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I'm not sure if you did it on purpose, but when I read:

> To confirm, think of a polka-dotted elephant.

I immediately though: How does a polka-dotted elephant look like???

I guess my bank account is blank now :( .

This would pose a different kind of problem for people with aphantasia.

"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us: Mr. Stay-Puft."

You would want to offer a specific something else for the user's executive function to latch onto immediately, even if you continue to interpret anything other than the narrow confirmation pattern as "cancel", just so there isn't only one immediate, recent attractor for "think of something".

thatwasthejoke

To confirm, think of a $thing continuously for 10 seconds

> To confirm, think of a polka-dotted elephant.

You monster! :D