Dr. Mercola February 08 2007 38,934 views
You are only allowed to watch this video once. Seriously, do not cheat!In the video you will see a group of basketball players, some in white and some in black passing two balls around. Your goal is to count how many times the ball is passed by those wearing white shirts. It‘s that simple. Remember, count just the passes of the ball by those wearing white. Once the movie is over, write down the number of passes you have counted.Do not watch the video again. VIDEO LINKAfter you have watched the video go to this page to understand your results.VIEW RESULTS
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Did you see the gorilla?
The reason that nearly every one doesn't see it is because their attention, their focus, is on the balls as the instructions have told them. They are completely distracted and as such they can't see something as obvious as a gorilla.
This really is a mind-boggling and powerful experiment.
It is the same with your daily life. The media and major corporations are constantly having you place your focus on this or that -- all five sense activities -- and so you miss the 'gorilla' and you are able to be controlled, deceived and manipulated because you are being distracted.
This is one reason that you belong to one of the most conditioned, programmed cultures the world has ever known. Your perceptions are carefully and precisely regulated -- and not for your best interests.
In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually contrived: somebody paid for it.
Examples:
This is a list of illusions that have cost billions and billions along with untold amounts of human pain and suffering to conjure up. It is the mission of this site to help expose the fraud and deception so you can see the gorilla the next time he pops his ugly mug.
Then you will be able to point him out to your friends and neighbors and we will be well on our way toward providing a path for most to choose to be independently healthy, free of the tyranny of massive corporate interests that pervert the "health" care system.
Some may call me foolish, but I sincerely believe that if you and I focus our intention on uncovering this deception we can change the world with respect to true health.
On Vital Votes, reader George from Larbert in the United Kingdom says:
"Both my wife and I are Mensa standard but didn't see a thing! Our 17 year old daughter saw it first time ? but as 'a man with a funny hat'."
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....This is almost certainly, the most important lesson on your whole site.....
We' re all being manipulated,deceived, and controlled.
Health, financial, life-style choices, fashion, .......ALL about getting the money out of our pockets and keeping us from thinking too much!!
It just goes to prove that:
"If you keep your eye on the ball.....you miss the game!"....of life.
A great lesson to us all to keep a truly open, enquiring, disbelieving mind and not to become too focused on any one aspect of anything.
As I was counting, I saw more and more people come in with black shirts on:) I haven't seen the video a second time, but I guess to me, there were more black-shirted people than there really was.
HAHAHA! I just watched it again, and there were still only 3black shirted people and one black gorilla:)
he he he. To me, there were millions (okay, exagerating) of black-shirted people:)
I saw the gorilla, no problem. Maybe that's because I"m ADHD and I always pay attention to everything unless I'm hyperfocusing on something (in which case WWIII would start right next to me and I wouldn't notice!). That's one reason I like Dr. Mercola so much. He's one of the few non-mainstream doctors I know of that actually believes ADHD is real! :) However, I do think he should accept that some of us really do get much needed help from Ritalin. Nothing else I've tried has worked nearly as well.
:-) got me! i was annoyed at the blur..
.but was too busy counting,
when i replayed it i was amazed at how very obvious it was. good lesson!