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Developed by Samsung Electronics Nordic in partnership with famous Swedish hypnotist and mental coach Fredrik Praesto, UnSpoil Me is a service which apparently allows users to hypnotise themselves into forgetting plot points and plot twists.
The session takes about 18 minutes and is self-guided in the sense that users follow a series of on-screen prompts and Praesto’s commands through his soothing and melodic voice.
The gist is that Praesto will encourage you to think of the show or film you’d like to forget about while you stare at a rainbow-coloured spiral that spins towards the middle of your phone screen, and listen to the ambient music playing in the background.
The image on the screen then will start to shift as Praesto tells you to relax and count backwards from 300. When you’re done, the session will end with the message “hypnosis complete” and the suggestion to “take a couple of deep breaths and focus on how your body and mind feels”.
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We think the whole thing is weird and creepy, but Praesto insists that “Under self-hypnosis, we can take control of the unconscious process. This can be very effective in creating mental changes in a person which the conscious logical mind cannot achieve.”
He adds that “Throughout history, hypnosis has been used to forget things, often for therapeutic purposes. With UnSpoil Me, we can use this to create new experiences instead”.
UnSpoil Me has attracted some criticisms that using something as powerful as hypnosis to erase a spoiler or a whole film from memory seems inane.
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Could we just use UnSpoil Me to forget that there’s such an app in the world now?
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