IKEA Asks People To Bully This Plant For 30 Days To See What Happens, And Results Are Eyeopening
Bully a plant, a live experiment with two IKEA plants and with thousands of children, to help to raise awareness around Anti-Bullying Day on 4th May in the Middle East.
The live experiment involved IKEA taking two of its very own plants and installing them at the school, where one plant was fed compliments and words of encouragement, while the other was verbally bullied with hateful words. The students were encouraged to record their own voices to share their love with the first plant and give words of criticism to the second, either first hand or via social media interaction. After 30 days, the results spoke for themselves – while the complimented plant continued to thrive, the bullied plant was visibly struggling, and looking dull with droopy brown leaves.
Both plants were treated strictly the same: with the same amount water. Exposed with of sunlight, water and fertiliser. The only difference being, we said words of criticism to one plant, and words of encouragement to the other, for a span of 30 days. By the end of the experiment, the impressive results spoke for themselves.
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What would happen if you bullied a plant for 30 days straight?
IKEA decided to test it out to help raise awareness around Anti-Bullying Day on 4th May in the Middle East
They placed two of their plants in a school
Where one plant was fed compliments and words of encouragement
While the other was verbally bullied with hateful words
Both plants were treated strictly the same
They both received the same amount of water, sunlight and fertilizer
The end result speaks for itself
Watch this video to see the experiment in detail:
Here’s what people had to say about the project
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Pretty sure this is b******t and they probably just didn't water the "bullied" one properly to keep up the illusion. Plants don't hear and understand human languages - if you say something to a plant, it doesn't know if you're insulting it.
I heard a theory that they grow better when someone speaks to them, because they get bigger amount of Carbon dioxide that's being breathed out :P
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Funny. I'm going to have to tell my daughter to stop bullying her plants
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This is very likely an anomaly rather than an accurate experiment. First, there is no control (like another plant that is not being spoken to at all). Second, there are not enough of each variable for an accurate data collection. In order for this to be an accurate experiment, it needs to be able to be recreated by other people many times over. If it can be recreated again and again with the same results, then we could reasonably say this actually works. However, what you see here is anecdotal and may or may not actually work.
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This is not true of all plants. I told my cactus that he was an evil finger attacking a*****e for years, and he refused to die! He thrived on my hatred!
Better a finger-attacking a*****e than the other way around, I suppose.
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I don't care if IKEA faked the results or not. I was for a good cause. 1 in 4 children (in Australia at least) are subject to cyber bullying. I imagine that rate is higher for bullying in general ie. all forms of bullying.
Lying for a good cause is never a good idea. Ever. I have been bullied in my youth and trust me, seeing this fills me with disgust... Why? Because these are plants and it's bloody pseudo-science... You really think bullies will look at this and realize "OMG, I'm a bad person"?... Well, damn........ Btw, it's only a publicity stunt. And it worked because we are talking about it here.
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That would be a good thing, less Vegans if they couldn't eat a thing.
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the one plant looks very photosyngenicthesis, the other just wants to leaf...
I have triplets and I am doing the same experiment on them. I ignore one, yell at one, and compliment the third. All three kids are a******s... And they talk to plants. They are all F'd up...
This is weird. And it makes me hate all the people who were happy to "bully" the one plant. Doesn't matter if this is fake or not (probably yes), the point is, noone should be ok with bullying anything, living or not living. It's just an uncool behaviour. I wouldn't be comfortable being horrible even to a plant or a damn bicycle. In this experiment, I'd be coming every day to the bullied plant and I would comfort it. Am I weird? Maybe. But I'd rather be mad than ok with bullying.
I think the same and I would do the same. This is not OK. Poor being.
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I mean they took two healthy plants and didnt give one enough nutrients and claim it wilted because of bullying.
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Truthiness of the experience aside, what were the things said to bully the plant? "Give me your lunch money, worthless plant!", "You won't make the football/basketball team: You have no muscles and no skills" (duh!).
"Your eyes are so small that they don't even exist, plant! Your brain too! Even if you could hear me, you're too dumb to even understand my my razor-sharp taunts! The only thing dumber than you is someone who thinks you can hear this without anything remotely resembling ears!" oK8AHBd-5a...063f07.gif 
I've been bullying weeds most of my life. It just pisses them off and makes them grow more. On the other hand, I'm not very comfortable with adults encouraging kids to bully anything. There are more rational methods.
This, at worst, smells like badly thought out pseudo science and at best as a campaign using pseudoscience to make people aware that they should treat every living thing with respect. A worthy goal, but not one you should go for by essentially lying to people.
This is such a great idea. Go Ikea!!! Jackasses that don't believe it's true that words effect living things this is proof. As the article says, each plant was given strictly the same amount of sun, water and fertiliser.
I kinda feel bad for the bullied plant though... (I'm weird, this almost made me cry)
Except that animals eat plants and if you eat animals you are a net consumer of vastly more plants than if you just eat plants directly. Veganism is about minimising impact, not having no impact. It is not possible to live with no impact. Why do so many people think your point is one worth making?! It's non-sensical.
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Lol, anyone who believes this is dumb. You know what, mythbusters even went so gar as to disprove this completely. Sigh... Science doesnt matter to some people anymore.
I read down about thirty comments, and confirmed that what I know is true. Atheists are idiots.
It kind of makes me tear up a little when I read these comments. Overwhelming support for a pseudoscientific concept that's been thoroughly debunked for decades. So many people here do not understand what science is or how it works, but still lay claim to scientific "proof" (whatever that is) of things that can only be described as obvious fantasy. We really need to fix our education system.
Plants are unfeeling monsters and given the chance they would kill us all for our nutrient content. tumblr_npf...b8f6a7.gif 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal)#cite_note-Galston_1981-1 Screen-Sho...b0-png.jpg 
I’d like to see them reverse the plant roles for the next thirty days to see what happens 😼
Sure the message is very positive. But could we not use complete and utter non-scientific nonsense? You can't teach people and kids that plants understand and are affected by language. I hope most people understand that that does not work that way. But I'm certain that some people will look at this and think it's true.
And that's why we need double blind studies with a large enough sample size... Anecdotal "evidence" is not a proof.
See, I’d go up to the bullied plant and say “hey, it’s all good, ignore those d***s”
I call bull c**p on this. The only reason a plant would do better if you talk to it is the extra co2 you're breathing at it.
Where's the control plant? Also, Mythbusters did this a while ago.
This is BS, that isn't how any of this works, but have you thought about this if it was true and they actually believed it. That means they let a sentient being with feeling be tortured for a month in front of another sentient organism that was being treated with love. Imagine if they did this with children or even puppies people. So it is crazy anyone believes this is a real thing, but what is even crazier is the ones that do don't also realizes that if it is true it makes them monsters.
you need a much larger sample size than 2 plants to make any sort of conclusion to this "experiment".
I'm sure it has to do with the tone used. Similar experiments have been done using music- and classical showed better plant health than heavy metal. No reason to believe ikea faked the result.
Isn't this rather similar to the salt crystal experiment? The one where a bunch of jars were labelled with nuanced words like "Hitler" VS "Mother Theresa" or "Love" VS "Hate", and then they had people think of those words when holding it, resulting in beautiful crystals for positive words and jagged-looking crystals for the negative ones? I believe it should be addressing the same concept, no?
I think that experiment had rather cherry-picked results as well. I also feel like "beautiful" crystals vs harsh-looking ones is a very subjective measurement.
Load More Replies... There’s been a lot of experiments that test the energy field around plants when people say mean vs nice things to them, as well as measuring their reaction to heavy metal music versus classical. People don’t want to open their eyes to the fact that everything has some level of awareness. That would make our way of living to disgusting to beat.
If the certain types of music would really matter how much the plants will grow then the farmers would already use music as important part of the farming...
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Load of rubbish. I expect the people that believe this also believe in crystal therapy and homeopathy.
some says only outcoming "gasses" matter when talking to plant but what if plant is impacted by human scent which resembles one's feelings too (when you are afraid different hormones takes the lead from when you're happy and so on confusing, etc., etc.)
Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5 Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos playing endlessly looping recordings (as having the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive and one negative soundtrack), a fifth with classical music and a sixth with intense death metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with the recordings of speech grew better than the control, regardless of whether such talk was kind or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the recording of classical music grew better, while the plants in the greenhouse with the recording of intense death metal grew best of all. The plants didn't care whether they were complimented or insulted. They just liked sound. And they liked intense death metal the best. While few people would encourage fraud in research
The fact Ikea is willing ti lie, commit fraud and misuse children that need help to promote itself says a lot about the morals of this company
MasterMarkus, You might be less inclined to dismiss this as "b******t" if you did a modicum of research into new studies based on quantum mechanics and physics into how consciousness affects the actions of physical photons 'in reality'. I refer you to this rather lengthy discussion on scientific experiments using a 'double-slit' optical system to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/Consciousness-and-the-double-slit-interference-pattern-Six-experiments.pdf "In sum, the results of the present experiments appear to be consistent with a consciousness-related interpretation of the QMP" (quantum measurement problem) The study basically concludes that we can effect the path of photons with our minds. Certainly a person's conscious intent to bully an object/plant could be considered under these proven theories. ((Continued Below))
Furthermore, you do not take into consideration the effect of sound waves on physical objects or how sound waves/music effect plants. Remember the recent revelations of the sonic attacks on American diplomats in Cuba? Harsh words to plants is a stretch, but both prove that Intent and Sound effect objects in the material world. This is one rather easy to comprehend study of music/plants: https://dengarden.com/gardening/the-effect-of-music-on-plant-growth I could site case after case of the power of consciousness which include dowsing, remote viewing and other ways our minds can be used to gain knowledge in the material world which science fails to explain. Of course, this upends our previous belief systems on the nature of reality but if you approach these scientific experiments with an open mind, you too might not be so ready to dismiss 'far-out' topics like this one. Even Einstein recognized that our limited 5 senses are inadequate explaining the mysteries of the universe.
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They should start praising the bullied plant and help it grow. Life matters.
Great idea. So, what did you do after the experiment? Did you figure out a way to bring the bullied plant back to life? If yes, what did you do? If no, why didn't you try to bring it back?
Maybe IKEA should pay it's taxes instead of keeping the sheeple meek!
They did the same thing with rice. check out the I love you / I hate you rice experiment
Everyone is full of denial and negativity. It's called Quantum Mechanics, and it's real. Imagine what your own thoughts do to yourself and others.
Its the words that almost dried the plant, but the chemicals coming from the mouths of the people who bullied it.
There have been experiments for over 50 years, how our intereaction affects plants - this is absolute truth. If you don't believe it - don't hate on it - just try it. You WILL see. Oh oh? BTW - playing music in a garden sure doesn't effect the carbon dioxide LMSO
Both plants were talked to, so both plants got gasses (Carbon Dioxide) one was negative talking the other positive talking.
There are massive issues with their experiment. If they truly wanted to see if it was the words affecting the plants, the “bullied” plant should be treated nicely for the next 30 days and the complimented plant should be “bullied”.
Self promotion through the bullying of a plant? I will bet they sale the plant lavished with complements, and dispose of or mark down the merchandise everyone criticized.
This is all well and good, but did they save the bullied plant in the end? I sure hope they did.
Yea ikea, i think You know all about "bullying plants", since You chop off our forests from Romania for your furniture.
Water does the same thing under a microscope. Curses produce nasty black images. Positive encouragement makes surreal, white snowflake images. I'm stunned to read so many caveman style comments.
There is a 1970's book called "The Secret Life of Plants". The same and more was tried, each ending with the same results.
I watched a show on PBS years ago where a plant was monitored with a machine like an EKG. The person running the experiment proved that the plants "responded" to verbal stimuli with pulses on the readout. Obviously we don't know if they "understand" what we say to they but I'm a believer in that they know when we talk to them and I'm willing to bet they can tell the difference between good and kind words and mean and ugly words.
OK, so the science may be questionable. The point is that IKEA wanted to give people a visual idea of how bullying affects people because most people don't see the effects of their words on others in real time. Maybe a more effective approach would have been to make a presentation with charts about the correlation between bullying and suicide rates in victims of bullying.
I think somebody peed in the "bullied" plant's pot, which would explain its lack of health better.
This is interesting. I never would have guessed that such a thing is possible. I wonder if these results are one of a kind or if they are reproducible. How do we know that there is some correlation between plants and humans? This is worth further experimentation, though I can't imagine where an interested scientist would get money to do one or more studies.
These experiments were first done almost 50 years ago at the Therapeutic Touch centers and in conjunction with NASA scientists who wrote about the "energy fields" of all living things, including plants." The work of Dr. Delores Krieger , developer of Healing Touch used by nurses also wrote about this as nurses spread the use of what is "ordered" by doctors as "TT" which is therapeutic touch used for pain, healing, etc in the hospital settings. I took my first course on it at the University of Iowa School of Nursing in the late 1970's.
Some particularly dense people might read this and think it's true. Suggesting this is a legitimate scientific experiment is dangerous. The population's IQ has already dropped significantly in recent years and stuff like this doesn't help. Plants don't have the same senses as humans and how on earth would plants know the definitions and the context of the words being said to them? It's ridiculous. One plus side is, vegans might see this and decide plants have emotions too and stop eating altogether. No more vegans. Bonus.
I wrote this book with a similar project you can do at home. Words are powerful! https://www.amazon.com/Control-Your-Wor-change-world-ebook/dp/B06ZZMFK98/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493005579&sr=8-1&keywords=Lisa+Taylor+Beachler
I am not a "tree hugger" by any means but I do believe that since all plants are living things and since all living beings have emotions, why not plant life? I talk to my plants when I water them. They are all very healthy. It doesn't hurt anyone for me to be kind to them so why not? It's not like they are answering me back *L* If they did, then maybe it's time for me to reevaluate my life!
Most of you and ignorance, bless you. Save for some of you that understand, thank you . It's not the WORDS it's the frequency and tone that plants respond to. Have you ever told a dog in a positive high voice "hey you big dumb mutt you, I bet you're the dumbest around" they understand the frequency and positive energy associated not the words, thus wag their tail happily. You don't associate positive energy with bad words. The objective of the " bad words" and name calling is to send out negative frequencies of energy to make that person/ plant feel bad. Sheesh. The amount of stupidity some of you go at lengths to seem right.
Which would prove what everyone is saying that bullying doesn't affect the plant ...look how much bullying is done in sardonic comments and sarcasm...online and through gossip...if they said plants are affected by low frequencies just like humans then that's okay...but this is just stupid...if the same compliments were done in a lower frequency, it would have the same effect...if the negative comments were said sweetly, it would grow...that's still bullying
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We did this a church once with white rise, one was bullied, and the other was complemented, the one that was complemented still white and the one that was bullied turned brown, they were filled with the same amount of water. Proof
How do you know no one tampered with it when everyone was gone? Unless you stayed up nights to watch that plant there really is no good backup to that claim.
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Lots of comments on here calling b******t, but I call Masaru Emoto... there's significant research indicating that water can be physically affected by prolonged emotional stimuli, and both plants and us ourselves are rather wet beings, on the inside. The whole thing makes perfect sense to me....
Masaru Emoto is a total quack. Please don't mention him as a relevant source or respected and accepted scientist.
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This is known for years . All of you who has a strange teorie , rread the book. „ Life of plants”
there was an experiment done in japan involving water. there's an obvious difference between the ice crystals depending on what the professor said to them. for example, they said prayers in many different religions and they become really beautiful (: they also react to negative pictures like 911 etc and there's a book about it. i think it's really meaningful and enlightening.
Aw :( I hope after the experiment, someone started speaking nice to the bullied plant and it recovered :'(
This is a stupid waste of time. It is obviously directed at children while also trying to advertise IKEA. Lawsuits should follow.
Before you continue to spread stupid assumptions about this, please go and watch MythBusters' episode of exactly this matter. 60 growing plants hearing recorded sweet talks or bullying, and if they rather grow beautifully surrounded by hard rock or classic music all day long. It's quite an old experiment that would make you think. I won't spoil it for you, but is a MUST.
Have read articles about the various "states" of water and if there is anything to it then water will reflect the phases of human interaction, positively and negatively which is passed on to it's consumer. Pretty unbelievable though....
Or maybe you're not. Maybe this is just extremely complicated science XD
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My first thought was like the majority of the comments: good intention, bad science. And then I recalled THE INTENTION EXPERIMENTS. Google it if you're curious. Perhaps more pseudo-science, but maybe not. Positive thoughts *can* effect change. Regardless, the message behind the experiment is a powerful one.
Positive thoughts can affect change, but only within YOURSELF, like you can make yourself marginally happier or sadder by acting into the emotion and you can, say, ignore pain by keeping your attention on some other thing, but you can't magick the outside world with your thoughts.
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I do not really believe that. Bullying affects the psychology first and then maybe indirectly the physiology of someone. Or might it be the stronger voice frequences that do some damage? Words will definitely not play a role here. But maybe the fact if it is shouted or whispered?
well, there goes vegetarianism. How must they feel when you actually cut their heads off?
Love how brainless idiots don't do research and start hating on something. Anyone ever heard of Masaru Emoto? so you're a brainless idiot who doesn't do research at all. Ever heard of Masaru Emoto? https://youtu.be/qcZQzTKRUuI
Seriously it works ! I did it long time ago to my plants, to see the differences and it really did. The plants live too and they hear us :)
Complete nonsense. Plants lack *nervous systems*, people. It is physically impossible for them to to hear you talking to them, let alone perceive and process human emotional content. The results are either faked or IKEA just got lucky. Either way, they're dressing up superstition as a science experiment. We know exactly where this myth came from, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal)
If this were really true, with the amount of pollution (plant bullying) and hatred in the world, all plant life would be dead.
Great, now we know that plants has feelings too. Do they suffer when we cut them? What we should eat now? :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto#Scientific_criticism
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OH NO. You believed "What the bleep do we know?" did you? That's not what quantum physics is. That's what the "woo" community likes to call "quantum physics" as they like to use the term to mean "pretty much anything that we would call magic if that wouldn't stop people from taking us seriously.
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It would pretty much have to be in order to believe this stuff.
Load More Replies... Pretty sure this is b******t and they probably just didn't water the "bullied" one properly to keep up the illusion. Plants don't hear and understand human languages - if you say something to a plant, it doesn't know if you're insulting it.
I heard a theory that they grow better when someone speaks to them, because they get bigger amount of Carbon dioxide that's being breathed out :P
Load More Replies... Funny. I'm going to have to tell my daughter to stop bullying her plants
Load More Replies... This is very likely an anomaly rather than an accurate experiment. First, there is no control (like another plant that is not being spoken to at all). Second, there are not enough of each variable for an accurate data collection. In order for this to be an accurate experiment, it needs to be able to be recreated by other people many times over. If it can be recreated again and again with the same results, then we could reasonably say this actually works. However, what you see here is anecdotal and may or may not actually work.
Load More Replies... This is not true of all plants. I told my cactus that he was an evil finger attacking a*****e for years, and he refused to die! He thrived on my hatred!
Better a finger-attacking a*****e than the other way around, I suppose.
Load More Replies... I don't care if IKEA faked the results or not. I was for a good cause. 1 in 4 children (in Australia at least) are subject to cyber bullying. I imagine that rate is higher for bullying in general ie. all forms of bullying.
Lying for a good cause is never a good idea. Ever. I have been bullied in my youth and trust me, seeing this fills me with disgust... Why? Because these are plants and it's bloody pseudo-science... You really think bullies will look at this and realize "OMG, I'm a bad person"?... Well, damn........ Btw, it's only a publicity stunt. And it worked because we are talking about it here.
Load More Replies... That would be a good thing, less Vegans if they couldn't eat a thing.
Load More Replies... the one plant looks very photosyngenicthesis, the other just wants to leaf...
I have triplets and I am doing the same experiment on them. I ignore one, yell at one, and compliment the third. All three kids are a******s... And they talk to plants. They are all F'd up...
This is weird. And it makes me hate all the people who were happy to "bully" the one plant. Doesn't matter if this is fake or not (probably yes), the point is, noone should be ok with bullying anything, living or not living. It's just an uncool behaviour. I wouldn't be comfortable being horrible even to a plant or a damn bicycle. In this experiment, I'd be coming every day to the bullied plant and I would comfort it. Am I weird? Maybe. But I'd rather be mad than ok with bullying.
I think the same and I would do the same. This is not OK. Poor being.
Load More Replies... I mean they took two healthy plants and didnt give one enough nutrients and claim it wilted because of bullying.
Load More Replies... Truthiness of the experience aside, what were the things said to bully the plant? "Give me your lunch money, worthless plant!", "You won't make the football/basketball team: You have no muscles and no skills" (duh!).
"Your eyes are so small that they don't even exist, plant! Your brain too! Even if you could hear me, you're too dumb to even understand my my razor-sharp taunts! The only thing dumber than you is someone who thinks you can hear this without anything remotely resembling ears!" oK8AHBd-5a...063f07.gif
I've been bullying weeds most of my life. It just pisses them off and makes them grow more. On the other hand, I'm not very comfortable with adults encouraging kids to bully anything. There are more rational methods.
This, at worst, smells like badly thought out pseudo science and at best as a campaign using pseudoscience to make people aware that they should treat every living thing with respect. A worthy goal, but not one you should go for by essentially lying to people.
This is such a great idea. Go Ikea!!! Jackasses that don't believe it's true that words effect living things this is proof. As the article says, each plant was given strictly the same amount of sun, water and fertiliser.
I kinda feel bad for the bullied plant though... (I'm weird, this almost made me cry)
Except that animals eat plants and if you eat animals you are a net consumer of vastly more plants than if you just eat plants directly. Veganism is about minimising impact, not having no impact. It is not possible to live with no impact. Why do so many people think your point is one worth making?! It's non-sensical.
Load More Replies... Lol, anyone who believes this is dumb. You know what, mythbusters even went so gar as to disprove this completely. Sigh... Science doesnt matter to some people anymore.
I read down about thirty comments, and confirmed that what I know is true. Atheists are idiots.
It kind of makes me tear up a little when I read these comments. Overwhelming support for a pseudoscientific concept that's been thoroughly debunked for decades. So many people here do not understand what science is or how it works, but still lay claim to scientific "proof" (whatever that is) of things that can only be described as obvious fantasy. We really need to fix our education system.
Plants are unfeeling monsters and given the chance they would kill us all for our nutrient content. tumblr_npf...b8f6a7.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal)#cite_note-Galston_1981-1 Screen-Sho...b0-png.jpg
I’d like to see them reverse the plant roles for the next thirty days to see what happens 😼
Sure the message is very positive. But could we not use complete and utter non-scientific nonsense? You can't teach people and kids that plants understand and are affected by language. I hope most people understand that that does not work that way. But I'm certain that some people will look at this and think it's true.
And that's why we need double blind studies with a large enough sample size... Anecdotal "evidence" is not a proof.
See, I’d go up to the bullied plant and say “hey, it’s all good, ignore those d***s”
I call bull c**p on this. The only reason a plant would do better if you talk to it is the extra co2 you're breathing at it.
Where's the control plant? Also, Mythbusters did this a while ago.
This is BS, that isn't how any of this works, but have you thought about this if it was true and they actually believed it. That means they let a sentient being with feeling be tortured for a month in front of another sentient organism that was being treated with love. Imagine if they did this with children or even puppies people. So it is crazy anyone believes this is a real thing, but what is even crazier is the ones that do don't also realizes that if it is true it makes them monsters.
you need a much larger sample size than 2 plants to make any sort of conclusion to this "experiment".
I'm sure it has to do with the tone used. Similar experiments have been done using music- and classical showed better plant health than heavy metal. No reason to believe ikea faked the result.
Isn't this rather similar to the salt crystal experiment? The one where a bunch of jars were labelled with nuanced words like "Hitler" VS "Mother Theresa" or "Love" VS "Hate", and then they had people think of those words when holding it, resulting in beautiful crystals for positive words and jagged-looking crystals for the negative ones? I believe it should be addressing the same concept, no?
I think that experiment had rather cherry-picked results as well. I also feel like "beautiful" crystals vs harsh-looking ones is a very subjective measurement.
Load More Replies... There’s been a lot of experiments that test the energy field around plants when people say mean vs nice things to them, as well as measuring their reaction to heavy metal music versus classical. People don’t want to open their eyes to the fact that everything has some level of awareness. That would make our way of living to disgusting to beat.
If the certain types of music would really matter how much the plants will grow then the farmers would already use music as important part of the farming...
Load More Replies... Load of rubbish. I expect the people that believe this also believe in crystal therapy and homeopathy.
some says only outcoming "gasses" matter when talking to plant but what if plant is impacted by human scent which resembles one's feelings too (when you are afraid different hormones takes the lead from when you're happy and so on confusing, etc., etc.)
Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5 Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos playing endlessly looping recordings (as having the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive and one negative soundtrack), a fifth with classical music and a sixth with intense death metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with the recordings of speech grew better than the control, regardless of whether such talk was kind or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the recording of classical music grew better, while the plants in the greenhouse with the recording of intense death metal grew best of all. The plants didn't care whether they were complimented or insulted. They just liked sound. And they liked intense death metal the best. While few people would encourage fraud in research
The fact Ikea is willing ti lie, commit fraud and misuse children that need help to promote itself says a lot about the morals of this company
MasterMarkus, You might be less inclined to dismiss this as "b******t" if you did a modicum of research into new studies based on quantum mechanics and physics into how consciousness affects the actions of physical photons 'in reality'. I refer you to this rather lengthy discussion on scientific experiments using a 'double-slit' optical system to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/Consciousness-and-the-double-slit-interference-pattern-Six-experiments.pdf "In sum, the results of the present experiments appear to be consistent with a consciousness-related interpretation of the QMP" (quantum measurement problem) The study basically concludes that we can effect the path of photons with our minds. Certainly a person's conscious intent to bully an object/plant could be considered under these proven theories. ((Continued Below))
Furthermore, you do not take into consideration the effect of sound waves on physical objects or how sound waves/music effect plants. Remember the recent revelations of the sonic attacks on American diplomats in Cuba? Harsh words to plants is a stretch, but both prove that Intent and Sound effect objects in the material world. This is one rather easy to comprehend study of music/plants: https://dengarden.com/gardening/the-effect-of-music-on-plant-growth I could site case after case of the power of consciousness which include dowsing, remote viewing and other ways our minds can be used to gain knowledge in the material world which science fails to explain. Of course, this upends our previous belief systems on the nature of reality but if you approach these scientific experiments with an open mind, you too might not be so ready to dismiss 'far-out' topics like this one. Even Einstein recognized that our limited 5 senses are inadequate explaining the mysteries of the universe.
Load More Replies... They should start praising the bullied plant and help it grow. Life matters.
Great idea. So, what did you do after the experiment? Did you figure out a way to bring the bullied plant back to life? If yes, what did you do? If no, why didn't you try to bring it back?
Maybe IKEA should pay it's taxes instead of keeping the sheeple meek!
They did the same thing with rice. check out the I love you / I hate you rice experiment
Everyone is full of denial and negativity. It's called Quantum Mechanics, and it's real. Imagine what your own thoughts do to yourself and others.
Its the words that almost dried the plant, but the chemicals coming from the mouths of the people who bullied it.
There have been experiments for over 50 years, how our intereaction affects plants - this is absolute truth. If you don't believe it - don't hate on it - just try it. You WILL see. Oh oh? BTW - playing music in a garden sure doesn't effect the carbon dioxide LMSO
Both plants were talked to, so both plants got gasses (Carbon Dioxide) one was negative talking the other positive talking.
There are massive issues with their experiment. If they truly wanted to see if it was the words affecting the plants, the “bullied” plant should be treated nicely for the next 30 days and the complimented plant should be “bullied”.
Self promotion through the bullying of a plant? I will bet they sale the plant lavished with complements, and dispose of or mark down the merchandise everyone criticized.
This is all well and good, but did they save the bullied plant in the end? I sure hope they did.
Yea ikea, i think You know all about "bullying plants", since You chop off our forests from Romania for your furniture.
Water does the same thing under a microscope. Curses produce nasty black images. Positive encouragement makes surreal, white snowflake images. I'm stunned to read so many caveman style comments.
There is a 1970's book called "The Secret Life of Plants". The same and more was tried, each ending with the same results.
I watched a show on PBS years ago where a plant was monitored with a machine like an EKG. The person running the experiment proved that the plants "responded" to verbal stimuli with pulses on the readout. Obviously we don't know if they "understand" what we say to they but I'm a believer in that they know when we talk to them and I'm willing to bet they can tell the difference between good and kind words and mean and ugly words.
OK, so the science may be questionable. The point is that IKEA wanted to give people a visual idea of how bullying affects people because most people don't see the effects of their words on others in real time. Maybe a more effective approach would have been to make a presentation with charts about the correlation between bullying and suicide rates in victims of bullying.
I think somebody peed in the "bullied" plant's pot, which would explain its lack of health better.
This is interesting. I never would have guessed that such a thing is possible. I wonder if these results are one of a kind or if they are reproducible. How do we know that there is some correlation between plants and humans? This is worth further experimentation, though I can't imagine where an interested scientist would get money to do one or more studies.
These experiments were first done almost 50 years ago at the Therapeutic Touch centers and in conjunction with NASA scientists who wrote about the "energy fields" of all living things, including plants." The work of Dr. Delores Krieger , developer of Healing Touch used by nurses also wrote about this as nurses spread the use of what is "ordered" by doctors as "TT" which is therapeutic touch used for pain, healing, etc in the hospital settings. I took my first course on it at the University of Iowa School of Nursing in the late 1970's.
Some particularly dense people might read this and think it's true. Suggesting this is a legitimate scientific experiment is dangerous. The population's IQ has already dropped significantly in recent years and stuff like this doesn't help. Plants don't have the same senses as humans and how on earth would plants know the definitions and the context of the words being said to them? It's ridiculous. One plus side is, vegans might see this and decide plants have emotions too and stop eating altogether. No more vegans. Bonus.
I wrote this book with a similar project you can do at home. Words are powerful! https://www.amazon.com/Control-Your-Wor-change-world-ebook/dp/B06ZZMFK98/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493005579&sr=8-1&keywords=Lisa+Taylor+Beachler
I am not a "tree hugger" by any means but I do believe that since all plants are living things and since all living beings have emotions, why not plant life? I talk to my plants when I water them. They are all very healthy. It doesn't hurt anyone for me to be kind to them so why not? It's not like they are answering me back *L* If they did, then maybe it's time for me to reevaluate my life!
Most of you and ignorance, bless you. Save for some of you that understand, thank you . It's not the WORDS it's the frequency and tone that plants respond to. Have you ever told a dog in a positive high voice "hey you big dumb mutt you, I bet you're the dumbest around" they understand the frequency and positive energy associated not the words, thus wag their tail happily. You don't associate positive energy with bad words. The objective of the " bad words" and name calling is to send out negative frequencies of energy to make that person/ plant feel bad. Sheesh. The amount of stupidity some of you go at lengths to seem right.
Which would prove what everyone is saying that bullying doesn't affect the plant ...look how much bullying is done in sardonic comments and sarcasm...online and through gossip...if they said plants are affected by low frequencies just like humans then that's okay...but this is just stupid...if the same compliments were done in a lower frequency, it would have the same effect...if the negative comments were said sweetly, it would grow...that's still bullying
Load More Replies... We did this a church once with white rise, one was bullied, and the other was complemented, the one that was complemented still white and the one that was bullied turned brown, they were filled with the same amount of water. Proof
How do you know no one tampered with it when everyone was gone? Unless you stayed up nights to watch that plant there really is no good backup to that claim.
Load More Replies... Lots of comments on here calling b******t, but I call Masaru Emoto... there's significant research indicating that water can be physically affected by prolonged emotional stimuli, and both plants and us ourselves are rather wet beings, on the inside. The whole thing makes perfect sense to me....
Masaru Emoto is a total quack. Please don't mention him as a relevant source or respected and accepted scientist.
Load More Replies... This is known for years . All of you who has a strange teorie , rread the book. „ Life of plants”
there was an experiment done in japan involving water. there's an obvious difference between the ice crystals depending on what the professor said to them. for example, they said prayers in many different religions and they become really beautiful (: they also react to negative pictures like 911 etc and there's a book about it. i think it's really meaningful and enlightening.
Aw :( I hope after the experiment, someone started speaking nice to the bullied plant and it recovered :'(
This is a stupid waste of time. It is obviously directed at children while also trying to advertise IKEA. Lawsuits should follow.
Before you continue to spread stupid assumptions about this, please go and watch MythBusters' episode of exactly this matter. 60 growing plants hearing recorded sweet talks or bullying, and if they rather grow beautifully surrounded by hard rock or classic music all day long. It's quite an old experiment that would make you think. I won't spoil it for you, but is a MUST.
Have read articles about the various "states" of water and if there is anything to it then water will reflect the phases of human interaction, positively and negatively which is passed on to it's consumer. Pretty unbelievable though....
Or maybe you're not. Maybe this is just extremely complicated science XD
Load More Replies... My first thought was like the majority of the comments: good intention, bad science. And then I recalled THE INTENTION EXPERIMENTS. Google it if you're curious. Perhaps more pseudo-science, but maybe not. Positive thoughts *can* effect change. Regardless, the message behind the experiment is a powerful one.
Positive thoughts can affect change, but only within YOURSELF, like you can make yourself marginally happier or sadder by acting into the emotion and you can, say, ignore pain by keeping your attention on some other thing, but you can't magick the outside world with your thoughts.
Load More Replies... I do not really believe that. Bullying affects the psychology first and then maybe indirectly the physiology of someone. Or might it be the stronger voice frequences that do some damage? Words will definitely not play a role here. But maybe the fact if it is shouted or whispered?
well, there goes vegetarianism. How must they feel when you actually cut their heads off?
Love how brainless idiots don't do research and start hating on something. Anyone ever heard of Masaru Emoto? so you're a brainless idiot who doesn't do research at all. Ever heard of Masaru Emoto? https://youtu.be/qcZQzTKRUuI
Seriously it works ! I did it long time ago to my plants, to see the differences and it really did. The plants live too and they hear us :)
Complete nonsense. Plants lack *nervous systems*, people. It is physically impossible for them to to hear you talking to them, let alone perceive and process human emotional content. The results are either faked or IKEA just got lucky. Either way, they're dressing up superstition as a science experiment. We know exactly where this myth came from, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal)
If this were really true, with the amount of pollution (plant bullying) and hatred in the world, all plant life would be dead.
Great, now we know that plants has feelings too. Do they suffer when we cut them? What we should eat now? :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto#Scientific_criticism
Load More Replies... OH NO. You believed "What the bleep do we know?" did you? That's not what quantum physics is. That's what the "woo" community likes to call "quantum physics" as they like to use the term to mean "pretty much anything that we would call magic if that wouldn't stop people from taking us seriously.
Load More Replies... It would pretty much have to be in order to believe this stuff.
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