What does TV do to your Head?

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http://psychicdriving.com/disconnect/television.html

Psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland found that high frequency alpha waves [sic] does not occur normally when the eyes are open. In fact, Mulholland’s research implies that watching television is neurologically analogous to staring at a blank wall.
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While watching television, the brain appears to slow to a halt, registering low alpha wave readings on the EEG. This is caused by the radiant light produced by cathode ray technology [CRT, LCDs also?] within the television set [increases serotonin levels?]. Even if you're reading text on a television screen the brain registers low levels of activity. Once again, regardless of the content being presented, television essentially turns off your nervous system.

Television, Drug of a Nation
http://psychicdriving.com/disconnect/television_article_01.html


I will let you in on a little secret that marketers and governments have been relying on for decades. That television you watch every day, your secret best friend, is an addictive opiate, and not only that, it’s one of the most potent mind control devices ever produced. And I’m not just basing this on intuition. I have the neurological evidence to prove it.
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When you watch TV, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. In fact, experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that while viewers are watching television, the right hemisphere is twice as active as the left, a neurological anomaly.1 The crossover from left to right releases a surge of the body’s natural opiates: endorphins, which include beta-endorphins and enkephalins. Endorphins are structurally identical to opium and its derivatives (morphine, codeine, heroin, etc.). Activities that release endorphins (also called opioid peptides) are usually habit-forming (we rarely call them addictive)
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....when you're watching television the higher brain regions (like the midbrain and the neo-cortex) are shut down, and most activity shifts to the lower brain regions (like the limbic system). The neurological processes that take place in these regions cannot accurately be called “cognitive.”
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Herbert Krugman’s research proved that watching television numbs the left brain and leaves the right brain to perform all cognitive duties. This has some harrowing implications for the effects of television on brain development and health. For one, the left hemisphere is the critical region for organizing, analyzing, and judging incoming data. The right brain treats incoming data uncritically, and it does not decode or divide information into its component parts.
 
I agree. the only time I really "watch" television is when I have too many things on my mind and I just need to go to sleep.
 
My entire household has cut down on it's TV viewing drastically in the past 6mos...The only time I watch TV now is to find out what kind of info everybody else is getting and then it's for no extended amount of time; I really can't stomach it much anymore.
 
I have only one in the house, and to my mind, it's one too many.

If I had my way, I'd drag it out back and shoot it.
 
So I wasted so much time growing up basically staring at a magically hypnotic blank wall. Least I kicked the habit years ago at a young age, but still time wasted like that...


Have they conducted tests like this on interweb surfing?
 
It makes people apart of the collective consciousness of the establishment, and as the article demonstrates is an extremely effective brainwashing tool.
 
I was actually thinking the same while reading the linked articles.

I mean this kind of stuff really helps people kick bad habits. I'm sure we've all heard stories of someone immediately quit smoking, after seeing a picture of their lungs from a doctor.

I'd show this to TV-viewing family members but I'm a tad bit afraid of insulting them.
 
If you are all going to agree that viewing all tv is bad then you have to say the same about You Tube videos that we've learned so much from. Not all tv is crap, just most of it, but if watched properly it can be a great educational tool. I mainly just watch historical programs, documentaries and classic boxing, for me anything else is a waste.
 
If you are all going to agree that viewing all tv is bad then you have to say the same about You Tube videos that we've learned so much from. Not all tv is crap, just most of it, but if watched properly it can be a great educational tool. I mainly just watch historical programs, documentaries and classic boxing, for me anything else is a waste.

I agree, but also consider that television utilizes audio frequencies and psychological patterns that lull people as well. The film Zeitgeist actually scares people who watch TV into thinking that they are about to get brainwashed with misinformation because they use an overt audio and visual pattern at the beginning of the film, when the reality of what it presents is actually quite accurate and the information contained within is completely backed up with citations. It's really making a point about what we have known about the brainwashing techniques used by television for a long time, and really what it is supposed to represent is de-programming, but they are just messing around with the audio and visual patterns, obviously it doesn't actually do that.
 
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Chronic Internet Distress With Uncontrollable Suicidal Aggression

I don't know if I agree with what the information in the OP says, but I do know that too much Internet browsing can lead to this (especially here on Liberty Forest):

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If you are all going to agree that viewing all tv is bad then you have to say the same about You Tube videos that we've learned so much from. Not all tv is crap, just most of it, but if watched properly it can be a great educational tool. I mainly just watch historical programs, documentaries and classic boxing, for me anything else is a waste.


I only watch the following: Discovery, History, NGC, Travel, TV Land, and occasionally the scrambled channels where if you look really hard, you can see a boobie.
 
I agree, but also consider that television utilizes audio frequencies and psychological patterns that lull people as well. The film Zeitgeist actually scares people who watch TV into thinking that they are about to get brainwashed with misinformation because they use an overt audio and visual pattern at the beginning of the film, when the reality of what it presents is actually quite accurate and the information contained within is completely backed up with citations. It's really making a point about what we have known about the brainwashing techniques used by television for a long time, and really what it is supposed to represent is de-programming, but they are just messing around with the audio and visual patterns, obviously it doesn't actually do that.

I'm not really a Zeitgeist fan, but I can definitely agree that TV has played a huge role into conditioning our society into being over consuming sloths and becoming enslaved debtors.
 
I only watch the following: Discovery, History, NGC, Travel, TV Land, and occasionally the scrambled channels where if you look really hard, you can see a boobie.

HA!! Man, I remember those days when we had our huge satellite dish, where as a young teen, I also watched my first scrambled boobies. I didn't know they still make those dishes :D
 
I'm not really a Zeitgeist fan, but I can definitely agree that TV has played a huge role into conditioning our society into being over consuming sloths and becoming enslaved debtors.

Well the whole point of the first part of Zeitgeist is that you don't have to believe every little detail because the information has been controlled, changed and discarded over time. Even if it is evidence for 9/11, etc.. The point is that we have found out about these types of things in the past and we didn't adequately question the event. They straight up say that information has been controlled, changed and discarded over time, but many people don't seem to correlate what the movie is saying with the movie itself. I always have a very hard time explaining this, but that is very important for people to understand in order to comprehend the truth that is presented in the second and more importantly the third part of the film, the third part of the film being related to the components you stated you agree with above. So next time, if there is one, you can sit back and enjoy the film for what it is and understand that the cognitive dissonance to some information is natural, and you can do your own research to find out your own personal beliefs.
 
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If you are all going to agree that viewing all tv is bad then you have to say the same about You Tube videos that we've learned so much from. Not all tv is crap, just most of it, but if watched properly it can be a great educational tool. I mainly just watch historical programs, documentaries and classic boxing, for me anything else is a waste.

Yes, the computer screen has similar impact as the TV screen....

"....when you're watching television the higher brain regions (like the midbrain and the neo-cortex) are shut down, and most activity shifts to the lower brain regions (like the limbic system). The neurological processes that take place in these regions cannot accurately be called “cognitive."

I agree, but also consider that television utilizes audio frequencies and psychological patterns that lull people as well. The film Zeitgeist actually scares people who watch TV into thinking that they are about to get brainwashed with misinformation because they use an overt audio and visual pattern at the beginning of the film, when the reality of what it presents is actually quite accurate and the information contained within is completely backed up with citations. It's really making a point about what we have known about the brainwashing techniques used by television for a long time, and really what it is supposed to represent is de-programming, but they are just messing around with the audio and visual patterns, obviously it doesn't actually do that.
Please keep the Zeitgeist psyop out of this discussion... lets focus on the technology, which is the primary technique of interest. Once the technology transitions humans into non-cognitive-states, they can download whatever "content" they want into our cerebral "kernel."
 
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