"I've seen in horror movies before that a psychiatrist can hypnotize a patient by telling them to lie on a bed and talk to them, and make them do all kinds of horrific things, even murder, is this true?"

Spider-Man looked at Bruce and asked, because he remembered that when Bruce was playing this part of the film at that time, he used to say that this personality trait called manipulation was best at hypnosis.

"Yes and no." Bruce gives a neutral answer, then explains: "Hypnosis is not a direct control of what people do, most of the time it is an in-depth psychotherapy, but it is more used to get patients to confide their inner secrets and reduce their mental stress." ”

"When people are sober, they will have a hard time talking about many things, not that they deliberately want to hide what they have done, but the descriptions are often inaccurate and tendentious."

Bruce said very tactfully, and Lord Superman said directly: "Everyone in this world will glorify their actions, some people can portray deliberate murder as unintentional harm, and some people can say that drug use is a cure for disease, but where is there so much chance and necessity in this world?" ”

"Not really." Bruce retorted, saying, "People may feel pain, remorse, and sadness when this happens, but the body's self-healing mechanism is very powerful, and in order to avoid pain, their self-consciousness will give them painkillers." ”

"There are two types of painkillers, either to dilute this memory, which is commonly known as forgetting, and to distort this memory, for example, if someone kills a person who does not resist, and is too scared and painful afterwards, his brain will add a memory to him, so that a picture of the other party rushing towards him first appears in his mind."

"For a while, he will know that this image is his fiction, that he is looking for a reason, but over time, other real memories will become as obscured as this image, and they will merge and make people feel that this is real."

"It's also a common occurrence when people are young, and many children come home and tell their parents that the teacher has hurt them or that other classmates have done something wrong to them, or that it's just something bizarre and weird, like hell," Bruce said. ”

"After the 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, but the imagination was integrated into the facts, so that they couldn't tell the difference."

"The main purpose of hypnotherapy is to find out the real truth in these fictional and glorified memories, to understand how it happened."

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

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

Several of the others booed, but Arthur said, as if defending Bruce, "It is a very dangerous thing to penetrate into the hearts of others, and for anyone, turning over other people's memories is not as simple as flipping through a children's picture book." ”

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

"Checking 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 according to the clues in this virtual memory, and distinguish between the false and the real, which is not only difficult, it can be called fantasy."

"Sounds incredible." Spider-Man shook his head lightly and said, "But it's scary for a psychiatrist to make a patient reveal his secrets, isn't it?" ”

"But there's a problem with hypnosis, which requires the cooperation of the other party." Bruce held out a finger and said a relatively counter-intuitive conclusion, saying: "As long as you hypnotize with the idea of 'I won't be hypnotized,' you will never be hypnotized, and no matter how talented a psychiatrist is, you will not be hypnotized when you are full of resistance." ”

Spider-Man said as if relieved: "That's good, if he looks in my eyes and knows that I have said something bad about others in my heart, it will be terrible." ”

"There's another way, though." Bruce shifted gears and said, "This is the only way to do forced hypnosis." ”

They all looked at him.

"The person being hypnotized can't know that he's being hypnotized, you can't let him lie down on the bed and then let him close his eyes and wait for you to speak, so that the fool knows that you're going to hypnotize him."

Bruce glanced at the screen again, and then said: "But there will be a problem, hypnosis needs a stable, calm, and relaxing environment, the more oppressive the environmental atmosphere, the more nervous the patient's psychology, the lower the probability of success of hypnosis, and the higher the level of the psychiatrist." ”

"So, this so-called manipulative personality trait is quite a powerful psychiatrist?" Konstantin asked.

Bruce immediately sensed Konstantin's shift in interest, and he slightly raised the corners of his mouth, but quickly retracted his expression and said, "But there's also a hole to be exploited, and that's the light I mentioned earlier." ”

"But the lights in this bathroom don't create a peaceful atmosphere, do they?" Lord Superman stared at the scene on the screen carefully, and said, "Isn't this still black?" Is anyone really going to relax in this environment? ”

"No, the light is not meant to relax, it is to shape cognition, or more precisely, self-perception."

Bruce turned to look at Arthur and said, "Anyone who has worked on stage or been involved in film production should understand how much different lighting can affect the way people are portrayed. ”

Arthur pouted slightly, slowly put down one leg on the other leg, stood up and moved his shoulders and raised his head, snapped his fingers at Owen, and said, "Give me a lamp." ”

Owen didn't know what to do, so he could only simulate a stage spotlight and hang it on top of Arthur's head.

Arthur held out a finger and pointed diagonally upwards of his head, and Owen turned the light to that side, and then Arthur hooked his finger upwards, and Owen turned the spotlight up.

In this way, almost the entire face of Arthur was bathed in light, and because of the strong light and the proximity, many details of the face were blurred, and even his eyes, which had been shrouded in the shadow of the arch of his eyebrows, were highlighted.

Spider-Man ran to the front of the stage, took one look, let out an exclamation, and said, "Oh my God, you used to look about my uncle's age, and now you're at least 20 years younger, or maybe you're not that old." ”

Lord Superman also walked out of his seat, Bruce directly turned over the table in front of him, and Konstantin also stood up slowly when he saw this, so that the rest of the people walked opposite Arthur.

Now Arthur's face bathed in light not only did not look old, thin and tired as before, but looked fuller and handsome, and he looked much younger.

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

The feeling was a little scary, there were shadows under the towering arch of the eyebrows, the eyes were completely invisible, and the nose shadow dragged long below, like a sharp knife, cutting through the thin lips.

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

Then the spotlight slid through a small half circle to the side of the cheek, the lower half of the face was illuminated, the other half of the face sank in the dark, and on the side full of shadows, the lines of the cheekbones, nasolabial folds, orbicularis oculi and jaw were very prominent, which strengthened the sense of bone and made people become old all of a sudden.

And when the spotlight comes to the side, all the shadows of the facial features become very short, the shadows of the nose and the shadow under the arch of the eyebrows almost disappear, and the eyes are clearly visible.

But because the shadows are all turned upside down, it's like having natural eyeshadow and lipstick, giving people a sense of ridiculous comical, and at the same time, because of the anti-common sense, there is also a horror similar to the uncanny valley effect.

"In the past, when I was on stage, I would think about what the audience saw me." Arthur said in a very vain tone, "I will check my costumes, my looks, and the lighting on stage over and over again. ”

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

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

"Later I understood 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 realized that it's much easier to be frightening than to be happy."

This time the spotlight came directly below Arthur's face, which made the shadows of his facial muscles coincide with the big smiling face painted on his face in oil paint, and when he lifted his muscles slightly, he smiled, and the shadows under his cheekbones spread upwards like two sharp knife edges.

"Just like that, I was able to become a frightening clown completely, and I was amazed to find that all the people who had not laughed because they had not paid attention to me at all had their horrified and fearful gazes on me, and they finally saw me."

Arthur tilted his head slightly, and the smiling face grew larger and larger with his movements, reminding the others present of the Schiller they had seen in their hallucinations.

It's that weird sense of incongruity again, the clown is obviously laughing, but the smiling face doesn't have half a smile at all, it only makes people feel cold fear.

Screams, cries, screams, Arthur opened his arms and raised his head completely, as if standing in the center of the stage to call everyone, he completely enjoyed the moment.

"People always look down at themselves, but they don't dare to look directly at their filthy souls, they see nothing but nothingness."

"And I just let them look up at me, and turn their meaningless attention into a cry of appreciation out of fear, a part of my performance, made greater by being further away from themselves."

Suddenly, the lights went out, and Arthur withdrew his arm, tightened his blazer, and tilted his head as if he had done nothing, the tips of his leather shoes lightly tapping the ground.

"Great artists all have one thing in common, they use their work to manipulate the emotions of the viewer, art, music and dance are more superficial, while some are more in-depth, such as performance."

Arthur's gaze crossed over to the front screen again, looked at Bei Ba's expression and said.

"When you're in the environment that the performer has chosen, when you're enveloped by the lighting he designs, when you hear his voice, when you look at his expression, you're part of the performance, and you're at his disposal."

(End of chapter)