littlecaltoy wrote:well, i get that subliminals may not be effective all the time.
I remember reading an article about a movie theater that experimented with subliminal adds for popcorn shown before the movie started and popcorn sales rose like 30%. I get that it's not 100%. I'm sure it depends on how well the person on the receiving end can hear, how suggestible they are and whether the suggestions are something they're interested in anyway.
I've had success with some, speeding them up so they sound like a squeak and dropping the volume so you can just barely hear them if you really, really pay attention. But that's just my guess.
I'll post if I find anything interesting. Please do the same, if you think of it.
--cal
The popcorn study is actually fake. The guy that did it is the guy that invented the concept of subliminal and he admitted publicly that he outright lied about the result. In reality there was no remarkable difference.
However, later studies showed that images conveying simple concepts do work to subliminally influence people. But only with simple messages. Flashing "PIZZA" or "PEPSI" can get people to crave eating or drinking, but not necessarily pizza and pepsi. Flashing "Go outside and play frisbee with your friends" won't do anything, "FRISBEE" might just make you want to go outside, but that's it.
So flashing "OBEY" and "SLEEP" probably have some minor effects, but only if the subject's eyes are open to see them.
As for audio subliminals, no scientific study has found that backmasking works. The subconscious mind is worse at deciphering complex messages than the conscious the mind. The reason we have a conscious mind is for tackling the difficult stuff that you need focus and logic to figure out. Riddles, moral dilemmas, the patterns of prey, the seasons certain berries grow in and which ones are poisonous and why, secret codes used by enemy tribes.
I think that if you're going to use subliminal tracks, you should instead consider using a quiet mantra for the background. Something that you can definitely hear consciously if you listen, easily, but that will be repetitive and will result in the conscious mind filing it in the back as background noise.
An example would be in Slutinmyhead's Cock Fixation file. There is a constant mantra in background of him saying things like "I love cock, I love to suck cock. Sucking cock is my favorite thing to do." and so on. At first you might listen to it and realize what he's saying, but then since he's repeating himself you stop paying attention to it.
But then it get's stuck in your head, like a catchy song. After listening to that file I've found myself filling times when I have nothing to think about with the exact words he used in the file. Just thinking "I love cock. Sucking cock is my favorite thing to do." for no reason. And it certainly has an effect on my thinking process because of it. It's not subliminal, but it does a better job at what people are aiming for when they insert subliminal messages.