Don't Let Your Corroded Mind Be Your Own Worst Enemy!!

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I would like to talk about our minds, this will be a scientific discussion and you will get a kick out of it. I guarantee you that by reading this post bellow you will learn something new, right now. I also guarantee you that this new information will help you with women. Hey, who knows, you might want to move this post into main Don Juan discussion and make it sticky, let's find out.

One rule though, I can not post pics in thread, but we will be dealing with your minds perception of images, so I will post a link, when you see a link, click it. It is imperative that you view images. In fact, for greater effect, images should be embedded in the post. Also, watch videos of all experiments, you will get a kick out of those!!


Who knows, you even might make a few connections and see the reasoning behind some of the game techniques.

Don't Let Your Corroded Mind Be Your Own Worst Enemy!!


I've already seen it have desired effects on some people.

We accept on a regular basis the premise that our minds are being screwed with. Advertisers, politicians, magicians; we accept that they know the tricks to pull the wool over our eyes. But as it turns out, the ways in which your head is being truly and royally messed with the most, are coming from inside.

Please be advised that your brain does not want you reading the following list, and may kill you to protect its secrets. These include...


Change Blindness

What is it?

It's your inability to notice changes that happen right in front of you, even if they're hugely obvious... as long as you don't see the actual change take place.

Um, What?

Consider Alfonso Ribeiro.

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Now, if suddenly that image of Carlton blinked and changed to a different image, you'd notice it. The change would draw your eye.
But if you got up and left your computer, then came back and found the image had changed, odds are you almost certainly would not notice, even if you were only gone for seconds. Science has proven it.

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In fact, if the entire text of this article--and the whole color and layout of this website--changed while you were gone, you probably wouldn't notice. We could switch it to a wallpaper of ****s. You might not believe it but, as you're about to see below, the experiments they've done on this get truly bizarre.

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A scientist named George McConkie started working on this in the 70s. He'd introduce changes in words and text right on the page that someone was reading. By tracking the movement of their eyes, he was able to change the text right in front of their damned faces without people noticing.

Why Does the Brain Lie About it?

Change blindness is usually related to something called inattention blindness.
If you tried to process everything in your visual spectrum you would go insane, so your mind picks and chooses what to focus on. If Carlton grows a mustache while your brain isn't paying attention, when you look back at Carlton, your brain tells you he's had the 'stache all along.

It's like your brain is sitting in class, staring out the window at a cloud that sort of looks like a boob. When you call on your brain it does the same thing you do when a teacher calls on you in those circumstances: Start bull****ting.
It doesn't really know what Carlton looked like a second ago, but it's not going to tell you that. Since it has no visual memory of the image, it just tells you it's always looked the same. Even when that's a lie.

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Where it Really Gets Weird...

What's truly amazing is just how often your brain isn't paying attention. Scientists decided to take the idea to a ridiculous extreme. They ran experiments where they'd have a guy manning the counter at an office serving students, while another guy was hidden below the counter. A student would walk up and request a form, and the guy would say sure and duck down behind the counter to get it.


But then second guy, the one who had been hiding, would pop up and say, "ah, here it is.
" This second guy would look completely different, and would be wearing completely different colored clothing, and most of the students would not freaking notice it was a different guy than the one they had been talking to five seconds ago.


Here is a video of such an experiment.
Far creepier is the bit magician Derren Brown does where he'll approach a stranger on the street, ask for directions, and in mid-sentence have somebody walk past carrying a large object. While the object is disrupting the view for half a second, he'll swap out another guy who looks and sounds nothing like him--and the stranger will carry on the conversation with the second man as if nothing had happened.


This is probably what made the producers of Bewitched think they could just switch out Darrins on us.

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Saccadic Masking

What is it?

It's the 40 or so minutes per day that you're effectively blind.

Um, What?

Quick, look at the wall to your left. When you flicked your eyes over there, for just a moment, you were blind. And you didn't even know it.

Why Does the Brain Lie About it?

Ever watch a movie that gave you motion sickness, due to the camera whipping around too fast? This is what has some people puking during movies that use the "shaky handheld camera" gimmick (see: Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project). Your brain doesn't like those rapid, blurry changes in vision.

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This is either Cloverfield or a picture of John Candy with a Motion Blur filter.

But eye movements are even faster than those shaky camcorders. Flick your eyes over to the wall again. Notice you didn't get that nauseating, blurred image of the room zooming past your eye? That's because of saccadic masking.

In order to bring you this completely awe-inspiring view of what we're guessing is your cubicle wall right now, your brain rapidly moves your eyes without asking, in the neighborhood of three to five times per second. That's in addition to the times you move your eyes consciously, to look at the clock or the wall just now.
To prevent your world from looking like the jerky Cloverfield camcorder all day, your brain shuts down your optic nerve while your eye is in motion.

Where it Really Gets Weird...

The spooky part is the way your brain prevents you from noticing the blackness that occurs several times a second, every moment you use your eyes. Estimates vary somewhat, but it's likely that you're spending somewhere around 40 minutes a day with your eyes wide open, and totally blind.

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Look at the wall one more time. If you make an effort, you can sometimes see a "flash" of darkness during a particularly long eye movement, one of those periods of blindness your brain insists isn't happening. But for the most part, your brain suppresses these flickers.

And here's where saccadic masking and change blindness team up to have rough sex with your mind.
Remember, the first scientist to experiment with change blindness was making changes to the page while people were looking directly at it.
He was able to do it by introducing the changes during saccadic movement. If a change occurs during that fraction of a second when the brain is dodging calls like the optic nerve was an ex-girlfriend, you tend not to notice it. Even when it happens right in front of your damned eyes.


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Proprioception

What is it?

It's your brain's map of your body, and it screws up on a regular basis.

Um, What?

Your sense of proprioception is your brain's ability to sense where your limbs are. Nothing strange about that, right? This is how you can put a sandwich in your mouth while your eyes are focused on the TV. Your brain knows where your hand is in relation to your face, thanks to proprioception.

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Why Does the Brain Lie About it?

It may not be lying necessarily, just easily confused. You know this if you've ever taken a field sobriety test.


Your proprioception is like your underwear: it's pretty much the first thing to disappear when you're any kind of ****ed up. Basically, the cops doing the roadside test are trying to see if your brain knows where your fingers are in relation to your nose.


Even though your brain carries around a detailed awareness of exactly where your body parts are at all times, when it's handed a contradictory stimulus, essentially it says, "Oh, well. Guess I've been wrong about the length of your nose all these years."

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It's either that or your brain is a sadistic son-of-a-***** that likes playing tricks on you.

Where it Really Gets Weird...

The best example we've found so far is "the Pinocchio illusion." Scientists have found they can have the subject touch the tip of their nose with their finger, and have their bicep or triceps electrically stimulated at the same time. Your brain "feels" your arm muscle extending, but also feels that you're maintaining contact with the tip of your nose, and leaps to the immediate, yet fully sober, conclusion that your nose has suddenly grown to be about three feet long.

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Incidentally, we know exactly which illusion you're about to try to induce, figuring all it'll take is a girl, a dark room and the right equipment. Don't do it. It will lead to eventual disappointment.



Cryptomnesia

What is it?

It's sometimes called subconscious plagiarism.
It's what happens when your brain rips off someone else's ideas and doesn't tell you, knowing nobody will believe you when you get caught later.

Um, What?

Among the many things your brain isn't good at is correctly remembering where your ideas come from.
Cryptomnesia happens when your brain finds a really good idea, but doesn't bother remembering that, oh, yeah, it's not yours.

Despite what has to be an enormous temptation for people to jump all over that **** and claim it for themselves, Carl Jung discovered it.

Although occurrences are pretty rare, there are still some famous cases: Nietzche accidentally didn't write quite a bit of Thus Spake Zarathustra, George Harrison was forced to shell out almost $600,000 over a song he "borrowed," and an early incident with cryptomnesia permanently ruined the celebrity-author career of Helen Keller, who wrote up a fairy tale that it turned out had been told to her years before--much to her surprise.

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Sad, because she never got to write Harry Potter and the Miracle Worker.

Why Does the Brain Lie About it?

Like so many of the other items on this list, explanations are pretty thin on the ground. Cryptomnesiologists seem to think that, for some reason, your brain retains enough memory of the event to recall the event, but not the origin of the event, leading to the mistaken impression that you're the originator.

You may be wondering at this point how we know cryptomnesia exists at all.
After all, how do we know those cases of "accidental" plagiarism weren't all intentional?

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The answer: we don't. If you haven't experienced it for yourself, you have no way of knowing it's not just a big fat scam. If you have experienced it, good luck trying to convince that first group.


Where it Really Gets Weird...

Studies show cryptomnesia is more likely to happen when the originating source is of the same sex. Scientists think this is because when the actual source is more similar to you, your brain is more likely to confuse you with the other person.
Yes, because the brain is actually a drooling idiot, next week some woman is going to write a book called Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and think it was her own idea.


Subconscious Behavior aka Best Guessin

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What is it?

It's precognition.

Um, What?

Okay, fine.
It's not exactly precognition.
But there is evidence that your brain makes predictions (oftentimes incredibly bad ones) about what's either happening or about to happen in the future.

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Once your brain has a good idea of what it thinks is about to go down, it acts on that prediction, and--here's the weird part--there's evidence that it acts before you've made a conscious choice to act, either by moving parts of your body, or just by ****ing with your perception.

Why Does the Brain Lie About it?

Because, otherwise, we'd be the clumsiest creatures on the planet. Our brains are lots of things, but they aren't necessarily that bright, and they particularly aren't good at coping with entirely unexpected situations. We deal with almost everything that happens to us by comparing ongoing events with past experiences, mostly in our subconscious. Our minds pay much more attention to comparisons with past experiences than they do with the events facing you at any given moment. It's why "practice makes perfect."

Where it's less useful is when your brain gets confused and starts ****ing with you, like in the starburst illusion.

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The starburst illusion takes advantage of the fact that your brain (and eyes) have LOTS of experience with converging horizon lines. When we "see" the background starburst pattern in real life, we're generally traveling towards the point of convergence. Your brain can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy, so it assumes you're traveling towards the center of the image, and adjusts your perception by enlarging and distorting the center, as though you were moving towards it.

So when we say "adjusts your perception," we mean "****ing lies to you. AGAIN."

Where it Really Gets Weird...

Scientists recently found out that if they hook your brain up to a scanner and then ask you to make a decision, a part of your brain lights up to take action several seconds before you consciously make the decision. So when you're working out in your head whether or not to go to work tomorrow, a part of your brain has already decided to call in sick, several seconds before the voice in your head arrives at that same conclusion.

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I'm calling the shots, here.

That's right: If somebody had electrodes hooked to your brain, they could tell you--with 100% accuracy--what decision you'll make a few seconds from now. Now think about what that means for free will, and prepare to have your mind blown.


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Brainwashing doesn't take any sci-fi gadgetry or Manchurian Candidate hypnotism bull****. There are all sorts of tried-and-true techniques that anyone can use to bypass the thinking part of your brain and flip a switch deep inside that says "OBEY.


Now I know what you're thinking.
"Sure, just make an ad with some big ol' titties on there! That'll convince people!"


While that's certainly true ...

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... they've got a whole arsenal of manipulation techniques that go way beyond even the most effective of titties. Techniques like ...


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DISCLAIMER: I chose political idiocy as an example, because ALL are familiar with them in the past 6 months. I could have also used other events as an example, such as commercials, but problem with commercials is that not all would have seen them. However, ALL know politics, one way or the other we come across it. Please let's not get side tracked on politics though, they are irrelevant, and I'm only going into this because I would like to give you guys good examples.

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Chanting Slogans

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Every cult leader, drill sergeant, self-help guru and politician knows that if you want to quiet all of those pesky doubting thoughts in a crowd, get them to chant a repetitive phrase or slogan.
Those are referred to as thought-stopping techniques, because for better or worse, they do exactly that.

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Sounds like:

"Say it with me now, folks!"

"FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!"

"One, two, three, four, I, Love, The Marine, Corps. One, two..."



Why It Works:


The "Analytical" part of your brain and the "Repetitive Task" part tend to operate in separate rooms. But you didn't need an expert to tell you that.
You know you can't solve a complex logic puzzle if I force you to scream the chorus to that Chumbawamba song over and over again while you're doing it. Try it.


Meditation works the same way, with chants or mantras meant to "calm the mind." Shutting down those nagging voices in the head is helpful for stressed-out individuals, but even more helpful to a guy who wants to shut down an audience full of nagging internal voices suggesting that what he's saying might be retarded.


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Recently Seen:


At the political conventions, notice how they trained the audiences to fill the gaps between applause lines with chants ("U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!") rather than, say, pensive silence to carefully consider what the speaker has just said.

Also, those of you who've worked at Wal-Mart are familiar with the "Wal-Mart Cheer" that begins every shift:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KA9LqsHSfY&feature=player_embedded

They used to sacrifice a goat at the end, but PETA put a stop to it.




Slipping Bull**** Into Your Subconscious

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The rise of the internet news portal has given birth to a whole new, sly technique of bull**** insertion. What They (and from here on, "They" with a capital T means anyone who draws a paycheck by manipulating your opinion) have figured out is that most of you don't read the stories, you just browse the headlines. And there's a way to exploit that, based on how the brain stores memories.


The Drudge Report lives off this. A single anonymous source will report to some news blog that, say, Senator Smith runs a secret gay bordello in New Orleans.
Drudge will run the headline:


NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT SMITH'S SECRET GAY BORDELLO

Or perhaps there'll just be a question mark on the end:

SMITH: SECRET GAY BORDELLO ASS MASTER?


It doesn't matter that the headline merely involves "questions" about the bordello.
The idea has been planted, and two months later when somebody mentions Senator Smith around the water cooler you'll say, "The gay bordello guy, right?"

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Sounds like:


"WHAT IS OBAMA'S CONNECTION TO LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS?"


"TOYOTA PRIUS - MORE WASTEFUL THAN A HUMMER?"


"OFFICIAL SAYS WTC COLLAPSE 'UNEXPLAINED'"


Why It Works:


They call it "Source Amnesia." For instance, you know what a wolverine is, but probably don't remember exactly how you learned that piece of information.
The brain has limited storage, so it stores just the important nugget (that a wolverine is a small, ferocious animal) but usually discards the trivial context, such as when and where you learned about it (the movie Red Dawn, probably).

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In the era of the web and information overload, that's a mechanism They can exploit very easily.
What They have found is that a piece of information--say, an ugly rumor about a politician--can be presented with all sorts of qualifiers (a question mark, attribution to a ****ty source, the word "unconfirmed") but often the brain will only remember the ugly rumor and completely forget the qualifier.


And get this: it happens even if the headline we read was specifically about the rumor being untrue.


You'll see this daily, in every election cycle. The entire point of putting a shaky rumor into the press is to force your opponent to deny it. Why? Because They know that the denial works just as well as the accusation. Thanks to Source Amnesia, for millions of people all three of these ...


SMITH DENIES GAY BORDELLO RUMORS


SMITH REFUSES COMMENT ON GAY BORDELLO RUMORS


SMITH ADMITS GAY **** BORDELLO


... register as the exact same headline.


Recently Seen:


During the presidential primaries, Drudge ran a huge photo of Barack Obama wearing a turban. Under it was an inflammatory headline about how disgusting it was that Clinton staffers were circulating such a picture.


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But a huge number of people who saw it only remembered the picture (months later, 13% of voters still thought he was a muslim). That's the idea.



Controlling What You Watch and Read

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Restriction of reading and/or viewing material is common to pretty much every cult Here on the internet, we've all heard horror stories about Scientology, which goes as far as filtering members' internet access.
Obviously the idea is to insulate the members from any opposing points of view, to keep them marching in line.

That technique works just as well outside of the cult world, but They have to be more subtle about it. It just takes a little poison in the well, that's all.


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Sounds like:

"Of course the public is misinformed! They're reading that trash in the liberal mainstream media!"

"Of course the public is misinformed! They're watching Faux News and the other trash in the corporate mainstream media!"



Why It Works:

Studies show the brain is wired to get a quick high from reading things that agree with our point of view. The same studies proved that, strangely, we also get a rush from intentionally dismissing information that disagrees, no matter how well supported it is. Yes, our brain rewards us for being closed-minded ****s.

So with a little prodding, the followers will happily close themselves in the same echo chamber of talk radio, blogs and cable news outlets that give them that little "They agree with ME!" high.

This wouldn't have been possible even 20 years ago. I grew up in the 80s, in a house with three TV stations.
Three.
We got one newspaper, the local one. You didn't get to pick from the conservative news or liberal news, back in my day you took what you got and you were thankful for what you had, dammit.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379


Today, I go through that many outlets a day just to get my freaking video game news.


And now, that explosion of the 24-hour cable news stations and, later, the web and blogosphere, has created these parallel universes of Right vs. Left media outlets, complete with their own publishing arms.


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And for each, their favorite topic of discussion is how corrupt and ridiculous the other side's media is.
They each even have "watchdog" groups that exist purely for the reason of hammering away at each other (the left has FAIR and MediaMatters, the right has the Media Research Center).


Recently Seen:


When an MSNBC interview with candidate John McCain got tense, he responded to the question by openly accusing the reporter of being an operative for the other side:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg6f8nsfzZI&feature=player_embedded


Just days later the campaign called The New York Times "a pro-Obama advocacy organization."


This technique is relatively new, but you'll see a lot more of it in future elections. The candidate will talk right past the reporter asking the questions and says to his supporters, "These guys work for the enemy, don't believe a word they say.
Their lies will only poison your mind.


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DISCLAIMER: I chose political idiocy as an example, because ALL are familiar with them in the past 6 months. I could have also used other events as an example, such as commercials, but problem with commercials is that not all would have seen them. However, ALL know politics, one way or the other we come across it. Please let's not get side tracked on politics though, they are irrelevant, and I'm only going into this because I would like to give you guys good examples.

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Keeping You In Line With Shame


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Moking


I won several formal debates in college using my patented technique of simply repeating my opponent's argument in a high-pitched, mocking tone while wiggling my fingers in the air. There really is no defense.


They call this the appeal to rididcule fallacy.
To which I would simply rebut, "Oooooh, appeal to ridicule fallacy! Well I've got a 'phallus' you can 'see' right here, college boy."


Professionals have more sophisticated methods, but it boils down to the same technique. "They" know that if they can paint an idea as ridiculous, the listener usually won't bother examining it any closer to find out if the ridicule is justified.


After all, why even consider something that's ridiculous? That's only something a ridiculous person would do! And you're not ridiculous ... are you?




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Ok, some of you might say finally!! You guys read it all.. Good job. Now you know something new. It would take you a Bachelors in Psych to know all this. I told it all to you in a few short posts. I hope you enjoyed reading it. And now I have a request. Go out there, out there or when you watch TV, remember what I talked about in this thread. Try to catch them red handed trying to use mind control over you. Get good at catching bull****.


Have a marvelous day guys, I hope you enjoyed this read.




P.S. This material is from my project on this subject matter. By no means it is complete, there is more, a lot MORE. One day when I have more time, I will share the rest with you. For now, enjoy the read. The picture thing is messed up totally, I know, I couldn't locate article on the web, I know I've seen it posted in a few places. .........and it looks like one of you located it for me, here it is if you wish to read this with embedded pictures, highly recommended for maximum absorption of this information, because that way you use your natural behavior while looking at things. http://www.cracked.com/article_17103_5-ways-your-brain-messing-with-your-head.html

 

[Alle_Gory]

You stole most of this from cracked.com.

Give credit where credit is due.

Cracked's article: http://www.cracked.com/article_17103_5-ways-your-brain-messing-with-your-head.html

edit: You stole the rest of it from cracked.com.

Cracked's second article: http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-on-you-right-now.html


You're definitely getting a rep point for this.

 

[James Dupri]

very interesting stuff...

 

[ThunderMaverick]

Xing, do you work for mad magazine or are you blatantly ripping this off their site?

Depending on how good your answer is, you might get a good rep... or a very bad rep with a "you're a piece of sh!t" comment attached to it.

Edit: What in the blue-f*ck is wrong with people that they just can't link to an article, admire the ideals and facts in it, and just SHARE it with other curious minds? What goes through a person's head when they copy and paste someone else's work and then drops a "it's my article and project" line on everyone?

You make me angry because you're a weak person, deceptively trying to get people to see you in a light of admiration. You wanted a shower of comments that read "great job bro! Woah! I didn't know that! Man, you're smart! Why didnt' I think of that!? You gotta big d!ck!"






You suck. -.-



Edit: I'm switching tabs between this post and the cracked post. I mean you didn't change ANYTHING. You just copied and pasted.

You motherf*cker.