Masks

The people I know with answers won't give them when asked.  So I have a few Questions.

   Anytime we're involved in an activity without our full attention we're open to distractions.  It could be a neighbor yelling across the hall.  It could be a wind chime swinging outside a window.

   It could be subliminal signals from an advertisement. Visual ones in a magazine. Audible ones from a TV show.  Whatever the source it's always the same intent:

   To avoid your conscious attention and reach your unconscious.

   One of the most effective ways to do this is with masking.  As complicated as that sounds it's fairly simple to do.  It works with both visual and audible sources though sound is the one i'm most concerned about.

   To mask sound it needs to be hidden in another sound.  You could also say it's beneath another sound and that would be the mask.

Pretty cool link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking

   Let's say you have a water feature in your home. After listening for awhile you start tuning it out and push it to the back of your mind.  Once that happens it becomes your unconscious mind's problem.

   Not everyone has a water feature.  But almost everyone listens to music.  The problem with music is you don't push it to the back of your mind until the song's old.  But while a song is new you actively listen to it.

   Guess what?

   That new song is perfect to use as a mask for something else.

   So is a person's voice talking (Morgan Freeman's would be deadly)

   Or even 2 voices talking to one another.

   How do you create a song, voice, or voices that could be a custom mask for the real audio you want a person to "hear"?

   Get them to create it in their own mind like:

• Replaying a memory
• Thinking about what their day is going to be like
• Someone else narrating/observing them
• Imagining pretty much anything

   You might be surprised to know those same things constitute what's known as schizophrenia. 

   And of course, schizophrenia is just another distraction.