What TV does to your brain.

[scaramanga667]

Funky and simple litle clip that concisely sums up some general effects of watching too much TV.

Pass it round =]


Also worth a watch.

[hilly7]

Good video, especially the first one.

[Dunamis]

[h3rm35]

I'd like to see the citations regarding TV causing an easier transition into alpha brain-wave patterns - I'm sure it depends on the program/station being watched, but in my experience and as the studies on Sesame Street (which had been prompted AFAIK by other studies which then led those worrying about the effects on children,) TV causes an excess of beta wave activity. Beta is the more chaotic, multi-tasking wave pattern that causes an inn inability to concentrate over longer periods. anyone know more about either of these hypothesis?

[FastTadpole]

Related:

TV used as a Psycho-Social Control Weapon
http://concen.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=34541

Here's a brief overview of brainwaves.

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Quote:Brainwaves

There are four categories of these brainwaves, ranging from the most activity to the least activity.

   

When the brain is aroused and actively engaged in mental activities, it generates beta waves. These beta waves are of relatively low amplitude, and are the fastest of the four different brainwaves. The frequency of beta waves ranges from 15 to 40 cycles a second. Beta waves are characteristics of a strongly engaged mind. A person in active conversation would be in beta. A debater would be in high beta. A person making a speech, or a teacher, or a talk show host would all be in beta when they are engaged in their work.


The next brainwave category in order of frequency is alpha. Where beta represented arousal, alpha represents non-arousal. Alpha brainwaves are slower, and higher in amplitude. Their frequency ranges from 9 to 14 cycles per second. A person who has completed a task and sits down to rest is often in an alpha state. A person who takes time out to reflect or meditate is usually in an alpha state. A person who takes a break from a conference and walks in the garden is often in an alpha state.

The next state, theta brainwaves, are typically of even greater amplitude and slower frequency. This frequency range is normally between 5 and 8 cycles a second. A person who has taken time off from a task and begins to daydream is often in a theta brainwave state. A person who is driving on a freeway, and discovers that they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state--induced by the process of freeway driving. The repetitious nature of that form of driving compared to a country road would differentiate a theta state and a beta state in order to perform the driving task safely.

Individuals who do a lot of freeway driving often get good ideas during those periods when they are in theta. Individuals who run outdoors often are in the state of mental relaxation that is slower than alpha and when in theta, they are prone to a flow of ideas. This can also occur in the shower or tub or even while shaving or brushing your hair. It is a state where tasks become so automatic that you can mentally disengage from them. The ideation that can take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt. It is typically a very positive mental state.

The final brainwave state is delta. Here the brainwaves are of the greatest amplitude and slowest frequency. They typically center around a range of 1.5 to 4 cycles per second. They never go down to zero because that would mean that you were brain dead. But, deep dreamless sleep would take you down to the lowest frequency. Typically, 2 to 3 cycles a second.

When we go to bed and read for a few minutes before attempting sleep, we are likely to be in low beta. When we put the book down, turn off the lights and close our eyes, our brainwaves will descend from beta, to alpha, to theta and finally, when we fall asleep, to delta.

Full Article: http://web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

Engaging Video Games often put the player into the trance-like Theta state. The more you watch TV the quicker it is to slip into Alpha state.

Everything projected through the box or whatever medium seems to have an agenda or an echo of one (wittingly or unwittingly) except for those rare cases of pure expression.

I haven't found any studies that have been done with holographic and 3D Visuals in film and games. I think people are somehow shielded from NLP and hypnosis to a point in the Delta (sleep state) from what I have witnessed but you can perform actions in this state via MKULTRA / Project MONARCH type of programming akin to sleepwalking.

HYPNOSIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WILL POWER so I'm not entirely sure having your filters up really does anything to protect you or your children from being programmed by media, wireless, radio, audio, spectral or other deliberate or unintentional frequency manipulation. It's almost like need to navigate through our existence on this planet apart from our presumed logic, rationalization, our fed knowledge and our manipulated emotional response mechanisms. What does that leave us with?

Conceptualization? Reflection? Externalization? Internalization? Intuition? Deeper analysis can obscure and weaves confusion if it's based on peripheral. I find it best to cut to the core and working back, slicing it up, spreading it out, seeing the angles, zooming in and zooming out and never EVER thinking you "know" anything.

.. work (∞) in progress.

[mexika]

T.V masturbates your mind...

[bristopen]

@FastTadpole

What you've written here seems interesting. I've read about the trance-like state caused by watching TV in Mr Jacobson's book about mind control. He also talked about subliminal perception.
It would be nice If you a little reference work so that we can take a look.

[FastTadpole]

Quote:It’s Official: To Protect Baby’s Brain, Turn Off TV
By Brandon Keim Email Author
October 18, 2011
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Media, whether playing in the background or designed explicitly as an infant educational tool, “have potentially negative effects and no known positive effects for children younger than 2 years,” concluded the AAP’s report, released Oct. 18 at the Academy’s annual meeting in Boston and scheduled for November publication in the journal Pediatrics. “Although infant/toddler programming might be entertaining, it should not be marketed as or presumed by parents to be educational.”

Since the AAP made its original recommendations in 1999, passive entertainment screens — televisions, DVD players, computers streaming video — have become ubiquitous, and the average 12-month-old gets between one and two hours of screen time per day. (Interactive screens, such as iPads and other tablets, are considered in the new recommendations.) The 0- to 2-year age group has become a prime target for commercial educational programming, often used by parents convinced that it’s beneficial.

As screens proliferated, so did research. “There have been about 50 studies that have come out on media use by children in this age group between 1999 and now,” said Ari Brown, a pediatrician and member of the AAP committee that wrote the new report.

Those studies have found that children don’t really understand what’s happening on a screen until they’re about 2 years old. Once they do, media can be good for them, but until then television is essentially a mesmerizing, glowing box.

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At other times, media consumption comes with opportunity costs, foremost among them the silence of parents. “While television is on, there’s less talking, and talk time is very important in language development,” said Brown.

Three studies since 1999 have tracked educational television use and language development, and they found a link between increased TV time and developmental delays. Whether that’s a cause or effect — parents who leave kids in front of televisions might simply be poor teachers — isn’t clear, nor are the long-term effects, but the AAP called the findings “concerning.” In the same vein, there may also be a link to attention problems.

Even when media plays in the background, it distracts babies from play, an activity that is known to have deep developmental benefits. And for parents who use media to carve out a few precious, necessary free minutes in busy schedules, Brown recommended letting kids entertain themselves.

“We know you can’t spend 24 hours a day reading to your child and playing with them. That’s okay. What’s also okay is your child playing independently,” she said. “That’s valuable time. They’re problem-solving. They’re using their imagination, thinking creatively and entertaining themselves.”

As for iPads and other kid-friendly interactive computing devises, Brown said research has barely started, much less come to conclusions. But she counseled skepticism of promotional claims, which have been made with some of the same zeal as products of now-dubious standing, such as the controversial Baby Einstein videos.

“The way these kids’ programs came out was, ‘These are really educational! They’re going to help your kids learn!’ Well that’s great, but prove it. Show me the science,” Brown said. “I don’t have a problem with touch screens, and they’re not necessarily bad. But we need to understand how this affects kids.”

Citation: “Media Use by Children Younger Than 2 Years.” By the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media Executive Committee. Pediatrics, Vol 128 No. 5, November 2011.

Also from Wired:
* http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/0...ity-sleep/
* Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/1...uidelines/

@bristopen
What you see in the articles and linked articles is what I've got on it.. Educated, experienced, intuitive speculation. Feel free to expand on it.

[FastTadpole]

AJ highlights a bunch of commonly passed around subliminal spots.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhPIEbHjL0

I'll put aside that he's attempting to get you to join the "99%" by highlighting the Sharpie Commercial. I guess he's finally moved from "plug my movies and website" to "go out and protest stuff" as his solution message.

But I digress.

He shows an article onscreen in the video while talking about flicker rate, alpha waves and "Mind Fog" and that directly applies to this thread.

Quote:Your Brain Waves Change When You Watch TV -Low Alpha Waves Can Lead to "Mind Fog"
By Chris M. Carmichael
May 17, 2007

If you experience "mind fog" after watching television, you are not alone. Studies have shown that watching television induces low alpha waves in the human brain. Alpha waves are brainwaves between 8 to 12 HZ. and are commonly associated with relaxed meditative states as well as brain states associated with suggestibility.

While Alpha waves achieved through meditation are beneficial (they promote relaxation and insight), too much time spent in the low Alpha wave state caused by TV can cause unfocussed daydreaming and inability to concentrate. Researchers have said that watching television is similar to staring at a blank wall for several hours..

I enjoy watching television on occasion, and this article is not meant to suggest that people should never watch TV. However, it is only fair that people understand what happens to the brain each time it is exposed to television.

In an experiment in 1969, Herbert Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person's brainwaves switched from Beta waves-- brainwaves associated with active, logical thought-- to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.

One thing this indicates is that most parts of the brain, parts responsible for logical thought, tune out during television viewing. The impact of television viewing on one person's brain state is obviously not enough to conclude that the same consequences apply to everyone; however, research involving many others, completed in the years following Krugman's experiment, has repeatedly shown that watching television produces brainwaves in the low Alpha range.

Advertisers have known about this for a long time and they know how to take advantage of this passive, suggestible, brain state of the TV viewer. There is no need for an advertiser to use subliminal messages. The brain is already in a receptive state, ready to absorb suggestions, within just a few seconds of the television being turned on. All advertisers have to do is flash a brand across the screen, and then attempt to make the viewer associate the product with something positive.

Implications for those with ADD and ADHD:

Most people would benefit from cutting television time; in addition, research has shown that persons with ADD or ADHD tend to have too much Alpha, Theta, and Delta wave activity and, therefore, would benefit significantly from a reduction in TV. Television certainly contributes to a reduced ability to concentrate for anyone, but especially those who already have an overabundance of Alpha waves.

Better alternatives:

Reading (a book or magazine, for instance-- not televised text. It is the radiant light from a television set that is believed to induce the slower brainwaves ) and writing both require higher brain wave states. If you want to keep your brain focused and your attention strong, it is a good idea to cut your television time. Sitting quietly for a few minutes, painting, singing, reading, or going for a walk, are better for you in all ways.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...tml?cat=25

Pardon if that was simplistic but it was written for the Yahoo! News Crowd.

Back to Subliminals..

Subliminal Manipulation of Your Mind



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMs325J0zE

Taking this a bit further here's an aggregation of some other threads and here's some more from Adam.

Entire Propaganda, Parables, and Perception series and much more from Jonathan (I'm seeding atm) - :
https://isohunt.com/torrent_details/6490...ab=summary (mp3 audio)

Also on the tracker:

Jonathan aka Adampants - Compilation (video + audio)
http://concen.org/tracker/torrents-details.php?id=18498

"Reconnecting to Spirit" series by Jonathan (mp3 audio)
http://concen.org/tracker/torrents-details.php?id=18495