What are subliminals?
Do you really know? 
About this episode
What are subliminals? If you listen to some people out there, they’ll tell you you can improve your self-esteem, change your eye colour, or become a mermaid simply by viewing or listening to certain clips on Youtube. Sounds far-fetched right? Well, the idea is based on subliminal messaging, so let’s discuss how realistic it is. It’s important to distinguish between audio and visual subliminals. The former type often feature unintelligible jabbering, sometimes overshadowed by random ambient music. The extract you can hear in the background comes from a Mark Reynolds clip entitled “Make Him Unblock You On Social Media” What are the clips themselves actually like? But how can you expect to get physical changes from an audio or video clip? What does science have to say on the matter? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions ! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here : What is sadfishing? What is Jurassic Park? What are carbon bombs? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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