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A curious auditory illusion has occupied the users of the World cobwebs. True, not every one of us, as it turned out, is capable of to experience its effect on yourself. Take a look at the below an animation comically depicting two towers of a power line, between which the third jumps, using wires as jump ropes. If you are constantly looking at this animation, you hear in certain moments the same sound, which in fact no, then you are definitely one of those lucky ones.
A huge number of regulars on the Web claim to be distinctly they hear a blow in their head whenever a jumping support of a power transmission line falls to the ground. And this is despite the fact that the audio track is here completely absent. Dr. Lisa Debruin, a psychologist working in Glasgow University, published this recurring short cartoon on Twitter to learn how to react users on this illusion. The survey involved more than 15 thousand people, 75% of whom reported that they hear perfectly the mysterious sound of a blow, which in reality is not.
Some explanations for sound and visual illusions
Dr. Debruin suggests that so-called acoustic reflex of ears. This protective mechanism was designed nature in order to protect a person’s hearing from loud noise. IN in this case, there is no noise after the landing of the power transmission line support audible, but our ears still resonate in his pending. Our eyes behave in a similar way when we look in the cinema 3D movies. They automatically close if something flies in the frame right in the direction of the viewer, although in fact no there is no real threat.
There is another, even bolder theory. According to her man generally lives not in the real, but in the illusory world of his ideas about him. That is, he sees and hears (for simplification, so far about others feelings we won’t) only that which he knows well, relying on on your previous experience. In this case, the human brain is good knows that such a cumbersome support, falling to the ground, should make a loud sound – and therefore he hears it. Man in advance sees green grass, white snow and blue sky because he knows that they should be like that, and so on. It turns out that our feelings constantly deceive us. And this auditory illusion perfectly proves it …
Illusions
