Is it possible to affect a human mind using visual images in architecture

What if, through advanced psychological techniques and enough knowledge of a human mind, could someone construct a building that when a person lives there for an amount of time, could subliminally influence their thoughts to such an extent that a sort of program could take place, which could give the person living there hallucinations or make them think a certain way.

When I say program, i mean a sort of arrangement of mental associations that would be built into the architecture (e.g. a certain shape a person associates with murder appearing in a pattern in the carpet) that person living there would connect with to create a state of hypnotism through the subliminal messages within the architecture that would trigger a series of events which the person who built the building had pre-planned to take pace.

For example: in the shining, Jack lives in a hotel for a few months during the winter and eventually goes insane and tries to kill everyone, also experiencing several conversations with "ghosts". What if, instead of the hotel actually being haunted, (hand-waving aside the reasons why someone would go through all the immense trouble to pull this off) someone with full knowledge of how jacks brain works and how all his memories and synapses link together to form connections and associations, build the hotel with subliminal messages that with the act of looking around at the different parts of the hotel (the walls, wood fixtures, doors, carpeting) would trigger his sub-conscious into acting on what the builder had "programmed" him to do.

-Is this possible or pure pseudo-science?

-What would such a thing be called, would the building itself qualify as a physical program, or some kind of data that the mind could compute

E.g. an SD card holds memory but only the computer can read it just as the building can only store the information but the human brain can read it?

Limitations:

no chemicals, only the architecture can influence the person inside by direct observation of the architecture alone

Looking for any scientific answers

posted about 8 years ago

totally not rick sanchez‭

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