I was preparing to go to sleep.
I had turned off everything, and the only light coming in was that of the street lamp.
I was lying in bed, had kept my phone aside and had closed my eyes.
When I was about to sleep…
There was a dark silhouette at the door.
The door looked darker than usual and it was like there was a small piece of the door that was denser than the rest of the room.
It was not moving. But it looked at me, I thought.
Suddenly, my heart was pounding heavily.
I had sweaty palms.
My throat was constricted.
I was slowly dragging myself up from my lying position.
Just then… The second shadow was seen adjoining the first one.
One after another, the subsequent shadows were seen alongside the first one.
The shadows kept increasing inside the room.
In the room there were shadows on the walls, on the ceiling, and by the side of the bed…
That is how they seemed to be coming out of the dark one after another, taking their places and looking at me in silence.
My breathing was getting quicker.
There was a tightness in my chest.
I was short of breath.
Could this possibly be the case that my friend had explained to me?
“Like a tribe of jinn…”
Hold on here.
While reading these sentences,
did you experience even a bit of “my hairs stood on end” feeling?
Did you look around your room for a moment with the corner of your eye?
Did a little play of shadows come up in your mind?
That was the moment when unknowingly you actually came in contact with what I call the necobo effect.
(From a scientific point of view, this is the nocebo effect. I purposely refer to it as necobo, because fear drags the mind exactly toward “the most absurd possibility” it can find.)
So what is this effect, really?
And in what way can a simple story that talks about nothing make us feel as if those things were really here?
Now let’s talk about the scientific side of the story. And then science to the mind frequency.
What is the Nocebo (Necobo) Effect?
Placebo is something almost everyone has heard of:
You are positive about something good, and your body feels better.
The nocebo is its bad twin.
In a very simple manner:
Placebo = Belief that it will be good / you feel better.
Nocebo = Belief that it will be bad / you feel worse.
For example:
* You thoroughly read the instruction manual of a medicine,
* It says: “May cause dizziness, palpitations, nausea,”
* Then you take the medicine and… Those symptoms come upon you.
Perhaps the medicine is causing those effects.
But most of the times, the mind converts the expectation into bodily changes.
Stories of Jinn and ghosts, and the phrase “I told you, now it will happen to you too”
are all operated by the same system just on the fear level.
How Does a Fiction Trigger Fear in Our Brain?
First, let’s analyze your instance one by one:
“Look, it’s dangerous and it can definitely come to you too, even if you are not convinced, just be careful…”
If we translate this phrase to the mind language, it will be like: “This can actually be true and it can happen to me as well.”
Now, the mechanism looks like this:
Suggestion (story)
*You are being told a very convincing story of “jinn/spirits/ghosts.”
* The voice, the facial features and even the breathing of the person telling the story, the whole thing is real.
Recording (the brain filming)
*The mind is not recording the story just as information, it records it as a visual images.
* The visuals you will later see in your mind at night have already been placed in the background.
Label (threatening sentence)
*“I told you, now it can be your turn.”
*This sentence puts a program into the mind: “If this happens to me, I should not be surprised.”
Expectation (energy flow)
*From that moment on, when you are in the dark,your brain is working on this frequency: “It might be there.”
*Therefore, darkness which was quite neutral, is no longer neutral, it becomes potential danger.
Distorted perception (interpreting the normal paranormally)
*The shadow falling on the curtain,
*A piece of clothing hanging on the wardrobe,
* An ordinary sound coming from the corridor…All of these are starting to be interpreted with the costume of that story: “It seems like somebody is there.”“They are watching me.”
Nocebo loop
*Fear / increased heart rate / shortness of breath / trembling…
*The body responds as if there is real danger.
*And you say: “See, I told you… It came to me.”
Whereas most of the time, what is coming to you is not a jinn…It is your own mind’s reaction to its own fear. This whole thing working together is what I call “the necobo effect”: Nocebo that is fed by fear.
Fear Changing Costume According to Culture
One very important thing is:
Though the mechanism is identical in every one of us, the “being” that appears on stage varies depending on the culture.
In Turkey / The Middle East:
Jinn, devil, spells, possession, evil eye.
Feeling of suffocation at night / “They sat on my chest.”
Jinn, devil, spells, possession, evil eye.
Feeling of suffocation at night / “They sat on my chest.”
In the West (Christian culture):
Demons, possession, Hell’s images.
“The devil is whispering to me, God is punishing me.”
Demons, possession, Hell’s images.
“The devil is whispering to me, God is punishing me.”
In East Asia (China / Japan / Korea):
Ancestors’ spirits, ghosts (yūrei), vengeful spirits.
“The spirits of my family are not pleased with me, that’s why they come at night.”
Ancestors’ spirits, ghosts (yūrei), vengeful spirits.
“The spirits of my family are not pleased with me, that’s why they come at night.”
In modern, secular city minds:
Alien abductions, microchips, stories of being watched by the state.
Alien abductions, microchips, stories of being watched by the state.
The most common sentence among all is that one:
“There is an invisible power outside of me that is watching / controlling me.”
The name is changing: Jinn, demon, ghost, alien, spirit, spell…However, the mechanism remains the same: *First of all culture gives you the word, Then fear opens the frequency, *Nocebo produces images from that frequency.
In short:
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In brief:
Fear is what makes the brain start to run the movie.
Society influences the choice of the movie to be shown.
Nocebo effect is the brain function which in a healthy brain under the influence of fear and expectation changes the perception of the surroundings.
The Frequency of the Mind: What You Sow, You Reap at Night
Let’s now look at the frequency side of the matter.
The mind of a person, particularly at night, is:
* Quite often,
* Without any illumination,
* If one is tired…
Works as a very special kind of receiving instrument.
Whatever seed it was given, it started to bring forth.
* If you incessantly listen to stories about jinn / spells / possessions,
* If you incessantly watch horror movies,
* If you incessantly hear such sentences as “See, I warned you; now it will come to you too”
your brain gets programed to this:
“Darkness = not friend, but enemy.”
And every shadow, every tiny sound
becomes the projection of the fear that is inside of you.
This is why I say:
Fear opens a channel of energy in the brain.
Whatever you put in that channel, that is what you will see in the dark.
The Truth Behind “I Told You, and Then It Came to You Too”
There is a very popular love sentence in culture:
“See, I told you… It came to you as well.”
What actually takes place most of the time is this:
* Just I told you the story,
* I infused the images into your mind,
* By that phrase, I was also the one who switched the expectation frequency:
“This can happen to you as well.”
* With that frequency you were looking into the dark.
Most of the time jinn is not what shows up;
it is the sound of fear itself.
It is not that:
“There is nothing, it is all lies.”
It is rather like this:
“The mind can be strong enough to make fear feel like it is real.”
Moreover, when this force is harnessed properly, it need not always invoke the feeling of fear.
Horror Stories or Mental Hygiene?
If you were reading this article, maybe your hairs slightly stood on end,
maybe you gave a small smile, maybe you thought “I have been through such moments too.”
The decision of what to do next is wholly in your hands:
* You may decide to continuously provide your mind with horror tales,
and with such sentences as “be careful, it will be coming to you too,”
* Or you may start being more aware of what you are planting and where you are planting it.
Because:
Placebo is the mind’s way of healing.
Nocebo (equally known as necobo) is the situation of fear that foretells its own fulfillment.
The concepts of jinn, ghosts, spirits, and demons exist in every culture.
However the one that is still holding the remote control always points back to the same place:
The perception of the mind.
And the most important question that comes at night, in the dark is:
“What am I really seeing?”…
“And how much of what I see is actually the form of my own fear?”