Thinking is for...
by lazysatanicgoth
Hi! I wrote this hastily in like 40 minutes while sleep deprived cause I got turned on by a scene earlier that day. This may be terrible! I hope you enjoy 🖤
A faint stream guides me gently down a familiar path. Gentle waves run along my body as I flow through that knowing route.
“Now, I’m going to attach a helmet to you. This helmet is special – it has the power to make whoever wears it a little stupider. They forget some words here and there, some phrases, some thoughts… their mind just dulls. It’s a wonderful thing. I’m going to put it on you now.”
“How does that feel?”
“Weird,” I let out, followed by a soft giggle.
“Really weird,” I manage to get out after I-don’t-know-how-long of giggling.
Thoughts start to course through my head. The sensation is so unlike anything else. I start to think of mathematical functions that are… what’s the word… asym… asymmetrical? No, that’s not it. Asym… They go down, more and more, each bit… I… I don’t know.
I don’t know.
“This helmet has a special function – this amazing feature – it has a dial on the back,” I hear, struggling to process the words as much as I just hear them and know them. “What that dial does, is, every time I put it up, it makes you a little dumber, makes it a little harder to think, makes you forget more words and more thoughts and more sentences. It’s at a one right now, and I’m going to put it up, okay?”
“I’m going to turn it up now, up to a five.”
“How does that feel?”
The few thoughts that are there are… They’re like, they’re not as there as they were there before… Like, before, they were –
I softly nod after a moment of ‘thinking’.
“Now I want you to let that word fade away out of your mind. Let it gently pass out, dissipating and falling away out of your brain. Forgetting it.”
“Now, can you tell me what a computer is?”
“Open your eyes for me. What do you see in front of you?”
“A monitor!”
“That’s okay, that’s a good answer. And tell me, what’s that monitor connected to?”
“Is it the internet?”
It’s at seven now, I think. I think?
“Mmph.” My lips curl into a little smile.
I nod. A second passes.
“That’s good. How does that feel?” She grins.
“And what do you think about that?” It almost looks evil now.
“Do you know what your name is?”
“And what my name is?”
“You’re being so very good. And how are your traffic lights?”
“Excellent.”
Click. Click. Click. Ten.
“Thinking is for other people.”
“Thinking is for other people.”
“That feels nice, doesn’t it?”
“It feels right.”
“Who is thinking for?”
I look. Thinking is for other people. Screen. Messages. Thinking is for other people. The words. They have different words, but all I see is,
The names.
The photos.
The thoughts.
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