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What are Subliminals? Subliminals, in scientific terms are a very subtle stimulus to your sensory that you are not conscious with. There are several examples that show how subliminal messages are used to help people with their goals.

For example, there are subliminal tapes and subliminal cds. You might have seem those infomercials about audio tracks that you listen to with hidden messages in them, they are so hidden that you can’t notice it underneath the messages. They speed up the text so much that you can’t notice it under the music loops. These subliminal audio tracks claim to help people diet, stop smoking and other common “self help” problems.

The controversy is that they do not work. However, nothing is set and stoned, sometimes they do work, sometimes they don’t, it really depends on the user. First of all, in psychology, they state that if the user believes that the tapes will work, then he or she will fall into the role and it will help his/her goal more rather than one who resists and thinks the tapes/cds will not work. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the subliminal messages had anything to do with the progress at all.

Subliminal messages do however have an effect, or else… why would they be laws to ban them from TV commercials?