Heres something that will blow your mind, i think

[madokie]

This is interesting...you really have to try it!


MIND TRICK? (Or not)
not sure how this works but I'm in the 98%

Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal or different ?

Well, do this little mind exercise and find out at the end!

Free will or synaptic wiring?

You be the judge.

Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.

There's no trick or surprise ...

Just follow these instructions, and find out.

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If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think something else. 98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise.

Freaky, huh?

[elehhhhna]

1. I said Corn

[amitten]

107. Same here. But they both start with C, and if you think about it,

many of the most commonly found vegatables start with C. (carrots, cauliflower, corn).

[BuyingThyme]

2. Carrot.

[wtbymark]

3. is Broccoli a vegetable?

thats what I thought of LOL

[KitSileya]

69. That's what I thought of too! n/t

[aclog]

85. I had to stop and think a sec

but I was on brocoli too :shrug:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. That is too freaky, madokie.

I'm in the 98%.

[stop the bleeding]

5. I was stupid and thought of a fruit for some reason - banana - even

though I said and read vegetable to myself.

[Gormy Cuss]

88. Banana was my first thought too, same reading.

Hey, I guess that means that even among the 2 percenters, we're a bit odd.:think:

[merbex]

6. I thought of squash

does the color count?

Weird

[mrfrapp]

63. Yes

See post 62

[Sperk]

7. I was thinking potato, but then again, I'm half Irish.

n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. I guess I'm in the 2%

because I thought tomato and then that little voice in the back of my head said, tomato is a fruit not a vegetable and then it was too late to think of something else cause that was the first thing I thought of. Oh well.

[stop the bleeding]

11. LOL- look at my post at #5 - I thought of a fruit as well n/t

[patdem]

30. That is EXACTLY what I thought..and kept thinking tomato is a fruit

tomato is a fruit..and that was the only thought I could muster!

[seemslikeadream]

9. Broccoli

I was thinking broccoli

[spun_in_montana]

46. if thats your box o'broccoli

you had better be thinking broccoli!:hi:

[lonestarnot]

10. asparagus.

[spun_in_montana]

13. cucumber ! n/t

[Atmashine]

27. Mine was cucumber also

Lotsa freaks here, I say.

[uncle ray]

70. heh, i thought cucumber too.

i guess we must be in the majority of the minority?

[kitkatrose]

94. I thought cucumber then carrot.

Actually, after cucumber, I thought, Is a cucumber a fruit or a veggie, and then carrot came. And yeah, I agree with the freak assessment. :D

[leeroysphitz]

49. Me too... n/t

[sendero]

Put me right in the 98%..

.... and I'm still trying to figure out why :)

[madokie]

20. Me too, but I see a lot of folks were in the 2%. Just goes to show

[gaspee]

12. Broccoli

Am I weird? I love broccoili!

[FormerDittoHead]

14. Potato. n/t

[Frustratedlady]

15. Kale

Does that put one in a really far-out category, or what?

[FearofFutility]

16. 98% here

That is just too weird.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. Cucumber! I feel special.

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. I had my 16 yr old son do it, and he said Carrot... but it means nothing

except that he would live on raw carrots if I would let him. :)

[6th Borough]

61. Same here...are you a lefty by any chance?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

80. politically yes, physically no.

was that a trick question? ;)

[BuyingThyme]

18. Here's why I think people think of A carrot.

There's no a corn. There's no a lettuce. There's no a broccoli. There's no a alfalfa sprouts. There's no a celery. There's no a asparagus.

But everybody can quickly relate to a carrot.

[FearofFutility]

31. I think you're on to something there n/t

[RebelOne]

19. There must be something to repeating the number six

that triggers the image of a carrot when asked to name a vegetable.

[phoebe]

99. due to carrot "sticks"??????

n/t

[G_j]

21. so does six become sex

and the carrot?
:shrug:

[Nimrod2005]

24. Green peppers!!! I like being in the 2% group. Thanks.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. Thanks! Now instead of special I feel perverted!

:rofl:

Cucumbers are more satisfying? :rofl:

[G_j]

51. our veggie fetishs exposed!

OMG

:rofl:

[KarenS]

22. very weird,,,, I almost never end up in the majority,,,,,

sheesh,,,, :wtf:

[Vinnie From Indy]

26. Terry Schiavo

Sorry couldn't resist! Broccoli actually

[Solly Mack]

28. I thought spinach

[nutsnberries]

86. me too. -nt

[PDJane]

29. Odd.........

I'm with the broccoli bunch. But my wiring got scrambled by a head injury, so I don't count ....

(fortunately, it didn't impair intellectual functioning......however, I smell colours, so that's just out there).

[madokie]

44. interesting

[Mad_Dem_X]

32. Peas! :)

[hyphenate]

33. I said carrot as well

Does that mean those of us who said carrot are normal? Or are our minds simply in the gutter?

[mzteris]

34. My first thought

was Tomato = which I immediately rejected because it's a fruit, not a vegetable, then apple came to mind (because of the tomato) which I also firmly rejected - then as I was thinking a a a a a - I thought CARROT.

I think the person who said that the "A" part influences the choice may have a point!

[ChrisCat]

35. String Beans.....

wonder what that means?

[havocmom]

36. Corn, technically a grain,

but often thought of as vegetable, corn came to mind. And, no I don't eat cereal in the morning, so that's probably not the reason.

[zippy890]

37. I'm glad I'm in the carrot 98%

for some reason I find it comforting

fun & freaky - :D

[cfield]

38. Mine was corn n/t

[oasis]

39. Carrot, yes. (eom)

[hyphenate]

40. I would also say that

cucumber and asparagus, especially, are phallic symbols and could be connected through that root (no pun intended!) as well. Just think long, narrow......

Tomatoes often represent phallic symbols as well, but women mostly.

And yes, after a couple of seconds of saying "six, six, six, six...." it either starts sounding like "sex" or "sick" in which case your connotations to the subject are in the front of your mind and you will call that to mind first.

Of course, I'm guessing completely, and would love to have a real life shrink explain it to us. :)

[liberal N proud]

41. Potato

[wildwww2]

42. Another broccoli here. Hey I`m in the 98%.

And I eat carrots with ranch dip as a snack several times a week. But the first thing I thought of was how the first Bu$h disaster did not like broccoli.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[fed-up]

43. another broccoli person here...always knew I was "different" n/t

[Jacobin]

45. Dayum

Freaky.

[ChickMagic]

47. Carrot here...

I'm boring!

[pansypoo53219]

48. wrong season

if i was asked in summer, i am sure i would have thought of something else besides carrot. but in winter i mainly eat carrots.

[soup]

50. artichoke?!

where the heck did THAT come from?

:crazy: artichoke :crazy:

Guess that makes me certifiably insane.

[mzteris]

52. My son just did this

his first thought was tomato (like mine) but then thought ZUCCHINI!

(which would still fit with the "a" theory" because you can have "a zucchini"

[mnhtnbb]

53. Broccoli

Guaranteed to not be Papa Bush's answer!

[magellan]

54. Lettuce

With Green Goddess dressing. Mmmmmm.....

[marions ghost]

55. green pepper

came instantly to mind, followed by peppers of several different colors...one of them looked a little like a carrot, in that it was tapered--but it was definitely NOT a carrot.

So who's going to tally up all the responses and tell us what our DU percentage of 'difference' is? ;)

[bicentennial_baby]

56. turnip!

:bounce:

[LifeDuringWartime]

57. tomato

2% :bounce:

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

58. Eggplant???!!! Who thinks of eggplant???!

Well, I have been up all night (working)... so maybe egghead and eggplant just went together! <smile>

[DemExpat]

76. LOL....I thought of Eggplant too!

and I am not tired at all...

:D

DemEx

[ZombieNixon]

105. Dude, I did too!

How does that work?

[6th Borough]

59. Wierd...I said cucumber. I despise cucumber.

First thing that came to mind, though.:shrug:

[FormerDittoHead]

60. Pardon me, but I don't think much of this 'test'...

I'm thinking the REAL test here is to be the first to say that this is BS.

Consider this my passing the test by saying that this test is not even a good laugh...

[marions ghost]

65. oh let your

right and left brains have a little fun together for once...

[WePurrsevere]

97. :-D

Adding that one to my quips and quotes collection if you don't mind. :)

“A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men” - from Willy Wonka ;)

[marions ghost]

87. LOL sure

...let's hear it for an active corpus callosum* -- :)

(*which is bigger in females BTW)

[mrfrapp]

62. Spoiler

It's a good trick with a simple explanation...

The number exercise creates stress in the subject's mind and for some reason the mind focuses on the colour orange when in the stressful state. Carrot's are one of the few orange vegatables.

The trick also works if you ask someone to think of a colour or some other item where you can be reasonably assured that there is only one choice that is coloured orange.

[rpgamerd00d]

64. Carrot has 6 letters.

[Richard D]

66. Turnip.

Weird person here.

[u4ic]

103. I thought of turnip, too!

:hi:

[earth mom]

67. Carrot and Tomato at the same time...

I picked the Carrot. :shrug:

[pcboss49]

68. This shouldn't count

I was eating some carrots just before I took this test.... no fair...

[Contrary1]

71. I said George W. Bush...

Just kidding, I said carrot. Carrots are smarter and more interesting than Chimpie anyway.
Not to mention that I would feel a whole lot safer with a carrot running the country.

[madokie]

72. I like your sig line. It is so true.

once you feel the sting of battle you will forever cast a weary eye to conflict.

[HamdenRice]

73. I said carrot, BUT -- This is how this trick really works ...

I said carrot and was momentarily freaked out. But by posting this in a thread, madokie, and letting people respond, you have exposed how this trick actually works.

Notice that 98% of respondents on this thread did not say carrot -- it was not even close.

The carrot response so far is about 10 compared to 40 other responses. In other words in fact 98% of people do not say carrot. Given that some responses were ambiguous, I would guess that between 25% and 33% of respondents actually said carrot.

But the people who responded carrot will be freaked out by the coincidence and believe that this is freaky, weird, powerful etc. Those people, believing that the test somehow primed them to think carrot, will then propogate the trick around the internet.

But in fact, Americans eat a surprisingly small variety of vegetables regularly -- carrots, brocoli, lettuce, tomatoes (but as in this thread, a lot of people will disqualify that in their minds as a fruit).

In fact, without the 666 stuff, without any preparation whatsoever we could expect about the same proportion of people -- on this thread, no more than about 25% to 33% -- to say carrot, simply because carrot is 1 of the three or four most common vegetables that people regularly eat.

But, as I said, the 25-33% who responded carrot, will be highly motivated to pass this around the internet, bolstering the false idea that the test somehow primes you to say carrot.

[madokie]

75. Yes I posted to see what the response would be.

Hopefully no harm done.
peace:hi:

[DemExpat]

77. Hmmmm....I thought more along the lines of the word "Six"

repeating it quickly bringing up the closeness to the word "Sex"......leading to the image of the veggie "carrot".....

:silly: :P

DemEx

[applegrove]

74. I couldn't think of any vegetable. Not one?

[PhilipShore]

78. Tomato

[LaraMN]

79. I thought "green pepper."

I don't even like green peppers.

[grace0418]

81. Eggplant.

Go figure.

[baby_mouse]

82. I thought marrow. It rhymes with arrow.

Hooray for ME. My thoughts are INDEPENDENT. I can now breath a big sigh of relief and give this site and its participants a big vote of thanks.

SIIIIGH....

[WePurrsevere]

83. Parsnips - julianed, fried in butter w/ brown sugar & a bit of ginger,

Same shape but very different taste, etc. The next one that popped into my head was cabbage...

What's funny is we have a huge bag of carrots in the fridge.

Oh and my DH is "normal".. he came up with carrot.

[friesianrider]

84. Hmmm...I said corn.

I must be weird. Like I needed a test to tell me that :)

[ET Awful]

89. Carrots are the devils vegetables . . . 6 6 6 CARROT

Don't you get it man, carrots are EEEEEEVIL

[Fox Mulder]

90. I thought of carrot.

Carrot is a common veggie. I guess that's why this test assumes most people would think it. :shrug:

What's weird is that I look at the results people have posted and only about 25% of people thought of carrot. Weird, eh?

[Sequoia]

91. Green pepper, corn...corn...corn.

[RandomKoolzip]

92. I'm in the 98% ! See, I'm NOT an elitist!

[evlbstrd]

93. Nope.

Asparagus.

[Spacemom]

95. Another Broccoli

Most DUers must be in the 2%. :D

[realisticphish]

96. Though i think the numbers were pulled out of an ass

the trend is very interesting. Its significance? Don't know, but now i want to know. Damn psych major...

[LynneSin]

98. I thought of a tomato

:shrug:

Of course, that isn't a vegetable so I really suck at this I suppose

[sarge43]

100. Celery

I first thought tomato, then I remembered it's technically a fruit. :eyes:

[MiniMandaRuth]

101. Eggplant!

[ZombieNixon]

106. Rock on eggplant!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4669008&mesg_id=4670225

Actually, I hate eggplant. I don't know why I thought of it.

[Squatch]

102. I wasn't paying attention.

I was still trying to figure out what 4+2 was and then you told me I was thinking of a carrot. I'm cornfused.

[ZombieNixon]

104. I thought eggplant.

:wtf:

In retrospect, it actually makes sense, because of all the vegetables I could think of off the top of my head, eggplant has the shape most similar to the shape of the number 6.

:shrug:

Guess I'm just weird that way.