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What percentage of hospital staff in a 2010 study reported experiencing 'phantom pocket vibration syndrome'?

The pattern seeking brain

Chapter 1

Faces in strange places

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Chapter 2

Sounds from the silence

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Chapter 3

Connecting the dots

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Built to survive

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Master of The pattern seeking brain

Ch 2 · Sounds from the silence
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renaissanceman Phantom vibrations in your pocket

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renaissanceman Audio Pareidolia

Hear a voice in the static? (Yeah, it's singing!) / Just your brain finding music! (Oh, it's playing!)

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renaissanceman The backward music panic

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Phantom vibrations in your pocket

renaissanceman Millions of smartphone users regularly feel vibrations in their pockets when no notification has actually arrived.

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The backward music panic

renaissanceman During the 1970s and 1980s, critics accused rock bands of hiding satanic messages in reversed music tracks.

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Shower Choir Bubbles
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renaissanceman Pop the singing bubbles to discover why your brain hears voices in random noise.

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Fun Fact

Backward lyrics: Psychologists found that playing music backward sounds like gibberish unless someone tells you what to listen for.

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Glossary
audio pareidolia (noun)
The psychological illusion of hearing meaningful sounds, such as voices or music, within random background noise. In 1959, Friedrich Jürgensen experienced this phenomenon after detecting his deceased mother's voice within tape recorder static.

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Gossip

What is the spookiest sound to hear unexpectedly?

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Quiz

What is the term for playing a music track backward to reveal supposed hidden messages?

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renaissanceman Ghostly voices in radio static

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Quiz

Which famous 1971 Led Zeppelin song was accused of containing hidden backward messages about Satan?

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renaissanceman The mystery of global hums

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Quiz

What is the name of the New Mexico town famous for a mysterious, low-frequency hum reported in the 1990s?

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Quiz

Why do people often hear music or voices in the sound of a running shower or fan?

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Quiz

What percentage of hospital staff in a 2010 study reported experiencing 'phantom pocket vibration syndrome'?

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Quiz

Which cognitive mechanism is responsible for turning random audio static into recognizable words?

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Quiz

Who was the Swedish film producer who first documented Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) in 1959?

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Quiz

In a 1985 study on backmasking, what did researchers find was required for people to hear 'satanic' messages?

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