Visual subliminal messages can best be described by paintings. All your focus is on the words but the next time you hear the same beat again, your brain will be able to recognize it. For instance, you may be listening to the words of a song, but there are other things happening in the song such as background voices, ad-libs, the constituents of the beat such as drums, kicks, snares and the melody. Subliminal messages are things that happen below the normal perception limit. In simpler terms, while the conscious mind might be hearing the rustling of leaves, the subconscious mind may be hearing some hidden message from the universe. However, the subconscious mind is able to pick up the message and process it at a level that the conscious cannot understand. Verbal subliminal messages are usually soft and inaudible to your conscious mind. This begs the question, what constitutes a subliminal message? Therefore, once you wake up, you will have a deeper understanding of the language or the rules of success you were listening to last night. Researchers say that these messages are able to be processed since they bypass the conscious part of the brain (which is sound asleep by now) and go into the deeper part of the mind. There has been talking of people learning foreign languages and listening to motivation audio tapes in their sleep. Many people and researchers argue that they actually work. But does it really work? Can your brain really process information and pick up on verbal or visual cues without your knowledge and yet you are asleep? It seems too hard to believe. There have been numerous talks on how we pick up on subliminal messages when we are asleep, how we can use it to learn different languages, amongst other theories. All these happen when we are fully awake. Music, advertisements and movies have taken advantage of subliminal messages to coerce us into buying their products and derive meaning from the smallest of clues. How else do you explain déjà vu or the feeling that something is familiar yet you cannot remember exactly why?
We are constantly confronted with signals and messages that our brains process subconsciously without our knowledge.
The world is full of subliminal messages.