How many times have you had a song running through your head, and turn on the radio to find it playing?
More times than mere coincidence?
The subconscious brain can perceive and interpret more than we can imagine.
Brainwashing is easy for those that know how to deliver the message without the receivers knowledge. They outlawed subliminal messaging on the tube, but did they ever really stop it?
They outlawed subliminal messaging on the tube, but did they ever really stop it?
By the time people were really talking about subliminals (I'm thinking early 80s here), the marketing people and psychologists had moved on from the techniques they had been using. They just found better ways to shift minds without using the ultra-short visual insertions (which could be discovered by people slowing down film, etc) and the slightly sub-threshold audio stuff. They found more subtle and streamlined ways of hooking people.
(Wilson Bryan Key's books were my first real "rabbit hole" and I did a lot of reading on subliminals after I saw him interviewed on Tom Snyder's show.)
Back in college, a guy I know played a trick on his roommate. While his roommate was asleep, he took a microphone and plugged it into his stereo and sent his roommate a message from God. His roommate woke up convinced God had spoken to him, and needed some convincing that the message he got was from his roommate. It was really funny at the time.
I should add that his roommate was in a separate bedroom, with speakers setup in it, so in his sleepy state, there was no one in the room with him.
How many times have you had a song running through your head, and turn on the radio to find it playing?
More times than mere coincidence?
The subconscious brain can perceive and interpret more than we can imagine.
Brainwashing is easy for those that know how to deliver the message without the receivers knowledge. They outlawed subliminal messaging on the tube, but did they ever really stop it?
Excellent analogy.
By the time people were really talking about subliminals (I'm thinking early 80s here), the marketing people and psychologists had moved on from the techniques they had been using. They just found better ways to shift minds without using the ultra-short visual insertions (which could be discovered by people slowing down film, etc) and the slightly sub-threshold audio stuff. They found more subtle and streamlined ways of hooking people.
(Wilson Bryan Key's books were my first real "rabbit hole" and I did a lot of reading on subliminals after I saw him interviewed on Tom Snyder's show.)
Never actually.
Story time.
Back in college, a guy I know played a trick on his roommate. While his roommate was asleep, he took a microphone and plugged it into his stereo and sent his roommate a message from God. His roommate woke up convinced God had spoken to him, and needed some convincing that the message he got was from his roommate. It was really funny at the time.
I should add that his roommate was in a separate bedroom, with speakers setup in it, so in his sleepy state, there was no one in the room with him.
He couldn't figure out that the sound was coming from speakers? That's like farting in the sheets and thinking it was the boogyman.