Subliminal messaging, its effectiveness and its use has always been a disputed and controversial topic. I do not know what your opinion on subliminal messages are but I hope this article will convince you that they do in fact work.

For starters what is subliminal messaging?

A quick google search on subliminal messages returns the following definition:

Subliminal Messages: Words or messages communicated at a level below the conscious mind’s ability to perceive. Allegedly, messages can enter directly into the subconscious mind, thus by-passing the rational/logical center of the individual’s brain.

Notice I highlighted and underlined the word allegedly. The reason being this word leaves doubt as to whether these subliminal messages work or not. I personally believe they do, but recently I have come to learn that subliminal images are even more effective than subliminal text messages.

Basically subliminal messages work in this way:

Lets say you are a smoker, and I tell you, from this point on you are now a non smoker. Naturally since you are probably holding a cigarette, your room smells of smoke or maybe there is an ashtray right next to you with fresh cigarette butts all pointing out and indicating that this is a lie you won’t believe it and you will carry on smoking that next cigarette. Essentially your conscious mind acts as filter and filters this messages as false.

Subliminal messages are devised in such a way that your conscious mind does not pick up on them and therefore cannot do its job in acting like a filter. They enter directly into the subconscious part of the brain and are acted upon by it, mainly because the subconscious relies on the conscious part of the brain to relay to it only useful information and filter any information that it considers as false.

Now for a real world example: Have you watched the movie Fight Club? I can easily say that that movie is one of my all time favorites in fact if I didn’t like it so much I wouldn’t have watched it again and I wouldn’t even be writing this article.

If you watched that movie remember how macho Brad Pitt looks in that movie, especially with a cigarette in his mouth? I think this was blatantly promoted and even scarier, for some reason there are several hidden subliminal messages planted in that movie!

Ever remember seeing this scene?:

Check what Brad Pitt is doing?

If you watch the movie keep a sharp eye out for this scene. I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of something flash by while this scene played on my PC. It might have been my computer just slowed down that moment to read the DVD, nevertheless I was lucky enough to pick up on something. I paused it and re winded it frame by frame and what do you know!!!

If that is no subliminal message then why is it included in the movie? Why go through the trouble of adding such a covert frame in the midst of the movie? Trust me finding this took an agonizing long time rewinding frame by frame.

By the way this isn’t the only one, there are several in this movie alone and the character in the movie even mentions something about it himself. If you haven’t watched it then you should, just so you know what I’m talking about here.

I myself seriously don’t have the patience for searching frame by frame to spot these things, this may have well been a fluke but if you do happen to take the time and find other subliminal messages in any movie that is meant to get you smoking then you know our address give us a shout and we’ll be glad to publish it.

By the way if it is of any importance to you this is supposed to be an R rated movie, meaning children of the age 17 and under can watch it but, they have to be accompanied by their parents. Lets face the reality of things, first of all kids these days can get their hands on anything they want to watch and secondly how is a parent watching this movie with their child going to shelter them from the above subliminal message?

This leaves me with two questions for you the reader, which brings me back to the initial purpose of this article.

Do subliminal messages work?

My personal opinion, if the tobacco companies are finding no other way of advertising their product since every medium is being blocked out then what are they going to do with all that money left untouched? Hey why not what a great idea we’ll pay these millions we have on one great subliminal ad to the next popular blockbuster movie that is going to be a big hit and voila sales go up!

The other question is do you seriously still want to support these guys if that’s where your cigarette money is going?