This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Shoebox: Set up a discussion thread on the Trope Repair Forum (as of 07/19/09) proposing that this page be merged into Subliminal Seduction, from which it's clearly derived.
Mike Rosoft: In the meanwhile, I am removing the following (as clearly stated in the preceding entry, subliminal advertising etc. doesn't actually work, and the original study showing that it did turned to be a fraud.
- Another Real Life example, at one point in time movies at the movie theater would include about one frame (longer that 72 frames per second but shorter than 30 frames per second, the speed that the subconscious mind can see but not the conscious) in one hundred feet of film that would make a person feel thirsty (a desert picture) or hungry (a tantalizing meal). It has since been made illegal unless it contributes to the film.
I don't know who to do with the next entry - is it true or an urban legend?
- So instead of subliminal advertising it is subliminal scaring in horror movies. As a scene is supposed to become more frightening, more gruesome frames are added for more frightening scenes (such as for only unnerving a deadly animal, for the serial killer breaking in they use animals being slaughtered).
