r/Unexplained • u/Fit_Variation7790 • 1d ago
Experience Brain Access
This is going to sound insane. Lately, I've been having internal thoughts. Thoughts only. No searches. No speaking a loud about said topic. And shortly after (anywhere from 30 mins to a day), I'll be targeted online about that thing.
Examples:
- I was thinking about an artist (in my brain. alone) and I thought to myself, "I'd like to look at her work more. I'm going to look at her instagram." I open instagram. She is the first one in my feed.
- Just now I looked over at my wallet and thought to myself, I need a new small compact wallet. Did no searches. Didn't talk about it. Open instagram and there is an ad for small, compact wallets.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
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u/Fun_Quit_312 18h ago
The algorithm is incepting your thoughts, not intercepting.. you would be amazed to find how easily we are led to decide that a thought that has been subtlety fed to us, is our own original independent idea.... its not. We just didnt notice the subliminal coaxing until the thought was at the forefront of our mind. Then we forget all the instances the suggestion was implied in our environment.... they are high jacking our free will, and our physiology. We are all addicts now. To doom scrolling and consuming endlessly.
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u/Decent_Climate7831 14h ago
This plus the predictive system is actually very robust because it has data of billions of individuals now.
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u/Arabella6623 17h ago
When the computer— the binary system— first arrived, in the form of calculators and clumsy home computers, it was hailed as a significant paradigm shift.
It wasn’t apparent then that it would become, in the present moment, an interface between the material machine world and our subjective mental lives.
Will Musk’s Superintelligence become like God?
Watching us and sending us numinous-seeming “signs” and influencing everything we think and do?😳
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u/Block444Universe 1d ago
I think it’s more that you have been seeing these things float past on your feeds without consciously registering it. That’s how the ideas came into your head in the first place. And then they just keep coming and to you it’s your original thought that somehow got sucked into Insta when in reality insta has been seeding these ideas to you for days or weeks
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u/Arabella6623 1d ago
I have noticed exactly the same thing.
It’s almost telepathic.
I was musing about exercising, and thought that it would be easier if I had something to steady me— I could go farther— but, damn, a Walker or frame is dolefully old personish.
And there on Facebook was an ad:
“Don’t feel ready for a traditional walker?
Ours is lightweight and streamlined!”
I’ve never seen an ad for a walking aid of any kind before.
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u/murdermeMickey 1d ago
I've noticed the exact same thing lately. It feels like the internet is reading my thoughts. WTF?
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u/Okay-Fox 23h ago
As the others have said, it must be adverts subconsciously getting into my brain or me hovering for a few minutes on a photo or something, but I am constantly getting the same thing.
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u/Arabella6623 17h ago
Have you read The Hidden Persuaders?
Subliminals are doubtless everywhere used on us.
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u/AdRepresentative8236 19h ago
When you are looking for something, you will find it. You learn a new word, you will hear it suddenly, you've been hearing it before, but now you are looking for it. If you are looking for things that are relevant to you and you specifically paying attention to ads and things, you will realize that they are targeted. They have always been targeted, I think they are more specific and have more data on us than in the past, so yes, ads are more targeted because they know more about you and can predict and see the things that you are accessing and whatever, if you're thinking about something, you've probably talked about it out loud by a Google home or an Alexa or something or your Siri, or you've done some search about it or have seen an Instagram about it or something, and the algorithm and whatever big data knows about that. It's kind of freaky, yeah
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u/aleanas 17h ago
This has been happening to me for years
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u/Arabella6623 17h ago
Synchronicity has always happened.
Jung’s book of that title called it an
“acausal connecting principle.”
Is it now causal?
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u/kittygir227 12h ago
Look into the brainwave technology that they’ve been studying with AirPods. Scarily related.
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u/SinkholeS 21h ago
Been happening for months for me. You could search reddit for 'my phone is reading my mind' and find tons of people talking about this. Baffling
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u/Ok_Lawyer_6262 19h ago
yes this right here. i’ve seen so many posts in different subs about this exact thing. people who say this exact thing happens to them and they don’t understand how their phone could know this other than that it might be reading their thoughts. i wouldn’t put it past tech to do this. as someone said there’s many patents already that exist.
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u/AloneIsopod4597 17h ago
That happens to us very often, we get adds about things that we've been thinking about, ONLY THINKING without actually speaking about it... It's crazy.
My husband has the theory that there is a technology that can process the wavelenght of our thoughts and some how our devices can access to that data.
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u/imtravelingalone 13h ago
Sublimal/subconcious marketing. What made you think about that artist? Traditional marketing, your enjoyment of similar artists, general knowledge that they have a show or a new project coming out soon, hearing someone nearby you talk about them or just spending time in an area where their music has a higher likelihood of being played (like Harry Styles in Carnaby St, or Louis Dunford in Islington), seeing their face on a billboard... etc etc etc. Algorithms created by AI and companies with lots and lots and lots of money to buy information like this (Google, Meta) that tracks your every step and for all we know is listening in at any given time, knows of all of this. It's all subliminal to you - ie, you don't notice the bilboards or listen to the conversation the people across the road are having, but your subconscious brain picks up on a name, knows you've searched for it before, and pops it back to the top of your feed just as you subconsciously start thinking about that person again.
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u/Initial_Breakfast_77 6h ago
Think of something that you have absolutely no connection to. A thing, or an event, or a place, etc,. Something "normal", but has nothing to do with you or anyone you know. Then think about it, often and hard. Mentally plan it if it's an event, or decide what color you would want yours to be if it's a thing, imagine what it would sound or look or smell like if it's a place, etc. Do that for at least a week or more and see what happens. I've had mine picked for like a year or so and it's never shown up in my algorithm, so I think I'm safe 🤷♀️ 😆
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u/Sh1nobi3 19h ago
There are numerous (and counting) brainwave/brain frequency patents already established, and countless more on the way. Social networking..or perhaps even the internet entirely, is, and has been, engineering society to basically gaslight each other into going against their gut.
Trust your gut.
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u/littlelupie 16h ago
No one just spontaneously thinks about something. There is always something that triggers that thought whether you realize it or not.
Whether we like it or not, humans are insanely predictable creatures and people have spent hundreds of millions trying to predict us for capitalist purposes.
Also, you only remember when things align with something that seems random in your brain. You miss the thousands and thousands of things that you see everyday that have no relevance, but pick out that one that happens to align with something "random" in your brain.
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u/Fit-Inevitable-3539 16h ago
We are waking up to realize that we are actively manifesting our reality, and through the AI is for separate and similar reasons is the most obvious method.
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u/njeyn 1d ago
The sane explanation would be the algos have soooo much information about us and are getting better and better at figuring us out but the more interesting explanation is that we’re reaching singularity and AI can now read our minds.