Pareidolia

[rhinochopig]

Have a listen to this. It's a sine wave.


http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/sin...


DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS UNTIL YOU'VE LISTENED TO THE SAMPLE


Now listen to it again - it was a sunny day and the children were going to the park.

Clever eh.

Pareidolia is why the tin-foil hate brigade hear EVP or Satanic voices when they play records backward. It's also one theory why we see ghosts and other spooky stiff out of our eye corner. We're hard-wired that way.

[AB]

I must be weird. As I heard it straight away. I hear voices... etc.

[Steamer]

AB said:

I must be weird. As I heard it straight away. I hear voices... etc.

Sounded fine to me first time round too - got any others?

[tonyvid]

It's a bit like listening to SSB!

[Famous Graham]

Again - heard that anyway. Thought you were on helium or something

[GTIR]

http://cdn1.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Sine_3.mp3?nvb=...








Please return it to the museum

[rhinochopig]

Steamer said:

AB said:

I must be weird. As I heard it straight away. I hear voices... etc.

Sounded fine to me first time round too - got any others?

A famous one:

http://cdn4.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

Jim Morrison claiming to be Satan

Now listen to the full clip.

http://cdn2.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

[ih8thisname]

I got nothin'....








Ahh - I hear them now!

Edited by ih8thisname on Tuesday 11th August 17:04

[Steamer]

rhinochopig said:

Steamer said:

AB said:

I must be weird. As I heard it straight away. I hear voices... etc.

Sounded fine to me first time round too - got any others?

A famous one:

http://cdn4.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

Jim Morrison claiming to be Satan

Now listen to the full clip.

http://cdn2.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

That one seems to work a bit bettrer.
Okay... so whats he actually say?!

[Lunja]

Hhmmm - I'm not getting it. Just sounds a little like an old radio being tuned in. In the OP's example I can make out the syllabic beats of "It was a sunny day and the..." but I lose it towards the end. It's like trying to decode the speech of someone who is keeping their lips closed (IYKWIM).

Am I destined for a life of MI5 Covert Ops, or a few years in a padded cell?

Edited by Lunja on Tuesday 11th August 17:10

[rhinochopig]

Steamer said:

rhinochopig said:

Steamer said:

AB said:

I must be weird. As I heard it straight away. I hear voices... etc.

Sounded fine to me first time round too - got any others?

A famous one:

http://cdn4.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

Jim Morrison claiming to be Satan

Now listen to the full clip.

http://cdn2.libsyn.com/skeptoid/rs_Break_on_Throug...

That one seems to work a bit bettrer.
Okay... so whats he actually say?!

He's saying nothing. It's from "Break on through to the other side". It's just played backwards.

The theory is that we are hard wired to pick out speech and animal / person visual imagery. We're actually too good at it for own good at times.


Here's another very famous example.

[ih8thisname]

rhinochopig said:

Here's another very famous example.

The first thing I saw there was Pacman....