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CreonAntigone
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Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle
#28377042 - 06/27/23 08:10 PM (6 months, 28 days ago) |
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This one really blows my mind. It is one sound that your brain tricks you into thinking is two entirely different sounds, depending on priming.
At times you can focus and get one. Sometimes it switches between the two quickly. At other times I only hear one. Sometimes which I'm focusing on doesn't matter for what I end up hearing.
Neither really sounds like the other. The brain filters out the sounds that aren't relevant to the chosen interpretation.
A good example of neural filtering, and how reality is sifted to create what we see. But I wonder why it's so finnicky - why is it that one can switch it so easily to hear one of two, rather than to just hear the one consistently, if it's the same sound?
Edited by CreonAntigone (06/27/23 11:49 PM)
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: CreonAntigone]
#28377074 - 06/27/23 08:24 PM (6 months, 28 days ago) |
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You can also hear brain needle or green storm.
Brain/green are pretty close but hearing either needle or storm is pretty wild.
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: Rahz]
#28382110 - 07/02/23 06:24 AM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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I heard "brain needle," which was probably only because I've had a lobotomy... which is probably the most underrated surgery ever.
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: Moses_Davidson]
#28382127 - 07/02/23 06:42 AM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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you got a lobotomy? is that why you had a shroomery hiatus?
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: CreonAntigone]
#28382222 - 07/02/23 08:01 AM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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I tried through two listens and no matter how hard I try I can only hear "green needle"
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: Dave Bowman]
#28382288 - 07/02/23 09:03 AM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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Try closing alternate eyes to influence alternate hemispheres.
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: redgreenvines]
#28382703 - 07/02/23 02:01 PM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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redgreenvines said: you got a lobotomy? is that why you had a shroomery hiatus?
Finishing that dissertation did have lobotomizing effects, but I can personally recommend a wonderful back-alley guy who uses fentanyl for a pain killer and a needle that he assured me he washed very well!
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: Buster_Brown]
#28382741 - 07/02/23 02:24 PM (6 months, 24 days ago) |
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Quote:
Dave Bowman said: I tried through two listens and no matter how hard I try I can only hear "green needle"
Quote:
Buster_Brown said: Try closing alternate eyes to influence alternate hemispheres.
Or plugging alternate ears if you prefer to hear through those.
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CreonAntigone
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: Dave Bowman]
#28383929 - 07/03/23 04:38 PM (6 months, 22 days ago) |
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Dave Bowman said: I tried through two listens and no matter how hard I try I can only hear "green needle"
I could hear both, then after I posted this I had a listen where I only heard 'brainstorm'. I was disappointed as I thought it didn't work anymore. Tried to will myself to hear 'green needle' but to no avail.
Then I tried again a few hours later and heard 'green needle' a few times. It's finnicky, like an old car.
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Re: Hearing a sound as two sounds: Brainstorm/Green needle [Re: CreonAntigone]
#28386868 - 07/06/23 08:42 AM (6 months, 20 days ago) |
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Needling of the Green during the perigee of the "Buck" moon, lol.
Edited by Buster_Brown (07/06/23 09:01 AM)
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