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Subliminal Messages, And How They Are Affecting You

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Human Psychology works in wondrous ways, and most times- in methods easy to succumb to and peculiar to understand. One such instance is the theory of sending Subliminal and Supraliminal message to the human brain and how it reacts to it.  While supraliminal message deals with exaggerating and posing a statement loud and clear; so much so that the receiver understands it as urgency, subliminal message is an indirect influence of something that may or may not have any significance to the concerned person in real life. If we study how advertising works, it is either conveying a subliminal message or vice-versa. While a big “SALE” message or “Buy One, Get 1 Free” poster is directly telling us that we should buy a particular product and that we can save money on it too, a subliminal message is often nonexistent, but equally powerful, if not more so. Imagine a skin-care company launching a new soap range for kids. It wouldn’t actually sell soaps, because who would...