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US PATENT: Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors

pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Poking at some of the references there, found this:

At present, two major sensory resonances are known, with frequencies near 1/2 Hz and 2.4 Hz. The 1/2 Hz sensory resonance causes relaxation, sleepiness, ptosis of the eyelids, a tonic smile, a "knot" in the stomach, or sexual excitement, depending on the precise frequency used. The 2.4 Hz resonance causes the slowing of certain cortical activities, and is characterized by a large increase of the time needed to silently count backward from 100 to 60, with the eyes closed

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-6091994-A#section...

Theres also another that discusses applications for Law enforcement

Google Patents link:https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en

Well that’s concerning.

Big Brother manipulation potential aside…

We all sat directly in front of CRT monitors and TVs for years. What effect might this have had, at random, on our nervous systems then?

Would this still work with laptops and tablets?

Seems you need a decently strong magnet to cause anything, from poking around at the various references from the link.

dude I have zero idea this is one of the weirdest things I've come across on the internet ever, and i've spent an unfortunate percentage of my life on the internet.

cannot find more info on this

So the tin foil hat people really were on to something

The smart ones know what tinfoil actually does.

It holds my 7 layer burrito

This would cover all screens? Since light is electromagnetic fields and triggering eye nerves is nervous system manipulation?

You don’t have to prove anything for a patent.

ty.

I expected something funny about making people angry with articles about heated but ultimately not that important issues. Like, you know, what is currently happening in much of the internet. It's really effective!

Having control over google results, youtube suggestions, tiktok, facebook, instagram, news stories, making up crisis, overblown stories and outrages... Seems much more effective ways to manipulate wide groups of people, and easier to control

The world is going to end 2000, and every couple of years since... the economic crisis is coming every other year, stop the war, Koni 2012, we all Charlie hebdo, terroists everywhere, QAnon, pandemics everyone is going to die, planes suddenly are not good, stop the invasion, stop the genocide, alien invasions anytime now, stop the illegal aliens, are you Republican or a Democrat?

People are so busy and impressionable, that their state of being is easily manipulated, there is no need for a 5G CRT

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