Talk:Mindscrubbing/@comment-4849011-20160815001526

To comment on what was said below, “telegraphing” is a slang term for when an athlete, like a boxer or a baseball pitcher, does something to indicate his or her next move to the opponent. With that said, dang, this was one creepy ride! Dang!

There were small yet disturbing details (such as “The boy was so frightened that he only appeared to quiver slightly, like a defenseless animal in a science lab,” “The Protectors gently caressed his soapy hair, churning up the creamy lather in an attempt to lull the disturbed patient,” “The brain shampoo was pre-lathered so that it could scrub out all the unnecessary thoughts of Darius’s cranial cavity and leave it handsomely spotless without a trace of free will,” the lather turning pink, and the smile on Darius’s/Patient 59’s face) yet also moments of dark humor (such as “His hair would feel shiny and clean, but his brain would be completely spotless,” there being a conditioner along with the shampoo, and the very concept of a literal brainwashing). Poor Darius not knowing how he got there, what was happening around him, or what his “treatment” entailed, as well as the “Protectors” being so methodical, was scary enough, and the fact that you based this on 1950s mental institutions added a whole new chilling and sinister layer to the story. There are a lot of creepy layers to this, such as the “Advisor” most likely having been a victim of this herself.

I do have one quick question (though it probably doesn’t matter too much). I get that the ear nozzles emitted sound waves that affected the subject (I caught that the shampoo was applied through the pump nozzles in the temples while the ear nozzles pulsed waves of sound), but was the hair washing meant to help soothe the subject into compliance? In any case, I don’t want to know what the next stages of the treatment are!