It's a bad obsession It's always messin' It's always messin' myyyyyyyy mind....I can't stop thinking 'bout white bears! one more time. Ah but no, actually now I'm more thinking about how much I used to like that song aged 12 without ever reading the lyrics. You can find them here if you're interested.
Anyway, the similarity between white bears and what Axl is calls his mum, is that they are both things I have been trying quite hard NOT to think about this evening. This brings me to a fantastic book,
You can test one of the wacky experiments in here by sitting in an empty room and trying NOT to think about white bears.
Ha! not as easy as you thought is it
Better still get yourself a copy of Alex Boese's book and see the other tricks that his great conversational writing can play on you.
This experiment is fully documented in
Wegner D. M., Schneider D. J. "Paradoxical effects of thought suppression" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 53 (1) pp 5-13
