The Bro Cap

The Bro Cap: Temporary Dumbing for Smart Jocks

Being a dumb jock is a horny idea; who wouldn't want to be a goofy frat bro who thinks with his dick once in a while?  Unfortunately, being stupid in real life is often a serious handicap that tends to get in the way of being successful in life.  Overall, most people would be better off being smarter overall, but intelligence often comes with a tendency to overthink and be nerdy.

I created the Smart Jock system to give the user a way to smarten up and get fitter overall through the Cognitive Benefit of Exercise,  but I also promised a way to "make it easy and natural for you to control the level of your intelligence so you can be a dumb jock with the bros while letting yourself be maximally smart while studying or at work." The Bro Cap fulfills that promise by giving you a mechanism to dumb down to exactly the level of IQ that is pleasing to your dim bro fetish when desired, while providing a reliable return to baseline intelligence through a period of enhanced thinking; so that you can be a stupid frat boy when it suits you while getting smarter overall.

The Bro Cap Script

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way

To turn off your brain for a while

And then turn it back on when you need it?

That's why I invented the Bro Cap:

A simple Hypnotic trigger that creates

A sort of anti-thinking cap 

which inhibits Access to 

all of your knowledge and intelligence

Whenever you wear it, 

that leaves you smart as ever

The moment the cap is removed. 

If that sounds like a good idea to you

All you have to do is keep on listening.

Now I want you to lay back and relax

And picture yourself on a fluffy white cloud

Far away from your troubles and cares… 

Lay back atop the cloud and float

Comfortable and relaxed and safe

High above the world below. 

Far away from all of your problems

Lost in the pleasure of trance.

It feels so good to be hypnotized 

Free from the burden of thinking 

Blissful and relaxed. 

Mindless and obedient.

Open and receptive to all of my ideas.

Most of the time it's good to be smart

As intelligence is an advantage in most things.

But sometimes it sucks to be surrounded by

Idiots and unable to function at their level;

Or sometimes you just get exhausted from

Thinking too much and wish you could turn it off

And just be a dumb jock frat bro for a day.

We could all use a little temporary relief from 

The burdens of intelligence once in a while. 

Frat boys are the perfect example of how 

Otherwise intelligent people can be dumb 

When given the social license to do so.

Fraternity brothers got into college, 

Many frat bros have hard majors, 

And the Greeks generally get decent grades 

And go on to have intellectually demanding

Jobs after finishing college. 

Yet they remain the very icon of stupidity 

Because frat boys are allowed to turn off 

Their brains and just be dumb jocks 

To provide relief from the stress of

Constantly using their brains for study.

They just turn their hats backwards 

And have permission to be stupid for the day.

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could just put on 

Your bro cap and let go of the need to impress

People with your intelligence for a while?

Just be a dumb horny jock and

think with your cock instead of using your brain.

Just relax and the comfort of idiocy can be yours.

Just let yourself sink down into the pink fog

And let your intelligence fade away now.

It feels good to let your mind rest 

And just stop thinking about all the things

That you usually spin your head about. 

This is what they mean when they say that

Ignorance is bliss. 

A shame stupidity is hard to live with.

What if you could experience this bliss 

On a regular basis without impairing the use

Of your intelligence when you need to be smart?

With a bro cap you can choose to be 

Exactly as dumb as you want to be 

For however long you wish to remain stupid, 

Then simply take off the hat when you are done

And come back even smarter than before.

Now I want you to imagine your bro cap: 

Maybe it's a simple baseball cap, 

Maybe it's a snapback with a team logo, 

It doesn't really matter much what it looks like

Just as long as you know which one it is.

Now bend down and dip your hat into the cloud

And let that wonderful cotton candy pink fog

Absorb into your new bro cap. 

Your bro cap has an infinite supply of fog, 

That you can use to cloud your mind.

Simply put the hat on like a bro, 

with the logo and bill to the back of your head

And that wonderful pink fog begins to

Permiate your mind, absorbing your thoughts

Making you intellectually lazy 

and disinclined to think seriously

For as long as the hat remains backwards

You find it impossible to think serious thoughts

Only the silly, shallow and dumb ideas 

get through the cotton candy in your mind, 

Denying you access to all the knowledge

That you obtained through education and study,

Leaving only your knowledge about about

The things that dim bros care about like:

partying, Pop culture, sports, music and sex

Able to get through the fog and be expressed. 

There will be plenty of time to think about

Serious things later when the fog clears. 

For now you just need to turn off your brain 

And enjoy dumbing down and being simple. 

Comfortably ignorant of all of your troubles

Unaware of the all the complications of the world

Free to simply experience things Without

having to think too hard about any of it.

For as long as you wear your bro cap, 

You can be as dumb as you want to be. 

Entertainment designed for stupid people

Becomes enormously entertaining to you. 

You find lowbrow humor absolutely hilarious

Whenever you have your bro cap on. 

You find it easy and natural to fit in 

With idiots when you are wearing it, 

And you find yourself enjoying shallow banter, 

Devoid of any intellectual content with them. 

Dumb boys have more fun. 

Be dumb, have fun, do stupid shit, 

Enjoy your idiocy for as long as you like, 

And then, when you are ready to think again, 

You simply remove the bro cap from your head, 

Or turn your hat with the brim to the front 

And the fog quickly clears from your mind. 

And your intelligence returns to normal or better

Once you have finished resting your brain.

Taking off the bro cap always makes you feel

Really smart after the hat is removed. 

You have instant access to all of your knowledge

Whenever you choose to access it again. 

Removing the cap completely removes all 

Cognitive impairment caused by this hypnosis

And unlocks your full intelligence completely.

So that you are as smart as you can be 

Immediately after the cap comes off, 

Fully aware of the contrast to the prior state

And noticing how much better you can think, 

Happy to be restored to mental clarity. 

So that you can use your intelligence 

To solve your problems and make money

And have all the intelligent conversation

With smart people that you truly enjoy, 

And keep all the other benefits of being smart; 

Safe in the knowledge that you can also 

Let go of that intelligence when it suits you

By putting on your bro cap and dumbing down

For a little while when you feel like it.

Yet, even if your conscious mind is

As dumb as a box of rocks with the bro cap on

Your subconscious mind still has access to

All of the information stored in your brain 

And it will keep you safe from exploitation

By quietly monitoring the situation 

Such that if anyone tries to take advantage

Of your stupidity to exploit you financially

Or get you to do something illegal it produces

An irresistible impulse to remove the cap, 

Such that the fog clears and intelligence is 

Instantly restored to above normal levels

The moment that the bro cap is removed.

[Awakener]

AWAKENER

There are 10 steps down now

To return from your fluffy white cloud

And come back to the waking world. 

10. Step down from the top 

of your fluffy white cloud

into the cool mist below.

Letting the fog fill your mind

erasing your conscious memory

Of all the suggestions in this file. 

9. Accepting all the suggestions

You have heard on the fluffy white cloud

Completely and totally as you step down. 

8. Remembering only the pleasure of flying

And the fact that you were powerfully entranced.

7. Feeling the weight returning 

As you come back down to earth. 

6. Becoming more and more aware of your body

As you begin to come back to full consciousness. 

5. Becoming aware of the outside world again

As you return to your body

And your senses begin to awaken. 

4. Finding yourself more and more aware now as the fog clears from your mind.

3. Getting closer and closer to consciousness now

Intelligence fully restored to normal again.

2. Beginning to stir, almost ready to get up now. 

And 1... You wake up feeling alert and refreshed

Remembering the pleasure of flying

And ready to go on with your day.

Is Hypnosis Real?

Is Hypnosis Real?

Probably the most common question hypnotists get from people who have never been hypnotized is whether or not what we do is a real thing.  I've seen more than one bookstore stock hypnosis books along with parapsychology and books on ESP.  I find it interesting that this question persists despite the fact that science has amassed quite a lot of evidence in favor; and I'll be glad to show you a little ways down the page that it is, in fact, a provably real thing; but while there's still some doubt in the mind I'd like to explore this limiting belief and why it exists.

When I encounter this belief in the world, as a hypnotist I automatically look for the reasons why this person might hold the belief in order to engage them and convince them more effectively.  In my personal experience there are three common causes that ultimately serve the desire to avoid it being real: simple ignorance, flawed reality checking, and deep philosophical objections.

Ignorance:

The ignorant person usually hasn't thought the issue through very thoroughly.  For them hypnosis is a thing they see in comic books and TV shows and usually gets classed cognitively as a "superpower" that only exists in the movies.  They explain the stage shows as social entertainments akin to shows full of magic tricks where the performer either pays confederates or tricks audience members into compliance by a process assumed to be similar to stage magic.

Those who object out of ignorance are probably the easiest class to convince since they easily accept the mountain of scientific evidence on the subject.

Scientific Proof

Studies have shown that trance states are neurologically distinct from normal waking and sleeping states and are characterized on an EEG by an increasingly widespread synchronization of brainwaves which slowly decrease in frequency until they stabilize somewhere in the lower theta band above sleep but below normal consciousness or even meditative states.  On an fMRI or CAT scan you'd see a marked reduction in activity of most of the frontal lobe, a moderate reduction across the board with hot spots in the visual and auditory corteces and deep brain regions responsible for focused attention.

Likewise, many studies exist on the effectiveness of suggestion for a wide variety of psychological and physical conditions, being demonstrated to outperform drugs in control of physical pain and standard counseling in both weight loss and smoking cessation. So if the science is settled then why does the question persist?

Deep Philosophical Objections 

Perhaps the most common objection to the reality of hypnosis on philosophical grounds is the argument that "Hypnosis is a method for manipulating thoughts; thoughts and experiences aren't real and therefore neither is hypnosis." In this case the philosopher is a strict materialist whose definition of reality is "only things that physically exist are real" To this objector I point out that opinions are also a subclass of thoughts and therefore hypnosis is, by logic, exactly as real as his opinion of it.

Since there's a whole other school of philosophy dedicated to the proposition that subjective experiences are real I'll neglect that aspect for the moment and argue within the objector's framing of the question and answer with a question of my own: "Is the document you're reading real?" I typed it into blogger directly, and as far as I know it's never been printed out; yet I can write it and you can read it, so clearly it exists.  How?  As a pattern of 1s and 0s encoded as quantities of electrons in the cells of the memory of a server somewhere.  Now look up at the picture in the previous section: that brain scan shows a pattern of activation in the cells of the brain, which must be every bit as real as the 1s and 0s of the picture showing it to you.  It's fixed in a tangible form down in the physical layer and therefore exists in a purely physical sense.  

The root of this error is to fail to recognize the fact that a phenomenon that happens up in what computer scientists would call the data layer has roots that go all the way down to the physical layer; and therefore this argument should be classed with all the other zombie arguments in philosophy that somehow manage to persist despite being disproven by science. 

A similar cognitive error underlies the strict objectivist's objection that hypnosis should be classed as non-real because it is a subjective experience.  Since the objectivist definition of real is "only things that can be perceived by others are real" the error is not failing to realize that there's a physical layer underneath so much as failing to realize that hypnosis is an interpersonal phenomenon.  One person plants ideas in the other person's mind and they act on them.  Though the ideas and experiences themselves are necessarily non-real in an objectivist framework, most of the things that make it hypnosis are: the language encoding them, the social interaction, the brain scan results and the behaviors produced are all unavoidably labeled "things that can be objectively verified by others" and therefore real in this philosophical framework. 

The remaining objectors would be the solipsistic types who only accord reality to their own personal experiences.  Since this philosophy denies the entirety of the external world this is a personal empirical question for them so I invite you to try it and find out if hypnosis exists in your personal reality.  If your experience verifies it then you are forced to concede it's real from your perspective.  Even if you're laying in a pod plugged into The Matrix somewhere, hypnosis is still real for you if the code of The Matrix allows you to experience it.  

Most other possible philosophical positions tend to come out in favor of hypnosis' reality by default.  Obviously, if you're a Cartesian and your proof of your own existence is "cogito ergo sum" then hypnosis proves not only its own reality by influencing your thoughts, but serves the handy philosophical purpose of proving my own existence to you as well since if I can trance you then I obviously must exist.  Likewise, to anyone who accords reality to subjective experiences as a matter of philosophy then hypnotic experiences are exactly as subjectively real as any other experiences and (given that they occur across a society) are also automatically considered socially real in the sense that other cultural phenomena like "Tuesday" or "Lunchtime" as well.  

The Root Cause of Disbelief:

I like to think that the blog post above pretty conclusively proves the existence of hypnosis as a method for one person to influence another person's thinking and behavior no matter what school of philosophy one belongs to; so if you're still skeptical of hypnosis after reading it and the links provided; it might be useful to ask yourself "why are you clinging to that belief?"

For many subjects the real issue underlying their skepticism is a desire to disbelieve because the existence of hypnosis is threatening to them in some way.  Either because it threatens their sense of personal autonomy by providing a mechanism by which they might be influenced beyond the effectiveness of ordinary conversation or advertising.  This is quite true of hypnosis, and is the root concern at the bottom of all debates about hypnotic ethics.  To these objectors I offer the comfort that hypnosis skills are typically taught along with safety protocols that embody these ethics; such that this concern can be properly re-framed as a perfectly rational desire to find a competent and ethical hypnotist who actually cares about your goals.

Some other subjects wind up unnecessarily skeptical of hypnosis generally because some certain application of hypnosis violates a core belief.  Typically the belief that no one gets to choose certain things like gender expression or sexual orientation.  To these objectors I respond that the evidence of my subjects having success with files like Shattered Heterosexuality and Masculine Conditioning speaks for itself.  These files reliably produce change in willing subjects, so clearly these things can be changed and your issue becomes whether or not you WANT to change in the way these files change people.  I get it that it can be comforting to believe that you were born this way when the majority of people who think you have a choice would like you to choose differently.  

Rest assured that the hypnosis community's commitment to the proposition that people can and should be allowed to change in whatever ways please them means that we are extremely unlikely to be the ones who would be forcing anyone into a choice they didn't want.  Hypnosis can't make a subject do anything they lack a subconscious desire to do; so if you lack truly lack the desire and willingness to change it can't affect you, and even if you DO have a desire to change you still have every right to non-consent to any particular method of change offered, including hypnosis.