I don’t know what you mean about subliminal messages. I made a song Once, where the beginning of it is just me saying something backwards that’s actually a conspiracy theory, that’s disproven and I did it as a joke. Do you mean like that kind of subliminal? I’m confused.
I don’t know. You have to remember, that there was a time of moral Panic, that when someone said subliminal messages, it was because there were allegedly satanic messages in rock songs that were played backwards. So, when you say subliminal messages, that’s what my brain thinks of, although I know that was not always true. I’m not sure about those, I wish I could help you more.
Your ears hear. They transmit electrical impulse to the same part of your brain, which is not divided into a conscious and unconscious part. There are no subliminal messages. There may be things we sense but are not directly conscious of (some human pheromones for example).
A while back, I was browsing at a favorite used book shop and found a paperback called Backward Masking Unmasked. Written in 1983 by a youth minister named Jacob Aranza, it’s an unintentionally hilarious attempt to expose the alleged backward Satanic messages in rock music. For example, in the...
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