Sequences are all around, and the human brain is trying to find sequences in any data – it is trying to find order in chaos, this is how it works. At the same time, sequences are widely used in NLP to help the brain enter the trans state. In psychology, trance is a state of mind when the person has a narrow focus of attention – this is exactly what writers are trying to get from readers, right?
The sequences used in NLP may be of different nature – sounds, words, feelings, notions, colors. By using the right sequence, you can help the brain “feel the rhythm” and get a narrow focus of attention, the trans state. In our algorithm, we used the color as the sequence carrier, the color of words in the text.
A human eye can see 7 billion colors. Apparently, we don’t have names for all of them in any language. What is important is that even though you may not realize the color differences, your unconscious mind often does. We used this fact. By using slight variations of the gray color, we managed to encode the needed sequence into the online manuals of the experimental group. Most subjects did not notice anything. Those who did, thought this was a monitor artifact, as we found out later. So, the only difference between the groups was the text color variations built into the text by our algorithm to encode a specific sequence, dependant on the text structure.