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THIS IS A REALLY QUICK ONE!!
MIND TRICK? (Or not)Have you ever wondered if your mind is
normal or different? Well, do this little mind exercise and
find out at the end!Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge.
Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.
There’s no trick or surprise. Just follow these instructions, and
answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can. Again, as quickly as you can but don’t advance until you’ve done each of them…really.
Now, scroll down(but not too fast, you might miss something)……..
What is:
1+5
2+4
3+3
4+2
5+1
Now repeat saying the number 6 to
yourself as fast as you can for
15 seconds. Then scroll down.QUICK! THINK OF A VEGETABLE!
Then arrow down.Keep going.
You’re thinking of a carrot, right?
If not, you’re among the 2% of the
population whose minds are different
enough to think of something else.
98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise.I personally thought of a Potato when I did this.
uh, i thought of corn. curious that people think of carrots… why would that be? i’m also curious to know the source of this “mind trick” and where they came up with the 98% of people. was this a legitimate study done somewhere?
spike… tomatoes are technically fruits.
Wikipedia wrote:The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red, from the pigment lycopene) berry, 1-2 cm diameter in wild plants, commonly much larger in cultivated forms.although… then i found this as well:
Wikipedia wrote:Many foods are botanically a fruit, but are treated as vegetables in cooking. These include … tomatoes …so i suppose. interesting choice.
Tigerblade wrote:i’m also curious to know the source of this “mind trick” and where they came up with the 98% of people. was this a legitimate study done somewhere?I found this on albinoblacksheep.com. The page didn’t say if it was a study done somewhere, but they have other things that show what study it was from, It don’t seem like thier nature to lie about something like that. I’ve done this with other people and they said “carrots”. Maybe it depends weather your under stress or something.
Oh, and I googled “mind trick 6 study” and found other poeple’s personal responses to this and a personal study done by a teacher here:http://snoozebuttondreams.com/archives/010366.html
Tigerblade wrote:spike… tomatoes are technically fruits.
…Wikipedia wrote:Many foods are botanically a fruit, but are treated as vegetables in cooking. These include … tomatoes …
Heh, so I guess I’m really unique, thinking of a fruit that’s tectnically a vegetable.Yeah, I’d like to know where this 98% came from, too, becuase here, it doesn’t seem to be the case, in fact, I think it’s actually the 98% that don’t think of fruit.
I also thought of a carrot…I wonder how on earth my mind (and supposidly 98% of the world’s minds) connect the number 6, and carrots. Really crazy, fun though!
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