Collapsing Anchors A very common technique for quitting smoking is a technique using anchors. Over several different sessions with a hypnotist, the hypnotist will connect positive anchors to non smoking behavior, and negative anchors to smoking behavior. So when the client sees positive things on a daily basis, those good feelings will be […]
Highway Hypnosis Origins
How’d I Get Here? The most common form of hypnosis is highway hypnosis. You get in your car, intending to drive to your destination, and next thing you know you’re already there. You forgot everything that happened on the way. Classic Recipe https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr02Loop.mp4 One of the criteria of a good movie is […]
Food Hypnosis
Street Preacher I was out wandering around the other day and I saw a street preacher off in the distance. I could hear the sound of his voice, but I couldn’t make out the words he was saying. But the crowd was huge, and even from a distance I could taste the charisma […]
Ukulele Preacher
Beach Magic I went down to the beach a couple weeks ago. There was a guy sitting there, staring out at the ocean, playing a Ukulele. He stopped right when I looked at him, and told me he could control people’s behaviors with his music. Music Teacher https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31Loop.mp4 There was a music […]
Laundry Girl
Nice Tattoo
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Structural Permutations
Pasta Machine I have a friend that just bought a pretty cool pasta machine. It comes without about 50 different attachments, so all you need to do is put dough in, and whatever pasta you want will come out the front. She said it’s cool to use, but really difficult to clean. […]
Sliding Into Amnesia
Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
Collective Energy Use
Drafting Birds If you ever see a flock of birds flying, they’ll tend to draft off one another. This is an instinctive way to move much more efficiently as a group. It’s a technique that cyclists and truck drivers do. Predators and Parasites https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10Loop.mp4 One way to think of a predator is […]
Imaginary Paradoxes
Gabriel’s Horn There is a paradox in calculus called the Horn of Gabriel. It’s a mathematical function, a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional equation y=1/x, but rotated around the x axis. The reason it is considered a paradox is this is a three dimensional shape with infinite surface area but finite […]
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