Comment on How often do you attempt to use preternatural abilities on the world around you?
vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Myself never, but there probably … millions? tens of millions? of tiktok brained Americans that believe in ‘manifesting’, so being irrationally delusional is pretty trendy right now I guess.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Manifesting is a thing, though. It’s not magic, but it is a way to trigger the placebo effect which is an observed phenomenon.
I can’t manifest a jet, but I can manifest a new car. Just by believing I’m going to get one somehow, my brain is going to start doing a lot of subconscious things that are going to add up to getting one. You can manifest a promotion and you will start to work a little harder or more efficiently, maybe add new skills.
Why not just -do- these things? If you can, great! But if not, your subconscious is capable of things your conscious may not be… You could be in a cycle of self sabotage that manifestation can sidestep, for instance.
It’s an incredibly powerful tool that people disregard as woowoo because even the people selling it don’t know how it works.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did some TikTok dipshit just rename positive thinking? 😂