Out with a bang

[Zephyr of Darkness]

Blaze of Glory I will take you up on that supernatural experience. :P

LOL, it's not supernatural, but it tells how stupid our brain is. Here goes....

"Imagine that you're standing at your kitchen, holding a lemon you've just taken out of the fridge. It feels cold in your hand. Look at its outer looks, its yellowish skin. It has a waxy yellow color, and the skin ends up in two little green peaks. Squeeze it a bit and feel its firmness and weight.
Now take the lemon to your nose and smell it. Nothing smells like a lemon, right? Now cut the lemon in half and smell it again. The scent is more intense. Now bite it and let its juice flow into your mouth. Nothing tastes like a lemon, right?
At this point, if you have used your imagination well, your mouth must have watered.
Let's analyze the applications all this has.
Words, "simple words", affected your salival glands. The words didn't reflect a reality, but something you imagined. When you read those words about a lemon you were telling your brain that you had a lemon, though you weren't seroius. Your brain took it literally and told your salival glands:
'This guy is biting a lemon. Hurry up, wash the mouth'
The glands obeyed.
Most of us think that the words we use reflect meanings that can be good or bad, true or false, powerful or weak. This is true, but it's not all. Words don't only reflect reality, but create a reality, like the saliva flow.
The brain is not a perceptive interpreter of our intentions; it gets information and cumulates it, and since it's in charge of our body, if we tell it something like 'I'm eating a lemon now', it starts to work"
---The Silva Mind Control Method, by Jos