A company called "Eye Candy" has created a lollipop that can control your thoughts. The lollipops use something called "sensory substitution", which is science-talk for "mind control". They come in an assortment of flavors that are designed to induce certain physical and emotional reactions by making you hallucinate images that will trigger certain emotions. Here's the flavor list from their website:
RELAX. Tranquil fish swimming in your mind will help you to unwind.
SOCIALISE. The shooting stars will encourage sociability.
ASSERT. A big thumbs is guaranteed to reassure and motivate you.
MEDITATE. The the slowly shrinking circle helps you to meditate.
OVERCOME. Images of spiders will enable you to overcome your fears.
FOCUS. Direction giving arrows help to improve focus and attention.
This sounds a lot like taking acid except you don't have to listen to some kid bitch about how his dad "just doesn't get it man, spending all his time with his stupid investment banker friends. I'm his son man. I'm his f*&king son."
Here's what I don't get; how will I be less afraid when I'm hallucinating spiders crawling all over everything? How will I be able to focus better with phantom arrows pointing in random directions? The only time I ever hallucinated stars was when I was a kid and my brother knocked me out with a plastic lightsaber, and the stars did not inspire sociability, they inspired urine in my jean shorts. I see how this technology could be useful, though, in certain situations:
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