Television alter brainwaves

[nys]

I know there was a long thread on this before. It was left unresolved though. This is what I gleaned from the thread.

Screen flicker causes switch to low alpha state. This is supposed to act as a hypnotic opener. The flicker is reduced with higher framerates hz. Flicker occurs in a CRT because the phosphor dims while waiting for the next pass of the electron gun. LCD screens don't have that flicker because the lighting is done at the pixel level by turning the grids' transistors on and off simultaneously. Videogames are another matter as the framerate of most games is 30 hz. A crt 60hz while a computer monitor is 30 to 80 khz Assuming LCD TV's are the same as monitor's and based on a few other post's, it sounds like LCD TV's are okay. I have read that the high frequency flicker of lcd's may be worse then the low frequency flicker of CRT's. I couldn't find much about LED TV. I'm not sure though. Increased resolution, brightness and colour is supposed to worsen flicker. LCD's have a higher resolution. Dim room lighting makes it worse.


Plasma Tv

Every single pixel in a plasma screen television is it's own little fluorescent light bulb. Each of those 'bulbs' flickers at around 120 Hz 100 Hz is well within the range which can be considered a "Strobe Light" capable of inducing a hypnotic Alpha state in the brain

Effects

There seems to be contrasting views on whether the brain effects are lasting. In 1969 Herbert Krugman found it took less than 1 minute of TV viewing to convert Beta waves into beta waves. When they returned the subject to reading a magazine the brains Alpha waves reverted back to Beta waves. This indicates not.

Calming oils such as lavender and rosemary produce more alpha and theta brain waves, indicative of relaxation and well-being.

Please offer your views and insight to any points I state.

Thanks

 

[nys]

Beyond hypnotic opener, what is so bad about alpha brainwaves? Beta brainwaves cause stress and alpha brainwaves help us to relax.

 

[Kaigen]

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[Sirius]

@nys

Well, alteration of brain waves by hazardous technology will definitely not help relax your body but rather help paralyse your body as well as your mind.

The same effect has been noticed in conjunction with EMF (here: RF pulsed).

There is an article you should read, mentioned here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=8776.0
And here is the web link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-control-by-cell

The first, led by Rodney Croft, of the Brain Science Institute, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, tested whether cell phone transmissions could alter a person's brainwaves. The researchers monitored the brainwaves of 120 healthy men and women while a Nokia 6110 cell phone—one of the most popular cell phones in the world—was strapped to their head. A computer controlled the phone's transmissions in a double-blind experimental design, which meant that neither the test subject nor researchers knew whether the cell phone was transmitting or idle while EEG data were collected. The data showed that when the cell phone was transmitting, the power of a characteristic brain-wave pattern called alpha waves in the person's brain was boosted significantly. The increased alpha wave activity was greatest in brain tissue directly beneath to the cell phone, strengthening the case that the phone was responsible for the observed effect.

Alpha Waves of Brain
Alpha waves fluctuate at a rate of eight to 12 cycles per second (Hertz). These brainwaves reflect a person's state of arousal and attention. Alpha waves are generally regarded as an indicator of reduced mental effort, "cortical idling" or mind wandering. But this conventional view is perhaps an oversimplification. Croft, for example, argues that the alpha wave is really regulating the shift of attention between external and internal inputs. Alpha waves increase in power when a person shifts his or her consciousness of the external world to internal thoughts; they also are the key brainwave signatures of sleep.

Also: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=18784.0

 

[Mrs. Peel]

@nys

Alpha Waves of Brain
Alpha waves fluctuate at a rate of eight to 12 cycles per second (Hertz). These brainwaves reflect a person's state of arousal and attention. Alpha waves are generally regarded as an indicator of reduced mental effort, "cortical idling" or mind wandering. But this conventional view is perhaps an oversimplification. Croft, for example, argues that the alpha wave is really regulating the shift of attention between external and internal inputs. Alpha waves increase in power when a person shifts his or her consciousness of the external world to internal thoughts; they also are the key brainwave signatures of sleep.

Also: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=18784.0

I can attest to the sleep part. I always wondered why when I'm watching a documentary on TV, I tend to fall asleep. I always thought it had something to do with the droning voice of the narrator, never thought of the flickering of the TV. We have a plasma.

 

[Sirius]

I've never watched plasma TV in my life as far as I can remember. Have you observed this effect with LCD or old TV sets, too? Or plasma only?

Here is another thread dealing with this subject I stumbled over: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,11755.120.html

 

[Bobo08]

There is also the fact that anything you watch can influence your unconscious in ways that you can't control. So even though you don't consciously agree with the message from the TV, for example, your unconscious is already shifted in that direction. And the worse thing is that you don't even know that it has been shifted, or can't do much about it.

So I guess the issue is not about which type of TV to watch, but whether to watch it at all.

 

[Mrs. Peel]

I've never watched plasma TV in my life as far as I can remember. Have you observed this effect with LCD or old TV sets, too? Or plasma only?

Actually, it used to happen when we had the old TV, which was one of those big, huge things that weighted a ton. Since I do also notice it most times I have to sit and listen to a (boring) speaker, like at work when we have all day seminars, I also tend to drift off, so I do think there is a narrator/droning voice aspect of it too.

 

[MikaelYosef]

There is also the fact that anything you watch can influence your unconscious in ways that you can't control.

I agree and would be more concerned with that aspect than the type of TV one is watching. Advertising and marketing agencies don't invest billions of dollars in research alone, to expect little in return. At best they might convince you to buy something you don't really want. At worst they can shape the minds of entire generations for any number of purposes.

 

[anart]

There is also the fact that anything you watch can influence your unconscious in ways that you can't control.

I agree and would be more concerned with that aspect than the type of TV one is watching. Advertising and marketing agencies don't invest billions of dollars in research alone, to expect little in return. At best they might convince you to buy something you don't really want. At worst they can shape the minds of entire generations for any number of purposes.

Speaking of marketing, I was at a gathering recently where a television was on in the room and noticed that in about 40% of the commercials that ran while I was there they used a telephone ring intermittently in the background audio. The effect of this, of course, is that you look up to see if it's your phone or the house phone or to find out what phone is ringing. In other words, it forces your attention to the screen. There is no real telephone ringing, but people are so conditioned to react to the ring of a phone that it's almost impossible to not look up to see what phone is ringing. It's insidious. The commercials that used this technique that evening were two truck commercials, a tech commercial and a few commercials for other television shows. It was completely Pavlovian - they use an abbreviated telephone ring, heads go up to the screen, people realize it's a commercial and then go back to conversation. Creepy.

 

[Buddy]

[quote author=nys]
Please offer your views and insight to any points I state.[/quote]

Unless I'm mistaken, the real concern central to these discussions seems to be about disassociation, because some kind of disassociated state seems to be necessary for hypnotic openers to be useful and hypnotism to even work. When I say disassociation, I mean mentally disconnected from your top and bottom. Top, being your overview of yourself in relation to where you are, what you're doing and why. Bottom, being how real your surrounding environment feels to your awareness at the moment.

I don't have an EEG machine to test anything with, but with me, the reality around me feels less real when the contents of my internal reality (mental world) feels more real due to most of my attention being focused internally at the time. I suspect this to be the danger state. Another possible danger is not considering mental hygiene to be important. IOW, (and this could just be me) one should be as responsible for identifying, or at least noticing, what goes in one's ears and other senses as he is for what goes into his mouth.

Regarding the mental, maybe a person can experiment by noticing when their attention crosses the boundary between 'inner' and 'outer' reality like that painting "La Condition humaine" by Magritte suggests. Reason is because I think 'both' realities won't feel equally real at the same time if there's anything not mapped appropriately or connected to context, OSIT.

Please feel free to ask if something I said doesn't make sense.

 

[SeekinTruth]

I also agree with Bobo08 that ALL TV is a mind control and behavior altering medium.

 

[liffy]

I made a little observation when I was at a guy I know remotely a few weeks ago. We were 5 people, sitting in the living room, and one of the people there, who certainly has certain psychopathic tendencies, insisted on keeping the TV on, so that he could play his MMA game (fighting, for those who don't know).

The rest of us didn't want to play so it was all him. What we noticed was that even though most of us couldn't care less about what was happening on the screen, it was as if it sucked in all attention anyway. When trying to keep up a discussion, one suddenly ended up simply looking at the screen, being unable to maintain a steady conversation.

What I noticed about my own reaction was that for short periods I didn't even have any conscious recollection of what was happening in the game. I just sat there, not thinking, not responding, not doing anything.

Kinda scary how easily one can be sucked in by a TV in the room, even if you're somewhat aware of what it does to you.

The lack of social intelligence of the guy who was playing the game is also rather scary, but that's another matter, and certainly not his only issues.

 

[Al Today]

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Unless I'm mistaken, the real concern central to these discussions seems to be about disassociation, because some kind of disassociated state seems to be necessary for hypnotic openers to be useful and hypnotism to even work. When I say disassociation, I mean mentally disconnected from your top and bottom. Top, being your overview of yourself in relation to where you are, what you're doing and why. Bottom, being how real your surrounding environment feels to your awareness at the moment.
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I agree with Buddy. For some reason most of us, if not all, enjoy to daydream, think wishfully. To the point where we escape and live a virtual life be it through books, role playing games, radio, television and/or movies. Methinks this may be an intentional diversion. Who's intentions? I am not sure. Could be the external forces or our DNA. One view I have is that we are supposed to live in the here and now. To be alert and aware of ourselves and environment. To be observant, think critically, always learning, and importantly, to be creative. This disassociation distracts us from personal growth, and the Universe that surrounds us. Perhaps even this disassociation keeps us unaware of surrounding danger.

Methods of diversion have increasingly become more sophisticated. Methinks that yes the mind, behavior, brain wave patterns can be altered though subliminal messages passed through this new age of communications. Be it verbal or visual. Perhaps the word "hypnotized" could be used? People can be "hypnotized" to the point where they can no longer "see" life as it truly is. Living in a virtual world of wishful thinking, perpetual dreaming, living in a false reality. Perhaps this is why we call ourselves "asleep".

If I were a conspiracy minded kind of guy, I might consider this all a plot to keeps us ignorant of this prison where we reside...
:P :P :P

edit? Spelling of course :)

 

[Mr Meowgi]

I will chime in on this one as well. It's not the type of TV. The programming in your regularly scheduled programming is the ticket as Anart stated above.
Commercials are horrible, from the Nazi type be afraid of your neighbors and use our service to see if they are suitable to the subtle use sex in another commercial i recently saw in which the way the girl was standing looked like a ladies privates. It repulses me thoroughly!