Description: A look at subliminal messages - what they are - how they work
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What are subliminal messages? Subliminal messages are signals that are sent to the brain by registering in the unconscious mind. This can be visually, such as words, or images, flashed very quickly, so that the conscious mind doesn't notice them. Or, it can be through sound, words embedded, usually in a soundtrack, that are below the radar of our conscious hearing. (There are subliminal products out there today called silent subliminals --these would be an exception to the this rule.)
It was thought years ago that advertisers used subliminal messages in advertising. For instance, back in the days when movies typically had an intermission, (indoor, and drive-in), it was thought that during the ads for the snack bar, subliminal messages were flashed very quickly to encourage a food and drink purchase. It's also been suggested some department stores that experienced shoplifting played subliminal audio messages (embedded in their background music), along the lines of " I'm honest", and "I
If you consider that experts have said, regarding hypnosis, that a subject can usually not be hypnotized to do anything they wouldn't do anyway, it makes sense to think that subliminals would work this way too.