Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal? Well, do this little mind exercise and find out! Free will or neurological wiring? You decide!
Try the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow. There’s no secret trick to it!
Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can. Remember, do it as quickly as you can, but don’t advance until you’ve done each of them.
Now, scroll down (but not too fast, so you don’t miss anything)...
If not, you’re among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think something else. 98% of people will think of a carrot when they do this exercise!
Well first thing that came to ind was SIX. Then the color orange and then Carrot.
What it comes down is psycology.
You are conditioning your brain to associate things with the number 6. All the answers are variations of 6. By the time it comes to repeating the word six for 15 seconds, you are committing the number to your deeper consciousness, that is why when it asks for a vegetable, your still active brain which is buzzing with 6 association, reaches into your subconscious and plucks out a vegetable that has 6 letters.
The reason carrot is the most common answer is simply because it is a common vegetable that everyone has knowledge of and therefore is the quickest subconscious answer your brain can draw out. Quickness is the key, that is why there is an emphasis on rushing through the questions quickly. This utilities a different part of the brain for answers than is used for logic and thought processes. The answer is almost instinctual.
The 2 percent of people who don’t answer carrot will still answer with a six letter word but they may not have a good knowledge of carrots or have a more familiar vegetable instead.
Note that the first thing that came to my head apart from the number six was the color orange. Now how many letters does O.R.A.N.G.E. have...SIX. Again, as an artist, I associate more with colors than vegetables, hence despite the question asked for a vegetable, the color orange flooded my brain.
It’s all pretty simple when you understand the concept of how brain programing works
what about tomato? or potato? even tho ur theory does seem likly i wouldnt confirm it, i mean i dont realise how many letters there are in a word until i count them up
Think. what color is a carrot. Orange! and how many letters does carrot and orange have?
6 letters each.
Also, carrots are one of the most common vegetables, so it is easy o think of it in a pinch cause they are already familiar
so you have the familiarity of carrots plus the letter number association of 6 for both the name and the color of this vegetable so you are getting a subconscious triple whammy.
Dogbert said the deepest thing ever.
“It is all a part of the big illusion we perpetuate upon ourselves and which is in turn perpetuated upon us. When we believe we engage the illusion, when we stop believing we shatter the illusion and ourselves in the process because we are part of it."
