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A couple of days ago, I received a text message from a friend of mine. In that text he had told me that cold is mental and along with that he tells me a story. There was a guy who walked into a walk in freezer. To that poor guy's surprise, the door mysteriously shut closed and didn't open.

The guy, not knowing the freezer was broken (not working or something), began writing letters to family members and friends. Those messages quickly came to an end with the phrase "I cannot write anymore as my fingers are starting to freeze." (Not word for word...)

The following day, workers arrived at the scene only to discover a dead body in a freezer. It was proven that the freezer wasn't working or it was shut off and the temperature never dropped below 50 degrees. The guy pretty much imagined him dying and apparently, it came to be a reality.

Now, something that has caught my attention is, if cold is mental, what else is? I guarantee that 90% of people reading this is no idiot and knows that your brain tells you what to do, what to think about, and it also sends your body emotions. Since that guy thought that he was at a point in which his bones were starting to freeze, why can't anything else be mental? I mean, pain could be mental, the warm temperature could be mental, and etc.

If pain is mental, you could do almost anything that is not fatal and feel no pain. The only reason we feel pain is because we have been taught that pain is real and exists. We do not bite off our fingers because our brain tells us not to. If we could somehow make the brain think the opposite, we would be able to feel no pain.

What do you guys think?

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You can train to deal with certain situations. Military people train to think Cold is heat and heat is cold, not as black and white as that, but it gets them through the Artic/dessert missions by them imagining they are in the opposite. You can train to deal with pain, such as the Spetsnaz (I think). A lot of things can be thought, like if you think you're ill, you feel worse or get ill. But as Solo said, thinking you're going to get shot doesn't make you die with a bullet hole in you. It's just some things. Maybe the man in the story thought he was going to die from the cold and because he thought it was cold, his brain was sending the wrong messages telling his body to shut down to try and survive. Right now it's like 3C outside and I'm sat with the window open in a T-shirt. I'm not thinking about the cold so I'm fine, but if I start to think about it I start to shiver and feel it. If you think it's cold, it's cold. If you think it's hot, it's hot.

Its not completely mental if there's a physical reaction I suppose. Don't quote me on that.