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[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Mind Screw her]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle rrrrrrr๐“ฃ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐“ธ๐“ป๐“ช๐“ท๐“ฐ๐“ฎ ๐“ฏ๐“ป๐“พ๐“ฒ๐“ฝ ๐“ฒ๐“ผ ๐“ธ๐“ป๐“ช๐“ท๐“ฐ๐“ฎ-๐“ฌ๐“ธ๐“ต๐“ธ๐“ป๐“ฎ๐“ญ.]]

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The Mind Screw is something that relies so heavily on [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolism]] or [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs surrealism/absurdism]], or failed so extremely in an attempt at regular old coherency, that the immediate response afterwards is "What the heck was ''that''?!?!"

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The Mind Screw is something that relies so heavily on [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolism]] or [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[QuirkyWork surrealism/absurdism]], or failed so extremely in an attempt at regular old coherency, that the immediate response afterwards is "What the heck was ''that''?!?!"



Compare with TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, DerangedAnimation and WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs.

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* MindScrew/RealLife
** MindScrew/MathAndScience
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While some fans can make arguments over what the symbolism means, and what everything represents, many mind screws will pad themselves with [[TheWalrusWasPaul meaningless sequences]] to make the audience work even harder. Arguments over which sequences are significant are common. [[TrollingCreator Don't expect the writer to be very helpful.]] And if the show has [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]], don't expect them to be much help either. (If, by some miracle, they ''are'' helpful, you've got yourself a MindScrewdriver.) The more decipherable symbolism tends to focus on the perceptions people have of one another and [[ComingOfAge puberty]] and sex. Japanese and South Korean often produce this sort of thing and particularly in the horror and psychological drama genres because Asian audiences thrive on this type of oblique, enigmatic ambiguity. Creator/DavidLynch [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is hugely popular in Japan for this reason]].

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While some fans can make arguments over what the symbolism means, and what everything represents, many mind screws will pad themselves with [[TheWalrusWasPaul meaningless sequences]] to make the audience work even harder. Arguments over which sequences are significant are common. [[TrollingCreator Don't expect the writer to be very helpful.]] And if the show has [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]], don't expect them to be much help either. (If, by some miracle, they ''are'' helpful, you've got yourself a MindScrewdriver.) The more decipherable symbolism tends to focus on the perceptions people have of one another and [[ComingOfAge puberty]] and sex. Japanese and South Korean media often produce this sort of thing and mind screws, particularly in the horror and psychological drama genres genres, because Asian audiences thrive on this type of oblique, enigmatic ambiguity. Creator/DavidLynch [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is hugely popular in Japan for this reason]].
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* In ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'', Flint has a tough time wrapping his head around enchanting a dragon skull to make a helmet.
-->'''Flint:''' So you're gonna take the thing that's resistant to magic...and use magic on it...to raise its resistance to magic?
* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': The series has its moments of mind screwing scattered about here and there, but its crowning achievement of Mind Screw is episode 67 "[Best Of?]". The episode is framed as a substitute host doing a Clip Show of regular host Cecil's past highlights while Cecil himself is on vacation. To start with, ''every clip'' takes place on or near Lee Marvin's 30th birthday regardless of the actual year, some of Cecil's broadcasts predate ''[[spoiler:radio itself]]'', a CosmicRetcon occurs mid-clip, the final clip is Cecil describing the death of [[spoiler:his predecessor Leonard Burton]], which is followed by the substitute host, [[spoiler:Cecil's predecessor Leonard Burton]], signing off. Finally, after the episode has finished and the credits and proverb have run their course, there's a lingering silence followed by the sound of a tape deck being opened. A sound that has wrapped up every previous clip up to that point.
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** MindScrew/MathAndPhysics

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Black is white, up is down and short is long\\

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* MindScrew/{{Other}}

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-->-- "Everything You Know Is Wrong", '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''

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-->-- "Everything '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "[[Music/BadHairDay Everything You Know Is Wrong", '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''
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->"''Everything you know is wrong. Black is white, up is down and short is long.''"
->"''And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter.''"

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->"''Everything ->''Everything you know is wrong. wrong\\
Black is white, up is down and short is long.''"
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everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter.''"matter''
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Normality}}''. ''The Entire Thing''.
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