I can stop thinking of you

The alien has been submerged in blue paint, wiped from the building and freed from thinking about you. If I smother myself in paint, will I gain the same state of mind, a fume-filled blankness that no longer lets undesired thoughts of people (and thoughts of inappropriate displays of emotion) intrude? Possibly not, but I have coloured in one of my knuckles with biro, just in case.