Question?

[Number 4 Cool Dude]

Can you subconsciously demand that someone do something?

[Gealle]

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?

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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."

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

No.

[Rrrr]

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?

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[d_24]

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



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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.....

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[Tigger]

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

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[Haunted]

Lol you mean like "The Secret"?

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

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[Hennessy]

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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[the Empress]

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?

[LonelyPilgrim]

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

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[sat]

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?

[Gealle]

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?

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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."

[Nymphomanic]

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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[munchingfoo]

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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