The Personality Machine

Available soon in a near Swedish future.

Sometimes advice is a bit like someone with heart problems taking heart medication and suddenly thinking that everyone would feel amazing if they only took heart medication.
This was made for entertainment, so don't take it too seriously. It's not meant to suggest any real kind of psychology, or science, but using those things to talk about storytelling and the stories we tell ourselves.

Music:
T.Waraya - 誰もいない風景
鷹尾まさき(タカオマサキ) - 哀愁漂うホラー的なBGM_2
Yume Nikki Dream Diary - Corridor
Yume Nikki Dream Diary - Toilet

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#animation #animatedshortfilm

[MattiasPilhede]

Thank you everyone for 600k subscribers!
Every now and then I like to fantasize about promoting friends and lesser channels so I would like to take this as an opportunity to talk about my favorite youtube channels.

I have no interest in LEGO, so when I say I love this channel about reviewing lego sets, you should consider this a glowing, golden endorsement.
Lego reviews might sound like a too simple premise, but it has constant comedic twists and turns that would keep anyone interested.

My friend Adam made a retrospective of the entire Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and what sets this apart from every other video like this is that it's entirely through his lens of how he experienced the franchise. It makes it extremely unique and interesting as opposed to how everyone else would do it.

"Hi this is Andreas" talks a lot about topics I'm interested in, and has a similar sense of humor to me. If you like my channel you'll probably feel at home here.
His video on Dungeons & Dragons is a great introduction to roleplaying and his channel.

[chrystales]

I noticed that the procedure is expensive because it gives a sense of credibility. If it were cheap, then it wouldn't be as believable.

[plzletmebefrank]

This makes sense to me. I've known several recovering addicts and they always have a story, a moment, or a reason. When they realized how much they were hurting their kids, when they found out they were going to be a parent, when they hit rock bottom... They always had something to hold onto to justify and cement why they changed.
I haven't heard of any specific psychotherapies that involve this idea though. Seems like I would have.

[nikoforsyth]

I will tell others the story of how I stumbled across this video when they ask why I suddenly changed my personality.

[sensi_k]

This concept amazed me and terrified me at the same time. When Peter changed his whole personality and went home the first time - it was scary. Even I felt it. The thought that you're no longer yourself when you become more honest and build a calming thought pattern and simply change for the better... I haven't even realised that people's perception might be such a big component to why it's so hard to change, but it kinda makes sense. Thank you, Mattias

[Yue]

The writing is very charming. It ran on for 18 minutes, and I could still sit through the entire thing without getting bored

[halfenlightened]

This is genius, I love how ambiguous the fact that he was mistaken for someone else leaves the whole story too haha
I know this was a big project, but I hope it was very worth it for you too. Thanks Mattias

[HOTDOGDAY]

Now this is what a proper science fiction story looks like.

[SIK_Mephisto]

Dissociative Identity Disorder is the fragmentation of ones sense of self into distinct personalities as a result of traumatic developmental events. Describing a personality as a "defense mechanism" feels very real in this context, and is a great way to explain it.

All parts are still you, but woven into deep wells of uniqueness that don't mesh with the others. Things can be both true and not true for you. You can both like and utterly despise something. The personalities are both a defense from the external and internal, as a way to navigate 2 very complex and abrasive worlds that one distinct fragment alone isn't made to deal with. All we are is a mind fundamentally. It's how we've figured out to duck and weave to our own unique crucibles that make us stand out.

[tegxi]

I'm amazed every time how you create stories so startlingly unique and meaningful

[LamboShep]

Great video!

I found the part about personality being a self-defense mechanism to be really thought-provoking, and it got me thinking that traits that are considered to be good to have (calmness, honesty, etc.) are so hard to get because it requires you to dismantle the fortress that you have built up around yourself and really rethink the fundamentals of who you really are. And even though changing yourself would be for the better, you have been the same way for so long that getting rid of your traits feels like you are getting rid of yourself.

(i commented this before but then i deleted it on accident)

[Meyer_]

I have realized that this video itself is the personality machine. Because now on if I make crazy changes suddenly, I can just show people this video and say it inspired me

[ocelot]

This reminds me of something a psychology lecturer impressed upon me during a lecture about risk factors for mental illnesses, criminal behaviour, etc. I found it immensely comforting: "Anybody can have a turning point."

[MysticGohanVegeta]

This video is activating calming thought patterns in me

[petern]

Well that was a loop, my name is Peter

[saltysam_]

ohh thats awesome.. the fear of being perceived by other’s when you change, so you create a story that makes your change not reflect badly on you! LOVE IT!!

[whitegemgames]

I think I needed to see this. There have been many times where I had the irrational fear of doing something because it would be “out of character” for me. I know it’s dumb but there’s something comforting about seemingly knowing who you are I guess and deviating too much can be scary, especially the idea of someone calling it out the change even if not intended negatively.

[GabrielBorica]

"the overcaring, putting others before themselves afraid that no one else might do the same for them."

It hit me so deep i had to pause the video and take a few breaths omg

[solalabell]

In the wizard of oz the scarecrow wants a brain, the tin man wants a heart, and the lion wants courage. Each are given trinkets like a liquid to drink or pins in the scarecrow’s head that give them what they want. When they meet with the wizard later he reveals they were lied, but lies which removed the defense mechanisms holding each back.

[educated_guesst]

To be "unapologetically yourself" gets a whole other meaning in this video