by The Vigilant Citizen
“Unspoil Me” offers to make you forget a series you've seen so you can experience it anew.
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “If only a big corporation would hypnotize me and remove a chunk of my memory”? If you have, what’s wrong with you? Well, you’re in luck anyway.
Samsung’s Swedish online platform hosts a peculiar tool named Unspoil Me — a 23-minute hypnotic session featuring spinning visuals, hypnotic audio, and a hypnotherapist guiding your thoughts. The goal is to trick your mind into forgetting a beloved TV series so you can enjoy it like it’s brand-new.
No, this isn’t a prank. The company appears to be fully committed to this concept. The session was developed by certified hypnotists Ulf Sandström and Fredrik Praesto. Before starting, users must agree to certain terms and conditions, which include:
The tool also requires participants to wear headphones, find a quiet, distraction-free environment, and watch the entire session without interruptions. It further recommends getting a full night’s sleep before revisiting the “forgotten” TV show.
Hypnosis Experience
Once the session begins, hypnotic visuals rotate on the display as the hypnotist introduces himself. The atmosphere is deeply unsettling, and the fact that his voice resembles a James Bond antagonist does nothing to ease that feeling. Then the music kicks in, and the hypnotist instructs the listener to concentrate on the rotating pattern.
Next, the participant is told to count backward from 300 while the hypnotist repeats phrases about descending to a “deeper level.” At a certain moment, the listener visualizes a staircase of 10 steps leading down to an even “deeper level.” The hypnotist then guides the participant down those stairs while narrating a tale about an emperor and a mathematician. A great deal of neuro-linguistic programming is at play here.
Afterward, the listener is told to imagine a linear timeline and recall when they first watched the TV show. The hypnotist directs the listener to “drift” to a spot on the timeline that precedes the show. Once that’s achieved, the listener is told to zoom back, at incredible speed, to the “present.”
Finally, the hypnotist declares that the show will become a “tiny blurry image” in the subject’s mind. He adds that, during the following night’s sleep, one of the listener’s dreams will “lock in” everything accomplished during the session.
Stop Being Creepy
These days, major tech firms aren’t content just selling products to consumers. They want to monitor them, gather their data, and ideally manipulate their thoughts and behaviors. Although this hypnosis site may be a quirky marketing gimmick to push TV sales, it nonetheless reveals the mindset of these corporate giants.
It takes a great deal of trust to willingly undergo a hypnosis session run by a corporation. Who knows what extra suggestions might be hidden within? Yet the unsettling aspects don’t end there.
In the real world, electroshock therapy is employed to remove “painful memories” from individuals to treat depression and PTSD. In more sinister circles, hypnosis and electroshock are used to erase, alter, and rebuild the memories of trauma victims — a key component of mind control.
Given that context, the name of the hypnosis site — Unspoil Me — feels quite troubling. Yes, it refers to removing TV show spoilers. But it also hints at the grim reality of memory-erasure methods: “unspoiling” the minds of people who have been “spoiled” by crime, trauma, or abuse.
So, did the hypnosis actually work? I can’t say. Would I ever submit to that nonsense? One thing I’m certain of is that I ABSOLUTELY MUST PURCHASE A SHINY NEW SAMSUNG TELEVISION RIGHT AWAY.
