How do subliminal messages work...?
I know they are messages hidden in videos, pictures, movies, music, etc. And that they are suppose to make you do something or deliver ideas without even knowing or being aware of something happening. So how can you get that message without even realizing that you were exposed to it? Sorry if my question sounds confusing but i just wanna know how subliminal messages work, starting with explaining how videos that have a split second flash with text, how does that effect you?
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Subliminal messages are quick to the point that the conscious mind does not recognize them. They rarely last more than a second or two. Because of this, the conscious mind does not have enough time to figure them out. For example, if you are watching a television show which is trying to sell you oven mitts, a subliminal message might be a one second audio of "Buy oven mitts!" in the middle of someone's sentence on the show.
Their Effect on the Subconscious Mind
Because subliminal messages do not last for a long time, they are picked up by the subconscious mind instead of the conscious mind. Since the conscious mind is in control of short-term memory, the subconscious mind has more time to process all of the things the working memory picks up. Since working memory lasts less than a second for the most part, the subconscious mind has time to pick up the subliminal messages. Because of this, the working memory will pick up the signal and it will stick in your mind.
Subsequent Behavior
After your mind picks up a subliminal message, your subconscious mind will tell you to obey that message the next time you see something that relates to it. For this reason, following the example above, the next time you see oven mitts on sale, you will be intrigued to buy them. Even though your conscious mind does not understand why you are buying the oven mitts, you are still motivated to buy them because your subconscious mind is telling you to buy them.do so.
Unintentional Subliminal Messaging
Sometimes, people misconstrue messages in the media with their own conceptions within their settings. Consequently, this results in unintentional subliminal messaging. This is especially true of associations with products and objects to certain colors, music and figures. For instance, if you see a travel commercial for Alaska while you are listening to David Bowie on your iPod, the next time you travel to Alaska, your subconscious mind might get David Bowie stuck in your head. These associations vary from person to person and can result with the different associations for the same product and object. For example, if another person was listening to the Spice Girls while watching that same Alaska travel commercial, she might get the Spice Girls stuck in her head next time she travels to Alaska.
Other Examples of Subliminal Messages in Pop Culture
In 2000, George W. Bush ran a political advertisement in which the word "rats" showed up for less than a second to poke fun at how Al Gore wanted to let bureaucrats decide the prescription drug policies for America. The implication here was to have the viewers subconsciously link bureaucrats to rats. In 2007, an episode of "Iron Chef America" on the Food Network flashed a one-frame shot of the McDonald's logo with "I'm Lovin' It" at the bottom. While the Food Network simply decried it as a mistake, the frame was short enough to have the ability to subconsciously incline people to go to McDonald's.
When people talk about subliminal messages, what they're really talking about is something that you sense, meaning that it comes in contact with your brain, but the brain does not take it and make sense out of it. Essentially, it means sensation without perception. This happens because when you explore the world, you pay attention to what you pay attention to. And something that's taken in subliminally is something that you weren't paying attention to. The mystery is that somehow, these sensations, these messages in your brain that you haven't made sense out of, can influence your behaviour, your beliefs, and your ideas, without you even knowing about it. When videos, like advertisements, use subliminal messages, they do so by incorporating something in the video that will go to your brain, but not be perceived. Whatever type of message that they flash to you should be something that you associate good things with. The subliminal message gets paired with things in your memory that are related. So, when advertisers use sexual symbols and subliminal messages about sex in advertisements (as they have done with many alcohol products), subliminal messages work by sneaking in to your mind, and controlling things from there.
It only works if you have a certain personality type. Out of the three (a,b,c) I believe both a and c are venerable to subliminal messages. But it also depends on the method the person who is giving the messages is using.
The idea is that because our eyes are constantly moving and our brain is constantly processing things that a picture flashed for mere milliseconds will register, and be stored for a later event. Now it can't just happen once, this has to happen in conjunction with other images for a long period of time. Say for instance an anti-Semitic group wanted to brainwash people into thinking jews were bad. They would pic a negative image, probably destruction etc. and momentarily flash Jewish symbols in between these images. So now, when people go to access the first image in their brain, the destruction, their brain also accesses the Jewish images and thus it creates a false connection between Jews and destruction.
If we tell you, the message will not work on you anymore, and we just can't have that, no we can't.