![]() ![]() The undoubted powers of visual, olfactory, and auditory subconscious influence are huge and words and other sounds can certainly (sometimes especially) influence when we're not paying conscious attention. ![]() Well, the whiff of cleaning agents barely registered consciously, if at all, may present the pattern to your mind of cleanliness as a general trait and influence you by getting you to 'spontaneously' be tidier or cleaner in your behaviour. When we respond to an environmental trigger without having consciously registered that trigger, it will be because that trigger - whether it's the faint smell of cleaning fluid or particular types of words presented to you in a 'hidden pattern' - will affect you through a kind of 'metaphorical influence' so that your mind concludes a pattern from this trigger. If your eyes or nose don't detect it, then it will not influence you other than through the placebo response. But their eyes and noses in both cases would have had to have detected either the briefcase or the cleaning fluid smell. Subliminal influence is correlated to what we don't notice consciously, but our senses still pick up.įor example, people are affected by the presence of a briefcase in a room to behave more competitively or by the faint smell of cleaning fluid to behave more hygienically, even without consciously noticing these environmental 'suggestions' (2). So how do real subliminal messages work? How suggestion works subliminally Of course, there might be a placebo benefit to believing you are benefitting from 'suggestions you can't hear', but that's another story. How many people have been sold the idea that some subliminal sound they cannot hear is having some kind of effect on them? If someone tells you that suggestions 'below the level of conscious hearing' are working 'subliminally', remember how the adults over 25 years old in Swindon didn't respond to what they couldn't consciously hear and were able to attend the theatre. The adults who could not hear the sound were not affected by it, simple. But if you don't pick it up through your senses, it will not affect you. If we are affected by it but we weren't conscious of having processed the information, then it has worked on us subliminally. I mention this here to illustrate the point that to be affected by something, we need to actually pick it up with our senses. The Mosquito isn't subliminal, because those affected by it (young people under 25) consciously recognize the sound and know just what is annoying them so. The point here is that in order to be affected by this noise, you had to be able to actually hear it. So how do I connect this interesting snippet to subliminal messages and hypnosis? For a suggestion to work, your senses need to register it Although, I guess not great if you're a law-abiding young person! Wow!Ĭheri Wright, an 'anti-social behaviour co-ordinator' (put that on your CV!), reported that after three weeks of use, criminal damage and problems caused to shop owners had reduced dramatically. The longer someone of that age is exposed to the sound, the more annoying it becomes. How did this magic work? It seems that The Mosquito (so named because its sound resembles the buzzing of the fiendish insect) emits a harmless ultrasonic tone that can only be heard by people under the age of 25. And.it cleared the troublesome teenagers quicker than water off the back of a supersonic duck travelling through a heated wind tunnel. In 2006, a sonic device known as 'The Mosquito' was installed by The Wyvern Theatre in Swindon in the UK (1). What would you do? You've tried asking them politely to move on, but this has had all the effect of a paper windshield in a hurricane. Now imagine the square in front of your theatre is besieged by threatening and loutish young folk. ![]() Now just imagine you're, say, a theatre manager, having to make your expensive rent pay for itself and make you a profit. But some teenagers, some of the time, can be annoying. Okay, for the sake of balance, some teenagers can also be wonderfully creative, energetic, funny, clever, and kind too, of course. What do we mean by subliminal messages? Here's a true story: Fortunately, stereotypes about the 'powers' of subliminals simply aren't true ![]()
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