Dr. Yoshimi Tokui's Guided Imagery Experience / Secret Mission // CONTROL
Channel: Nextgoer
Date: 2022-11-18

A strangely relaxing side mission featuring two sessions in a Sensory Deprivation Tank.
"Secret mission" because it's included in only one edition of the game, so many people never have a chance to see it.

From Dr. Darling's note:
"Maybe some of you have heard of a Dr. Yoshimi Tokui, the man behind the hugely popular guided imagery experience tapes. Apparently his tapes go beyond the normal meditative qualities of such things, but create genuine hallucinatory visions in some listeners, or so the reports say."

Dr. Tokui voiced by Hideo Kojima.
Location: Research Sector / Extrasensory Lab
Also called "Isolation".

Original in Japanese, with English translation and subtitles.
Transcript of the English subtitles:
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Welcome to my guided imagery experience.
Exercise one: "The Forest of Positive Interactions".
My name is Dr. Yoshimi Tokui.
Trust my words.
I'm here for you.
Close your eyes, open your mind, and find yourself on an empty beach.
The waves are rolling in and the seagulls are fighting over discarded bag of potato chips.
I believe they're jalapeno flavored.
I see something in the middle of the ocean.
They appear to be trees.
Perhaps they are ocean trees.
Or perhaps they are metaphors for how you push people away.
Let's find out together.
Just walk over the waves, friend.
The trees look lonely.
Why don't you talk to them?
You whisper to the trees.
You tell them that they deserve love, that everyone deserves love.
The trees agree.
They will now go on to form healthy, respectful relationships with other trees.
Or shrubs.
Whatever they prefer.
Now let's leave these trees to their love.
Voyeurism is impolite.
I sense a disturbance in our love-garden.
A menace.
Go, find it!
Do not let it darken our forest of emotions.
A forklift!
It does not like the tree's romance.
It is ruining our lovely beach with its hateful tires.
It ran over one of the gulls!
Such bloodshed!
Turn off the machine!
That gull had a family!
The potato chips were for his pregnant wife!
The forklift must be stopped!
You did it.
The murderous machine will kill no more.
The trees can love undisturbed.
Our beach is no place for forklifts, or lonely trees.
Your mind is a safe haven for love.
Doesn't that feel nice?
Aren't you feeling healthier?
Oh my, it seems we're all out of time.
Stay receptive, friend.
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Welcome to my guided imagery experience.
Exercise two: "Embracing the Erratic".
My name is Dr. Yoshimi Tokui.
Trust my words.
I'm here for you.
Now, close your eyes, open your mind, and find yourself on a deserted beach.
The waves are crashing against the rocks and the gulls are circling overhead, drawing ever closer.
Are you scared of birds?
If so, please try not to be.
Look, a vending machine.
You must be thirsty.
Let us go quench your thirst.
They have your favorite soda.
You know the one.
Press the button.
The machine has run off with your favorite soda!
Chase it!
Fight for it!
This is your favorite soda in the whole world.
The soda you'd kill a man for!
Hurry, run!
Soda!
The soda tumbles out!
Victory!
But wait, it's not the right kind!
I guess you'll have to try something new.
Go on.
You might like it.
How delicious.
This is your new favorite soda.
When you try new things, you sometimes discover the best of life has to offer.
That's a soda lesson for you.
Ah, another personal realization awaits.
Hurry over.
Run.
Exercise is good for you.
It's a dead person.
This would normally be quite an upsetting thing to find, yes?
Do not worry.
You are safe.
Why don't you try touching the dead person.
It could be interesting.
Oh merciful gods!
Dozens of more corpses appeared!
Where did they come from?
Oh, the stench!
The horror!
This beach will never be the same.
Why did you touch the dead person?
You made a grave mistake!
Fix your mistake by hiding it!
Bury these bodies!
Clean your mind of the rot!
That was scary, wasn't it?
And yet you learned another lesson.
You're scared of some things for a reason.
Listen to your instincts, accept that the world is random and cold.
Fear is useful.
Lots of good lessons today!
Some things are good, some are bad.
Don't you feel more prepared for the uncaring cruelty of life?
I know I do.
This concludes my guided imagery therapy.
You are now approved by Dr. Yoshimi Tokui to explore this rotating rock we call Earth.
Good luck, star wanderer.
Stay actualized.
And see you next time.
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0:00 The Forest of Positive Interactions
5:34 Embracing the Erratic: An audio journey