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  Posted by Unregistered User Number 4 Cool Dude at 20:01, 26th Mar



Question?

Can you subconsciously demand that someone do something?

  Posted by Gealle at 20:40, 26th Mar





In theory, if you could hypnotise someone with enough force that they would go against their root instincts... Yes.

Quoting Number 4 Cool Dude from 20:01, 26th Mar 2008
Can you subconsciously demand that someone do something?


So someone asked me "What is it you do?". I thought about it for a minute. Then I thought about it a little more. All the while I probably looked like I was staring in to space, struggling for an answer. And I was. There was only one response I could really give.

"I make sure the shit stays off the fan."

  Posted by rob 'f*ck off' wine boy at 20:50, 26th Mar





Answer!

No.
  Posted by Rrrr at 20:52, 26th Mar





you mean like say something in such a way that that suggests your subconscious wants them to do it, or in such a way as their subconscious thinks you want them to do it?


Splat!

  Posted by d_24 at 21:00, 26th Mar





Like willing someone to do something. Using the power of your brainz?


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  Posted by ribs at 22:22, 26th Mar






Quoting Number 4 Cool Dude from 20:01, 26th Mar 2008
Can you subconsciously demand that someone do something?

Demand? Perhaps no. But we are continually sending subconscious signals which do effect how other people act.....


Summer is a state of mind.

  Posted by Tigger at 22:29, 26th Mar





Yes

I subconsciously asked someone to ask this question, and it worked.


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(Claire Raynor)

  Posted by Haunted at 22:33, 26th Mar





Lol you mean like "The Secret"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo


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  Posted by Hennessy at 23:29, 26th Mar





I think it works. Honestly sometimes I have wished while in conversation and pretending to listen that the person would fuck off back to a Richard Curtis movie, where they probably belonged. And lo and behold sometimes it happens.

That may be because I tend to think aloud however...


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  Posted by the Empress at 14:51, 27th Mar





I guess you could . . . isn't that why children often mess up studies, because they want to please you (heh or not) so will try and give the answers they think you want. There's a name for it when interviewing too, when if the respondent likes you, they will respond to your (unconcious, I guess) cues, and give the answers you want. Sorry for the lack of techno speak. I doubt you can subconciously 'demand' so much as 'suggest' - isn't a demand a concious action?

Edited: 2008-03-27 15:12:09 by User

  Posted by LonelyPilgrim at 05:01, 28th Mar





Sure you can. Real passive-aggressiveness is precisely that, no?


Self-control is the chief element of self-respect; self-respect is the chief element of courage. - Thucydides

  Posted by sat at 08:23, 28th Mar






Quoting Gealle from 20:40, 26th Mar 2008
... if you could hypnotise someone with enough force that they would go against their root instincts...

Isn't it believed that the subject of hypnosis essentially goes along with everything voluntarily and if they were asked to do something they didn't want to then they would refuse or return to full consciousness?

  Posted by Gealle at 22:17, 28th Mar





Yes - in theory - which is why I said "force". It's not the perfect word to describe what you would have to do... Long term mental manipulation is more the thing I'm looking for.

Quoting sat from 08:23, 28th Mar 2008
Quoting Gealle from 20:40, 26th Mar 2008
... if you could hypnotise someone with enough force that they would go against their root instincts...

Isn't it believed that the subject of hypnosis essentially goes along with everything voluntarily and if they were asked to do something they didn't want to then they would refuse or return to full consciousness?


So someone asked me "What is it you do?". I thought about it for a minute. Then I thought about it a little more. All the while I probably looked like I was staring in to space, struggling for an answer. And I was. There was only one response I could really give.

"I make sure the shit stays off the fan."

  Posted by nymphomanic at 23:00, 28th Mar






Quoting Number 4 Cool Dude from 20:01, 26th Mar 2008
Can you subconsciously demand that someone do something?

If you could then that would be somewhat disturbing because it would imply that the same could be done to you.


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  Posted by munchingfoo at 00:28, 29th Mar





Why would that be disturbing? Just because someone demands you do something doesn't mean that you have to do it.



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