Mind Trick

[lorin]

Please SPOILER your answer


Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal? Well, do this little mind exercise and find out ---- 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)...

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Now repeat saying the number 6 to yourself as fast as you can for 15 seconds. Then scroll down.

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> QUICK! THINK OF A VEGETABLE! Then arrow down.
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> You're thinking of a carrot, right?
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If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think something else. 98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise.

[lorin]

Spoiler

I was going to say cucumber but at the last second I said carrot. why did i change it?

[Infelice]

Spoiler

I thought of tomato

[rdhopeca]

Spoiler

i said carrot

[Fist and Faith]

Spoiler

lorin, it doesn't say to speak the name of a vegetable. It says think of one. Sounds like you first thought cucumber.

I was struggling to quickly think of a vegetable, and after some half-formed images went through my mind, I did think carrot.

[aliantha]

Spoiler

Thought broccoli, said green bean. Wonder what *that* means?

[Fist and Faith]

Too late, lorin! I got a good visual, now!!!

[lorin]

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lorin, it doesn't say to speak the name of a vegetable. It says think of one. Sounds like you first thought cucumber.

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sexual repression, perhaps

[Fist and Faith]

Ah. I thought you'd had second thoughts when you deleted it the first time.

[lorin]

Spoiler

Thought broccoli, said green bean. Wonder what *that* means?

my therapist might say it was manifestation of internal conflicts. 'Course, he's a posterchild for internal conflict.

[lorin]

Ah. I thought you'd had second thoughts when you deleted it the first time.

Ha, there goes that queen of self doubt, no......just couldnt get the spoiler to work. and for some reason I needed to clarify repressed sexuality and sexual repression.

[Fist and Faith]

Yeah, ali, that's really weird.

[I'm Murrin]

I thought of a marrow because of a scene in Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which was on TV today. That is, after I got the image of a banana out of my head.

[[Syl]]

Spoiler

celery

[Menolly]

I've done this before, and although I knew the answer I still...

Spoiler

thought of a carrot

[aliantha]

Looks like a bunch of us here are weird...

[Kaydene]

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Eggplant here.
Hurm.

[lorin]

so much for that 2% rule

[Dread Poet Jethro]

Spoiler

We make a fine pear
If you carrot all for me
Lettuce be married

[Savor Dam]

For the record,

Spoiler

Yes, I thought carrot.

Anyone have an explanation of this? I have a half-baked theory, but nothing to back it up but uninformed psychological speculation.