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Subconscious absorption of books

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Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. I see this as sort of psychologically health related.

I am hoping to get an answer to something I have been looking at for some time.

Can someone who is familiar with research on subliminal messages tell me how reading a book plays into this. If I am reading a book is the rest of the page and the next page going to effect me in any way? And if so, how?

Thank You so Much :)
 
hahaha

interesting, personally i believe that pretty much everything we see we remember, but our many "quirks" refuse the ability to access that information, for many reasons such as where the information was stored. anything can be forgotten and blatantly denied too, and with the proper trigger presented anything can be recalled.

coupled with my beliefs in spirituality, i will take it even further and say that you can remember things you thought you forgot in a past-life.

;)
 
thisusername said:
If I am reading a book is the rest of the page and the next page going to effect me in any way? And if so, how?
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Well, it depends. Do you hold a deterministic world view? If so then yes! Cause and Effect is central to any determinist perspective. If the universe is just a serious of events and their subsequent events, then yes the book pages will effect you. Causality is central to any belief in kharma so if you believe in kharma, then yes the book pages will effect you. The likely effect is that you'll keep turning the pages until you run out of pages.

If the book will have any affect on you, I'm not sure. That depends on how good of a critical thinker you are.
 
By the very definition of your terms it seems as if it is highly unlikely this can occur. "Subliminal" implies whatever will effect you will not be recognized, or you being able to dwell of the theme of what is being subverted. The act of reading takes upon instruction that have nothing to do with subliminal messages. The first step is the visual cortex, and the most intense part of the brain involve din reading in Broca's area, a set of cells within the temporal lobe. The meaning of the sounds you are reading, and "hear" in your head combine to form an understanding from the angular gyrus.


In no part of any reading can something be implanted in you without knowing it other than your own imagination and tangents of consciousness occur of association. In no part of reading can things "Slip through", however, your creativity can combine ideas, of course.


My response does not include, however, the hypnagogic state in which alpha waves are predominate and a person is much more liable to believe things that are utter nonsense. Many people, even while driving or partaking in highly repetitive tasks such as knittiing fall into an alpha stage consciousness relaxed and smoothed over by the tides of the present. It is incredibly enjoyable, and hypnotists use this to make suggestions to a subject.

If you are in that state, you are simply more likely to believe those things are true. The definition of "Subliminal", however, is false.
 
^it's not clairvoyance, at least for the "rest of the page" part (visual sense).
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i think that the style of language a person uses can greatly effect his life. the kinds of material he reads can greatly effect the style of language he thinks in, and the platter of words he has at his disposal at any given time. in this way, we are effected by books subconsciously.
 
This might be interesting to you,
ironically, it is a book!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing:_The_Science_of_Thought_Control

Also,
qwe said:
^it's not clairvoyance, at least for the "rest of the page" part (visual sense).
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i think that the style of language a person uses can greatly effect his life. the kinds of material he reads can greatly effect the style of language he thinks in, and the platter of words he has at his disposal at any given time. in this way, we are effected by books subconsciously.
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I'm going to sound pedantic, but it's just one of those things I see all the time and I CAN'T NOT...
Can greatly affect.
We are affected by books.
Books have an effect, we are affected.
We are not effected.
/anal
 
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effect is the noun, got it. some things just stick in your mind, some things just never stick :/

you weren't too pedantic, since i was talking about how the language we think in is important.
 
Effect is the noun and affect is the verb the majority of the time.

Effect generally means 'result'
Affect generally means 'influence'

It can depends on context. There are a few people using them incorrectly in this thread btw, I just corrected you because you were last to post. I don't know why it bugs me so.
 
qwe said:
^it's not clairvoyance, at least for the "rest of the page" part (visual sense).
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i think that the style of language a person uses can greatly effect his life. the kinds of material he reads can greatly effect the style of language he thinks in, and the platter of words he has at his disposal at any given time. in this way, we are effected by books subconsciously.
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Hmmmm, in that sense it does make more sense. Certainly I have experienced this myself and have taken tone to the literature I've been absorbed in. It's also particularly interesting that "tone" and "expression" are not the words and rationale itself, but rather takes upon a property of mood or fluency in melding ideas and to match an attitude towards the topic that the reader may adopt.


Subconsciousness is a strong word, and I'm not entirely sure that the OP had what you were thinking in mind. The OP seemed to be very clear.
 
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