Brainshank:
Verb
A form of psychological abuse:
1) an attempt to destroy another's perception of reality or drive insane by manipulating small elements of their environment, and subsequently insisting that they are mistaken or misremembering when they point out these changes.
2) the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory, perception, and sanity. Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
A practical joke, prank
Manipulate, deceive, control
Verb
A form of psychological abuse:
1) an attempt to destroy another's perception of reality or drive insane by manipulating small elements of their environment, and subsequently insisting that they are mistaken or misremembering when they point out these changes.
2) the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory, perception, and sanity. Instances may range simply from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
A practical joke, prank
Manipulate, deceive, control
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Any intellectual/academic discussion meant more to show off the intelligence of the speaker than to prove a point or educate anyone listening.
Freudian literary criticism is pretty useless, to be honest; eventually they stop talking about literature entirely, in favor of pointless brainwanking.
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A: Have you by any chance read Erich von Daeniken’s ´Chariots of the Gods`, in which he claims the tomb of Mayan king Pakal actually depicts an astronaut in his spaceship?
B: Yeah, man. Daeniken clearly is the Charlie Sheen of brainwanking.
B: Yeah, man. Daeniken clearly is the Charlie Sheen of brainwanking.
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