Believe Everything You See on TV...

...Your subconscious naturally functions that way.

Mediabully PRESENT, to follow up on what our psyche is cookin’ up in terms of the influence media has upon us. Halloween is fast approaching and you know what that means… Many of us have got the popcorn popped and are ready for the scary movie marathons leading up to it. Gotta love the horror films! The suspense we get as we see the naïve girl (who doesn’t watch horror movies herself, apparently) play investigator and rummage through the haunted house alone. She opens the closet door and looks up at the secret mysterious door above her. She pushes the door open which leads to a dark, grimy attic and BAAMMM! The onomatopoeia doesn’t have as much impact as the actual movie I attempted to reference, The Grudge, does. However, the actual film or horror movies in general do have an impact on the human body and mind. Generally, your heart rate increases especially at the scary moments. You may possibly believe that the scene has no impact on you because you know it’s not real, but your subconscious, however, believes it is real.

“People who immersed in the surrogate reality of television life deal on a daily basis with the reality totally unlike any that has preceded it. The image stream is a steady mixed up stream of real, unreal and semi-real events. All of these events end up merging with each other and becoming just another set of stored imagery that have all similar reality values.” The effect can desensitize a person and create thin blur line between the real and unreal. My next post will be a real life example of this phenomenon using media violence in relationship to soldiers.

Until then… Poka!

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