Experiment to passively program brain

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Last night I started a little experiment to attempt to program my brain to think more mathematically.

I usually listen to music to drown out other sounds when I need to concentrate, to help time pass while I'm doing mundane tasks, and to drown out outside noise while I'm sleeping.

I want to replace the music with audio files of math tutorials, other such educational content, and maybe also just audio of pure math problems, equations, and facts if I can find something like that. I want to see if it will help my math proficiency, and the way I think during the day, even if I'm not really paying attention to it.

I figure that some subconscious part of my brain is picking up on the patterns coming in through my ears. So if it becomes familiar with those mathematical patterns in some capacity, perhaps my general performance can improve through this sort of passive programming.

Though, of course I don't believe it could be any real replacement to regular studying- just an enhancement method.

Also, I'm no conspirator, but some of those types like to claim big wigs are trying to program the population with subtle messages in media to control the way everyone thinks.

Essentially, the idea behind that would be that people can learn, change and develop patterns of thinking without actively paying attention to the specific thing they're being programmed with.

Another thing is that when I go to sleep listening to something, it can creep into my dreams. If I've watched the music video for a song before, or seen a picture or person related to it, those images also sometimes appear in my dreams alongside the sound.

I hope to end up dreaming in math or computer code with this, because I think that would be cool.

Anyway, I'm skeptical about whether my experiment will work to the hoped for extent, but it probably can't make me stupider, or waste too much of my time, so why not?

What do you guys think? I won't blame you if you think it's silly.

BONUS QUESTION FOR FOR THOSE WHO THINK IT COULD WORK EVEN A LITTLE BIT:

Do you think playing recordings in my own voice could make this more effective?

The voice of my thoughts is probably like my own speaking voice, so I wonder if my brain would more readily and smoothly accept the audio into my natural thought process

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  • FromTheSouthWeirdMan
    4 years ago

    The CIA concluded through tests like MK Ultra that the best way to "brain wash' is through repetition. Say it over and over and over to someone, or yourself, and eventually you'll believe it.

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  • SkullsNRoses
    4 years ago

    I doubt you will have much success with this unless you already have reasonably good understanding of equations.

    I’ve tried this myself in a way, playing audio recordings in Spanish to improve my listening but when it’s too advanced I just unintentionally zone out. Some phrases and grammar patterns did subconsciously slip through when I made sure I could understand at least 60% of what they were saying though.

    Basically keep it reasonably close to your level of understanding, listen to the same ones a multiple times and you might see some improvement.

    Dreaming about computer code is a reasonable goal but completely IN it I doubt would be possible. Side note I recommend reading up about the psychology of dreaming, it’s pretty interesting.

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