Brainwashing refers to instilling wrong understanding and ideas that are in line with one's own interests into others through various means. The human brain works and changes in the constant stimulation of the outside world. We can't see these changes, but we feel that the external environment and the development of the brain are synchronized, so people can't be brainwashed without the synchronous changes in their environment.

Come on, wash your head.

Come on, wash your head.

Second, the five major means of brainwashing

1, let people be in a high emotional state, let physiology control psychology, and let emotions overcome reason. When people are in an excessive emotional state, they cannot think rationally. People who brainwash know this well, so they will create some activities to keep the baptized people in a sustained high-pitched mood, such as singing, reciting, shouting slogans and so on.

2. Only provide a single information source and information channel, and shield other information sources and channels. When people are in a single information environment for a long time, they gradually lose the ability of critical thinking and can only passively accept this information. Because people are naturally hungry for information, just like food and water, when faced with the choice of accepting a single information or not accepting any information, people can only choose the former.

3. Strengthen your faith through practice. The brainwasher will let the baptized practice their thoughts, and these exercises can also play a great role in internal identification. Even if some people don't accept it at first, if they do something according to the regulations for a long time, their attitude will eventually change. Psychology determines behavior and behavior determines psychology.

4. Create group pressure, especially exert influence on people around you and peers. Brainwashed people are good at creating a public opinion environment so that everyone in the environment can say the same thing and do the same thing. Because people are naturally group animals, most people can't resist this pressure and can only choose to integrate into this group, say the same things and do the same things.

5. Ritualization. People who are brainwashed will create some rituals, which can concretize and materialize some abstract ideas, make people form totem worship, and the solemnity of rituals will also bring obedience pressure to those who are baptized.

The ritual of brainwashing

The ritual of brainwashing

Third, permanent memory deletion will become a reality in the future.

According to foreign media reports, in the sci-fi movie "Paycheck", people in the future can selectively delete memories in their brains like deleting computer data, and this step does not seem far away.

Research shows that long-term memory is not as hard to erase as imagined. In the past, scientists said that when short-term memory matures, it becomes long-term memory and memory will stabilize.

However, Yadin Dudai, the head of this study and a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said: "Our findings are a challenge to this view. Injecting a drug into the brain area where memories are stored can erase the memory of mice. We can erase the long-term memory of mice in this way. "

Now that the mouse experiment is successful, can this drug also erase the memory of the human brain? Recently, researchers have made some important progress, which makes us boldly guess that memories in the brain can even be divided into small pieces and then freely added, deleted or edited. It still sounds like science fiction, but researchers believe that one day there will be a very effective drug to erase memories.

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Brainwashing and brainwashing are common, with various forms and means. However, as long as we are alert to the five means of brainwashing and try our best not to brainwash ourselves, we can effectively prevent ourselves from being brainwashed.