Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25877059-20150630023513

So, a placebo/nocebo is when doing something affects you becauase you thought it would affect you, even though the action itself had no effect.

And in the HxH world, there's actually something like that that's Nen related, but in a very roundabout way!

Nen, more specifically, the "Vows & Limitations" part!

For example, Kurapika got stronger by limiting some of his powers soley to use on the spiders.

However, what if it's possible to not only set the limitation, but the result, too, based on the strength of the limiation?

For example, if an enhancer set that "if I jump 100 times a day for a month, I will grow 1 cm taller (like in chinese medicine).

Now, if such a hypothetical situation were possible in a Nen user, wouldn't it be possible in a normal HxH world human, too? Afterall, Nen is in all living things, but only the really strong/special can control it.

Therefor, a regular human should be able to subconciously set a weaker version of a "vow & limitation" on themselves to create a placebo effect, like the one above.

(e.g. Jumping 100 times a day for a month doesn't actually do anything for a regular person, but because of the brain subconciously setting a "super-weak" version of a "vow & limitation", that person actually does grow 1 cm more than they actually would have).

Of course, placebo affects, therefor, would probably be more easily induced in enhancer types, since they're simple, so they're prone to believe in things and make simple conditions for themselves.

tl;dr

In the HxH world, Placebos and Nocebos are a result of subconciously using a weak version Nen's "Vow & Limitation" usage in ordinary humans who aren't strong.special enough to use Nen.

What do you think? Well, this is probably just overthinking it, and the placebo affects are in the HxH world is probably just due to their brains like irl.

(Unless irl, Ki exists and the placebo/noceboo affect also exists due to the brain influencing that?! Dundundun!!! LOL.) 