Can't keep eyes off crap on telly

by Leolaia 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  Leolaia

  Right now it is early morning hours, the house is still, I'm in a half-trance and on the telly is the after-midnight "Estate and New Jewelry Show" that is as hypnotic as heck. Most of it is sparkling jewelry spinning around on a rack to some really bad music that in my normal mind would be not worth a second of synapse resources, but in the sizzling sleep-deprived wide-eyed state it just draws me in.... I guess that's why they show this crap so late at night. Sometimes I dream while awake when I stay up all night, and this is the sort of thing that stirs the unconscious in some vague way...THOUGH IT'S A PIECE OF SHYTE....

  I know it's not just me. I've seen other ppl inexplicably drawn in to late-night infomercials. So is it subliminal or does the mind just rot during the middle of the night?
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  FlyingHighNow

  So is it subliminal or does the mind just rot during the middle of the night?

  The mind just rots. Take it from someone who knows.

  Flyin'
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  FMZ

  I do the same thing when I'm real tired... though not always watching TV. If I havent had enough sleep, and am getting ready for work, there are times I apparently just zone out whilst stood there, staring into space. The wife has to snap me outta it, cause I don't realize I just go brain-dead. I think our brainwaves just get stuck in either Delta or Theta patterns, which cause us to be very mellow (and strangely enough, open to suggestion).

  Interesting you mentioned something about stirring the unconcious... Delta and Theta patterns are reached in meditation, as well as dreaming; both of which have a lot to do with the unconcious. Maybe the infomercial peeps are trying to literally hypnotize people.

  FMZ
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  Leolaia

  Well, rotting is fine with me as long as it doesn't smell.
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  Leolaia

  I never tried meditation but maybe I might have a knack for it. If I suddenly get struck with the hiccups I can usually on command zone out and change my breathing and stare into nothingness and halt the hiccups immediately. But it only works if I catch it within the first one or two. Once it gets a rhythm going, my "meditation" cannot halt them though it usually lengthens the duration between hiccups.
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  LittleToe

  This is an "April Fool's" joke, right? You don't have time to watch telly, with all the research you do
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  Leolaia

  But I would still have time to make April Fool's jokes?

  And how gullible am I? I initially fell for both the ones on this list!
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  Country Girl

  Leolaia:

  I used to make fun of my friend because she would fall for all the infomercial crap at night and buy stuff. I used to tell her: "There's one born every minute." She almost fell for the Nigerian scammer stuff, but luckily called my husband and I asking about it. Then....

  The other night, after a *long* day at the airport waiting for a delayed plane flight after being at the Silentlambs conference, and finding out that our plane would NOT take off as scheduled, and we'd have to be put up at a hotel for the night, I found myself inexplicably drawn to the infomercials. I was just laying there in that hotel room, so bored, longing for home and the comfort of my own bed. My bags had gone on to Texas, and I was without necessary toiletries, clothes, etc. for comfort in small, crowded conditions. I was quite disenchanted. I flipped through the channels and saw the infomercial for six second abs. The commercial went on and on, showing several BEFORE and AFTER photos, and I thought: "There's the perfect solution to my problems. If I had washboard abs like that, the plane would take off because I *said* so." Hmmph. It took 20 minutes or so for them to show the price, and it was all I could do to keep my body from flying to the credenza to get into my purse to get my credit card. I switched channels, and found one infomercial for at-home face peels. I watched some more. I didn't have my Bayer PMs with me, so I was Awake! <---- pun intended.

  I watched several testimonials, Before and After photos, and determined that if I looked twenty years younger, I could conquer the world. It was a citrus peel. Now.. I am a frugal person (after many years of JW life) and I thought $60 was a bit much when you could march down to Home Depot and get that citrus garage floor cleaner and put it on your face for $7.95. It's all natural, after all. Then I remembered when I put that citrus stuff on the inside of my stove and it literally ate through years of hard baked goo and I thought: No way am I putting that on my face. I'll be a skeleton in five minutes! Sure, I won't have any wrinkles, but neither will I have any skin. In both cases, my credible mind just took over and I did not fall for the hype.

  Now if they advertise an In-Home liposuction kit, I'm a goner...

  CG
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  Leolaia

  hehehe....I don't know if I ever forked over money to those guys before, but you see now we got this wonderful thing called the Internet. Anytime I see an infomercial that advertises this wonderous new product, I just go over to the puter and type the name of the product into Google and usually add a word like "sucks" or "fraud" or something like that, and see what the real deal is. It's saved me money, at least a few times!

  BTW, if you ever go to continental Europe, sometimes on late night TV they have these phone sex commercials. They are each about 5 seconds long, and they show a ton of them, and they repeat over and over, most a quite grotesque and some quite funny, but their brevity and repetition makes them quite hypnotic....