subliminal
(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced
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critical storyteller: your color tones cott the eye. your message was subliminal.
It’s in project 2025 under mind control, the 2025 propaganda is also created with subliminal messaging.
These are subliminal messages to cigarettes
Siri is sending me subliminal messages about my emotional and mental state via Apple Music songs LMAOOOO the bitch is frying me!! She chose the radio and everyone has shot me directly in the heart
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(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced.
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(psychology) Without directed awareness or thought; subconscious (dated), unconscious.
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(by extension) Of an advertisement, a message, etc.: conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
“critical storyteller: your color tones cott the eye. your message was subliminal.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It’s in project 2025 under mind control, the 2025 propaganda is also created with subliminal messaging.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“These are subliminal messages to cigarettes”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Siri is sending me subliminal messages about my emotional and mental state via Apple Music songs LMAOOOO the bitch is frying me!! She chose the radio and everyone has shot me directly in the heart”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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