Okay, so I heard a story today about Hitler and the power of the human mind. Hitler and his regime conducted a test that measure the power of the mind by using the threat of death. He got 10 people in a room. They were told that they will all die from snake poison. The first person was bitten by a snake and died an hour later. The first five people got the same treatment. The last five were blindfolded and were told that they will die from the snake bite next. However, instead of the snake biting them they were poked by two nails or something. So, they died thinking that they were poisoned and will follow the same fate as the first five. An intersting story that shows that the human mind is very powerful and can control our biological functions. Has anyone heard this story?
2006-09-15 18:03:15 · 7 answers · asked by RoRo 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
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Nazi's performed a bunch of mind control experiments.
Ask yourself what it is you know about the Manchurian candidate.
Sociological experiments are similar in cases to psychological experiments.
The Stanford Prison study is good example.
Power of suggestion? Fear based anxiety, and unconscious control of involuntary muscles leading to constriction of blood to specific nerves and endocrine systems.... It's possible, but highly uunlikely.
I would love to know about any of the research you do manage to find.
More digging reveals that there is "fear induced" death of some patients. The most critical was seizures and heart failure. My hypothesis is that what you will find from the nazi experiment is that the patients died from heart failure. The extremities that the torture before hand to stimulate the critically negative thoughts required for possible death had already induced the patients with heightened survival mechanisms. When the pseudopoison was introduced through the pricks the patients bodies began to work overtime to eliminate the poison from their systems. Heart failure was the cause of death because of the percieved need for higher bblood flow.
2006-09-16 12:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That whole story sounds a little far fetched, if for no other reason than it claims all 5 ot the remaining people keeled over from the power of suggestion. That's 100% of the subjects which almost unheard of. Otherwise, I've been studying WWII and Nazi Germany for years, and I've never heard anything like this. It would more have been something Himmler might have tried, but he was into the occult rather than powers of the mind. In the concentration camps, doctors performed numerous experiments, but those were of a practical, if brutal, nature to improve methods to treat battle wounds, cope with extreme temperatures, and decompression effects on pilots. I'm not saying that what you talking about didn't happen, I certainly don't know for sure, there's just something about it that doesn't ring true.
2006-09-15 18:21:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did you ask the question since you knew the answer? Then ask another question after the whole horrible story? I do not understand your logics here. Hitler himself did not conduct any test of that kind. He was too busy conducting other crimes. I heard of other tests being conducted by Nazis, and I heard ot tests conducted by so called non-nazi people which really look alike in the principle.
2006-09-15 18:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by marysylvie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably died of fear. It happens.
There was a story about a haunted graveyard. Two men were dicussing about it, and one said that he was brave enough to go there. The other one said ok, and told him he'd have to drive a nail into some stone in the center of the graveyard. He agreed and at night he wore a cloak and went to the graveyard, hammered the nail in, and as he was leaving he felt his cloak being pulled off, and he died of fright. Next morning they found his body and saw that he had nailed his cloak in...:-p
2006-09-15 18:13:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't put it past him, he conducted a ton of torturuous tests and this sounds right up his alley.
2006-09-15 18:07:59 · answer #5 · answered by Amy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I doubt it cuz he didn't have much of a mind himself. He was practically retarded as a kid, which is why he hated the world.
2006-09-15 18:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wonder if I focus hard enough if I can turn myself into a monkey....but anyways, kool story. sick...but kool.
2006-09-15 18:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋