Subliminal advertising really does work, claim scientists

Love that stuff. Its like the "wheres waldos Dck" of advertising! Jusy good commercial fun!

Remember back in the 80's and 90's when Disney got into trouble for putting a dildo on the cover of "Little Mermaid" and in "Aladdin" the cloud of smoke spelled out Sex and there was another sex suggestion in the "Lion King" that slips my mind at the moment. Google it and I'm sure you'll find it.

I remember a presentation in High School on this exact subject and how sex sells. They showed a liquor ad in a magazine where the ice cubes in the glass that the liquor was about to be poured over spelled out sex down the glass perfectly, just by the shape of the ice cubes. But you wouldn't even of noticed it if you didn't already know that it was there in the first place.

Now do you think all that is mere coincidence? Or put there on purpose to help bolster sales!

Subliminal? Come on. You really think that is happening?

Look around. On national TV "news" legally they are allowed to lie about what ever they want -over and over and over and over again until it become true in the minds of the people.

This happens all the time everyday in america.

Why would they go back to something like subliminal?

Look into the studies on the effects of continual lies and how the effect the american populace.

You may be in for a surprise.

My undergranduate degree study was in Psychology from the S.U. of New York. We learned back in the 1960s that it had already been researched & proven the unconscious mind can perceive 24 frames per second from a motion picturing camera, the human eye long before the 1st movie came out in June 1894.. The eye can see & the mind can remember even one frame out of 24 very easily. Why shouldn't it ? The primary purpose for having an unconscious mind is to act as a memory reservoir. The conscious mind perceives things in only the waking state,then shuttles those perceptions into the unconscious unless it focuses on them by noticing something. But the unconscious mind always perceives things, even when your sleeping or in a coma. When people are hypnotized to mind control them, it's simply a matter of relaxing their conscious mind to ease back and roll off their conscious mind so that their unconscious mind can rise to the surface. When you're fully awake you can use all your mental faculties,reason, etc. But when you're tired, or too relaxed, a single suggestion without competition is perceived as a command.The sedative/anesthetic/hypnotic class of substances such as Cannabis, alchohol etc.will have this effect on the psyche. Even driving on the Interstate for too long without stopping to rest, or watching TV/movies on end will prep the couch potatoes to be programmed for subliminal messaging in this presleep state of consciousness. In the late 1980s a John Carpenter movie "They Live" explored the metaphor of substituting E.T. aliens for Corporations marketing their products by subliminal messaging that was everwhere, though invisible. It was as if everyone was walking around in a common dream, ie sleepwalking but unaware that they were sleepwalking, because of the mass hypnosis. So if you were to wear special glasses (the invisibility metaphor part again) then you could see who was an alien, and who was human. Even Saturday Night Live spoofed it with their "fecal vision" glasses. You had to put them on to see that shit was everwhere. Ha ! Made you look. Back in the late 1950s, and early 1960s, Rod Serling produced an avant guard sci fi series called the Twilight Zone in black & white photography. I was a take off based on the earlier TV series One Step Beyond. In the Twilight Zone intro, in Rod Serling's voice, he narrated the following: "There is a middle ground between light and shadow, between form and substance. And it lies somewhere between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This middle ground is called Immagination.It is as as infinite as space, and as timeless as infinity.This is the dimension of Mind." The music theme playing in the background to complement the verbal narration was with bongo drums and electric guitar sounding pretty freaky. With the immages on the screen showing the sun setting, then the stars in space coming out, then the scene rapidly landed on earth to set the stage for the episode. They still air this series on the Sy Fy channel out of NYC. Yes, the CIA did research on sublimation for use in its Manchurian Candidate assasination program. They plucked that one right out of the history of Omar Kyam vs the hashishens(Persian name for assasins) because they abused hashish to mind control & train people to commit to
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I'll beleive it when I see it.

Yes, it is true that this type of experimenting has been going on for 50 years. In fact, the article even refers to the first famous subliminal experiment done by coca-cola in movie theaters in the 1950's in which flashing images and words of "popcorn" and "buy coca-cola" on the big screen actually produced results of higher sales of those items.

Of course, after these studies proved subliminal advertising to work it was soon banned for obvious reasons, taking away a persons free will would be reason enough to place a ban on all subliminal advertising. But that doesn't mean that corporations stopped experimenting with it and finding new ways to covertly put it into ads.

More than just corporations could find a use for subliminal messages. Think politics on the nightly news, promoting a particular political candidate, or even sports teams advertising. The uses are virtually limitless if perfected down to a science, and us the victims (consumers) would be none the wiser.
And I would bet my eye teeth that just because it was banned, did not mean that it wasn't still being studied and trying to find new ways to seamlessly fit it into our everyday lives without us even noticing it.

All of the advertising agencies are at a crossroads right now because the average citizen (consumer) has learned to ignore or tune out most ads. We are so used to being bombarded with ads that we are literally inundated and immune to most of the ads effects.
This is why product placement has become such a huge deal on our nightly shows. American Idol with their coca-cola glasses always sitting in front of the judges front and center, on display for all to see. And they're not the only show to embrace product placement. The next time you're watching your favorite show look for some of these product placements, some are cleverly done and some are blatantly obvious, but they are there nonetheless.

So the next time your favorite action hero jumps into a slick looking ride, see if they prominently show which car manufacturer it is, or when a character orders a drink by name and that beverage is displayed more than once throughout the show or even billboards in the background; Are all there for a reason, to get you thinking about a certain product without you even knowing that you're thinking about it.

Some might say that product placement is the evolution of subliminal advertising. But I have a hunch that ad agencies have far more reaching psychological tactics that we the public aren't even aware of yet, and that is the reason why they probably work!

And if you don't think that the CIA would also be interested in this technology, I have a bridge for sale as well. lol ;-)

I know subliminal advertising works as i was about to go out and purchase a female knee replacement after seeing boobs advertise this product,...and I am male....

This was news fifty years ago when they were doing it. well they may have never Quit though. so for all I know this maybe the reason I have fits of rage sometimes. I would love to find out that they made me the way I am. I just want to find a reason for my anger.

I find it interesting that only negative messages make it through, more than positive ones.

Think of today's politics and how this could be being used right now! You never know......