, thin and tired as before, but looks fuller, and has a sharp-edged handsomeness, making him look much younger.

Then Arthur raised his finger again, and Owen raised the spotlight. Arthur waved his hand to the side, and the spotlight came directly above him.

The feeling now is a bit scary. There are shadows under the high eyebrows, and the eyes are completely invisible. The shadow of the nose is very long below, like a sharp knife, slicing through the thin lips.

This makes people look very serious and solemn, with a dark solemnity that reminds Lord Superman of Batman.

Then the spotlight slid across a small half circle to the side of the cheek. Now half of the face was illuminated, and the other half of the face was sunken in darkness. On the side full of shadows, the cheekbones, nasolabial folds, and orbicularis The lines of the muscles and jaw are very prominent, which strengthens the bone texture and makes people look older instantly.

When the spotlight comes to the lower side, all the shadows on the facial features become very short, the shadows under the nose and eyebrow arch almost disappear, and the eyes can be seen clearly.

But because the shadows are all turned upward, it's like having natural eye shadow and lipstick, giving people a ridiculous and funny feeling. At the same time, because it goes against common sense, it also has a terrifying effect similar to the uncanny valley effect.

"In the past, when I stood on stage, I would think about how the audience saw me." Arthur said in a very vain tone: "I would check my clothes over and over again, The styling and the lighting on stage.”

"I so sincerely want them to feel what I have in store for them, and I want them to be ridiculous every second they see me, because that's what a clown does."

"But I can't always make everyone laugh." Arthur shook his head slightly, put a finger on his lips, and pressed his lower lip down hard until his gums were exposed. He kept this posture and said.

"Then I realized that they weren't laughing not because I wasn't funny enough, but because they weren't looking at me at all, they weren't paying attention to me, they weren't paying attention to anyone but themselves."

"Later I discovered that it is much easier to be frightened than to be happy."

This time the spotlight came right below Arthur's face, which made the shadows of his facial muscles coincide with the big smile painted on his face with oil paint. When he slightly raised his muscles and smiled, the shadows under his cheekbones When it spreads upward, it looks like two sharp knife edges.

"Just like this, I was able to completely turn into a scary clown, and I was surprised to find that those people who used to smile because they didn't pay attention to me all turned their scary and fearful eyes on me. On my body, they finally see me.”

Arthur raised his head slightly, and the smile grew bigger and bigger with his movements, which reminded others present of the Schiller they saw in their hallucinations.

There was that weird sense of incongruity again. The clown was obviously smiling, but there was no hint of smile on his smiling face. It only made people feel cold fear.

There were screams, howls, and screams. Arthur opened his arms and raised his head completely, as if he was standing in the center of the stage and saying goodbye to everyone. He completely enjoyed this moment.

"People always look down at themselves, but they dare not look directly into their dirty souls. All they see is nothingness."

“And I just make them look up at me, turning their pointless attention into a cry of fearful admiration, a part of my performance that’s greater because it’s further away from themselves.”

Suddenly the lights went out, Arthur retracted his arm, tightened his suit jacket, as if he had done nothing, tilted his head, and the toes of his leather shoes lightly touched the ground.

"Great artists all have a common characteristic. They use their works to manipulate the emotions of the audience. Art, music and dance are more superficial, while some are more profound, such as performance."

Arthur looked past several people and looked at the front screen again, looked at Beibat's expression and said.

"When you are in the environment chosen by the performer, enveloped by the lights he designed, hear his voice, and look at his expression, you become part of the performance and can only be controlled by him."

(End of this chapter)