Mind Control and Implanted Memories

(Understanding how others control your reality, and how to break free.)

April 13, 2022

It's strange how easily moldable people are. Our minds.

Your reality - how you see yourself, how others see you, how you feel emotions, how you respond to situations, how you remember events, etc

It can all be changed without you even realising it. But who's to say which reality was really real. Were they both equally real?

A mechanism to do this would be through reinforced behaviors.

So an individual who is used to eating dinner while watching TV, they would feel an urge to snack while watching TV elsewhere.

Someone who frequently pees in the shower, from hearing the sound or seeing the visual of running water, will cause them to feel the need to pee

The same technique is used by parents to teach their kids right from wrong. Reinforcing behaviors.

Your kid might naturally have more defiant or attention seeking behaviors, so during an outburst a parent has two options:

Reinforce the attention seeking behavior and give in, or Reinforce NON- attention seeking behavior

How you would see this play out in the real world would be in somewhere like a family trip to the museum.

The kid demands a toy from the giftshop at the end of the trip. Their stamping their feet, screaming, crying. The works.

The parent who chooses to buy the toy for the kid each time, the child will then learn that outbursts result in getting what they want. They scream, they get a toy

Later on in life, this person would instinctually respond with strong emotions to get what they want. Instead of just asking alone, or even asking at all, their

course of action would be to initially go for the emotional appeal. Which usually looks like a break down.

On the other hand, another parent might choose to ignore the child. If they can calm down and ask politely, I will respond positivly.

If their outburst continues or worsens, I will continiue to ignore; even walk away.

Later in life, this child's initial response to wanting something will be to ask first calmly. And that any loss of temper, immediately means you've lost.

This is the same thing as Classical Conditioning (or Pavlovian Conditioning). Pavlovian would ring his bell everyday before feeding his dogs.

After a while of this happening, he noticed that his dogs mouths would salivate when he would ring the bell, in the anticipation for food. And this would happen with or without food

Through the same technique, one could train themselves or others to anhibit a thought, feeling, behavior, to a given situation or stimuli. And they could do so without even realising it/p>

Imagine how many things about yourself, your world, that were not your real actions or thoughts at all.

Think about patterns in your life that would repeat. To where you feel, you know what's going to happen, even before it does.

Think about the ways you were diciplined as a child, or even today. Think about how you respond to different situations, what you associate with what.

Do you get any weird cravings? How have you responded to breakups in the past? etc

Even larger things in society. Your religion. Who you're supposed to love. What gender role you should be. What should make you emotional. What should make you angry. Your values.

Reinforcing behaviours can also lead to things like: prejudice, biases, racia profiling, sterotypes, etc.

All of which are entirely logical in each individuals mind.

Reinforced behaviors can also loop, and feed into their own broken interal logic. Causing the associations to strenghen on their own.

I know what the idea of an implanted memory seems like science fiction. But I'm sure you've encountered a situation like this

You've never met your grandparents before. They died when you we're young, or before you were born. But through all the stories you've heard about them. The pictures. You honestly feel like you DID know them

Or people talking about something that happened in the past, say in childhood. But you don't remember, so they bring out an old photo album and show you some snapshots.

Later on when the story is brought up, now you will remember.

If someone so desired, they could create a fake photograph. Use deepfake technology to copy over the face well enough. And insist that this was a real event that happened.

Someone could go one step closer, create a situation with simularities to your fake situation. Catching the person offguard too, so that their memories are fuzzy.

Eventually when enough time passes, you show them the doctored photograph and insist it's real, and you let their brain fill in the gaps.

Doing this, with enough reenforcement from others, or a trauatic enough event - and this technique could be detrimental.

And really in this type of situations, these individuals don't know this isn't a real memory.

From the information they were given, it seems like it kinda makes sense. ""and other people are saying its real, they even have a photo."".

You may think to yourself - well I could tell the difference. You know real memories are real because they happened and you were there.

Well I challenge you. Remember that case where someone experienced something happening. They entirely forget. Then shown a photograph of the event. And although they don't have direct memories of it.

They would still say, ""yeah I remember my fifth birthday"".

Think about your oldest memory(ies). You were born before that time right? And after thinking about your oldest memories, or older ones. You may notice something.

The memories farther away from the present, especially ones you dont think about often, are weaker. Faded. They're dodgey. But they are still memories, right? And these events did take place... I think?

I would argue that the distant memories of yours that are faded and weak, are about the same general vaueness as seeing a photograph of a fake event, and interalising it as a true memory.

If either/both of these happen enough. Can you really say they're the same person? Well, they are the same person. They've just be altered (unknowingly).

It's the idea of reductionism. What and how many, parts can be removed from a whole, before it becomes a new entity entirely?

So with a chair. How many parts of the chair (legs, arms, back rest, seat, etc) could you remove, until it's not a chair anymore? It's just cut wood.. or metal.. or plastic.

And which part of the thing is the most crucial part of that thing. What is its smallest component to still be what it was/is - a chair?

This can be applied to humans too when thinking about reinforced behaviors and implanted memories:

How many memories and behaviours can be altered, before it becomes a new person? or maybe not a person at all. And what part of the person, is the most important part, for that person to stay distinct and alive?

So, which you is the real you? (are they all equally you?, are none of them you?)

What is your most important part of yourself?

Everyone is shaped from their experiences. The important thing is to be knowledgeable of that.

Once this is something you recognise, you can be more mindful of what you allow become part of yourself, and better understand who you really are.

Because the truth is. People can think whatever they want about you, and treat you however they want. They can control their reality.

Their reality doesn't need to be your reality. You can keep them seperate, and only allow in what is meaningful to you.

You can retrain your brain's responses to certain stimuli, to react differently to a given situation. Determine your core values and truth.

You will stop allowing people from altering your reality through actions and words. Because you'll know what's real to you.

Hope this was interesting enough to read for a first blogpost. Sorry if it the ideas in here are confusing (or just don't make sense at all), and my grammar/spelling is off.

I had no plan while writing this, so it truely is word diarrhea.

Hopefully it was interesting? helpful? or anything like that. Until next time.