One day I was talking with friend of mine about subliminal transmission, how this can influence our consciousness. So I’ve decided to explore this btw interesting topic here.
Per encyclopedia: subliminal message is a signal or message designed to pass below (sub) the normal limits of perception. For example it might be inaudible to the conscious mind (but audible to the unconscious or deeper mind) or might be an image transmitted briefly and unperceived consciously and yet perceived unconsciously.
This definition assumes a division between conscious and unconscious which may be misleading; it may be better to say that the subliminal message (sound or image) is perceived by deeper parts of what is a single integrated mind.
Some of you have heard about Mr James Vicary and famous and fabricated study from 1957 (“Drink Coke”, “Eat Popcorn”) or about Mr Wilson Key and his unbelievable theories about commercials(see http://www.classroomtools.com/sublimad.htm).
Probably you have heard also about SM in music i.e. Judas Priest, Pearl Jam, Queen or Polish KAT were accused of smuggling subliminal message into their songs, playing this music backwards “it’s possible” listen those transmissions.
September 22, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Hello,
I have heard about it. I have heard about some experiments on students (movie with subliminal transmission) and it worked!!
It is scary; thank Good it is prohibited.
September 22, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Hello,
I have heard about it. I have heard about some experiments on students (movie with subliminal transmission) and it worked!!
It is scary; thank Good it is prohibited.
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September 23, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Yes it is, but isn’t prooven how big influence this kind of message has.
I will point out some examples of research:
1.New York psychologist Lloyd H. Silverman ran a series of tests throughout the 1960s on the effects of subliminal messages on people with depression. One test group looked at a photo while the phrase “Destroy Mother” was quickly and repetitively flashed on its surface. A second group was exposed to the same image, this time with the words “People Thinking.” Neither group consciously perceived either message.
Nonetheless, the effects of the subliminal messaging were seen later in the experiment, as the first group’s depression increased but the second group’s depression did not change.
It didn’t take long for advertising agencies to realize that the use of the “extra information” that Vicary and Silverman dabbled with was particularly applicable to their industry, and they were pleased to discover that the hidden message did not even have to relate directly to the product they were selling.
2. During World War II, tacticians found that pilots and gunners were unable to distinguish the silhouettes of planes seen at a distance. In some instances, pilots and gunners even shot down “friendly” planes. To solve this problem, Air Force psychologists developed the tachistoscope, which is simply a machine that flashes words, numbers or images for varying instants of time on a visible screen. By flashing fairly large pictures of friendly and enemy aircraft at slow speeds, while gradually increasing the exposure speed and decreasing the size of the aircraft image, pilots could be quickly trained to recognize even speck-like representations of different planes when flashed at only 1/100th of a second. In fact, U.S. Navy ship gunners were trained to identify more than 2,000 silhouettes at one sitting without a mistake.