Interrupted Sleep

Commercials Placed in Your Mind While Sleeping

So, the articles in question are a little bit old, but do you remember ever seeing it? Do remember debating it? Did you ever think you would need a law to protect the privacy of your mind from advertisements?

Subliminal Messaging, whereby your mind was subconsciously influenced to make purchases you would not have made had you been consciously in control of your decision-making process, was outlawed by the US Government. Well, now advertisers have found a way to put commercials directly into your brain while you sleep. You will dream about them. Do we need to write ‘no solicitors’ on our foreheads?

Advertisements may be overreaching. It has gotten so bad forests will be cut down just to put up a billboard. There’s hardly a place you can’t go where someone is vying for your eye. Are corporations that desperate that every eye and ear space must be filled with reminders that we should buy?

And now, they can put it directly into your head.

Molson Coors, meanwhile, collaborated with Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., a part-time assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University’s Department of Psychiatry…