Hanan ParvezThis article will briefly go over the concept of anchoring in psychology and later discuss the anchoring techniques you can use to make use of the phenomenon. When two separate events happen simultaneously enough number of times such that occurring of one event reminds you of the other, the events are said to be anchored …
This article attempts to explain the famous placebo effect in psychology, throwing light on the historical background of the effect. You go to a doctor with a severe headache and fever. After examining you for a while, he gives you some shiny pills and asks you to take them every day after meals. He says …
A covert hypnosis technique is the one in which a person is hypnotized without their knowledge. It’s usually carried out in a conversation. The idea that someone can control our mind using their speech freaks out many people. They forget that we’ve all been covertly hypnotized in one way or the other. Our entire childhood …
The goal of hypnosis is to program the mind of a person with a desired belief or a suggestion or a command. This is done by inducing a highly suggestible ‘trance state’ in the person in which he becomes highly receptive to ‘suggestions’ and his conscious resistance is greatly weakened, if not entirely turned off. …
The more you understand the subconscious mind, the better you become in understanding yourself. Following are some important characteristics of the subconscious mind that will help you increase your understanding of it… 1) The subconscious mind thinks in the form of images Your subconscious mind stores all your memories and experiences in the form of …
In dreams, while our conscious mind is inactive, our subconscious mind is actively working on problems that we may have failed to solve consciously in our waking life. That’s why it’s highly likely that a solution to a problem that you’ve been working on for quite a while can pop up in your dream. This …
This article will explain to you the meaning of recurring dreams and why we get such dreams. Later, we’ll look at how to stop having recurring dreams. Suppose you wanted to send an important email to someone but as soon as you hit the send button, your screen displays, ‘Message not sent. Check your network …
Teeth falling out or rotting or breaking dreams are common types of dreams that many people have seen. Along with dreaming about flying, falling, being chased and being lost, such dreams are pretty much universal. These dreams pose a challenge to the way we usually interpret dreams. The best way to interpret your dreams is …
In this article, we unveil the mystery surrounding dreaming of falling, flying and being naked. Dreaming of falling This dream can take up other forms such as drowning or sinking in quicksand. This dream generally represents a loss of control that you may be currently experiencing in your life. You took a big risk, quit …
This article will discuss the interpretation of a common dream that people, especially students, have- the dream about failing in an exam. We all have our unique dream symbols, the meaning of which can be understood in the light of our own belief systems. Nevertheless, there also exist some dreams that are common to most …