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Laurel or Yanny?

And as usual I don't properly fit in either camp. I heard yannie, about 4 times then laurel and that's all I've heard since.

Which shouldn't be that surprising in a sense. It's not "really" saying either. Our perception of a word is largely just an illusion, a trick of our minds. Once you've recognized a word, it can be very hard to hear it differently after that. For example, imagine hearing English the way someone who can't speak English would. You can't. It would be perceived very differently and you kinda can't perceive one and the other at the same time. Neither is the "correct" way of hearing it. Cause everything we see and hear is somewhat colored by our brains information processing, which is very subjective.

Funnily enough that's exactly what happened with the yellow blue dress thing. I saw yellow the first few times, then blue every time after.

What I find interesting is how people react to this sort of thing. You can tell a lot about someone's adherence to science and understanding of the fallibilities of perception by how firmly they insist that it really is one way or the other rather than accepting that it's kinda not either, and kinda both.

Its kinda frustrating that they actually ask you which one you hear rather than asking what you hear without giving you 2 set possibilities. Saying the possibilities colors the perception on from the get go.
 
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spacejunk said:
Did you listen to it on the same speakers/device the first and subsequent times?
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Yep, I literally was listening to it on its loop, was yannie the first 4 or so times over that 8 seconds or so, then laurel each time since. Tried it again after taking a few minute break. Still laurel. This was on headphones at that. No other sound in the room.

Only difference was my perception.

I remember how it seemed to sound in both variations, but it's obviously just an illusion.
 
People were saying to me yesterday that they could literally hear one or the other by choice. Like, a couple of people said they could have one alternating with the other, depending on how they focused on it.
Which is interesting huh? I could kind of do it, when one of the girls played it on her phone - but not with my phone.
 
I can do that with some optical illusions, switch perception by choice. But I wasn't able to with this, not so far anyway.

My favorite optical illusion (I know this isn't an optical illusion, but it's the audio equivalent) for a long time, and still probably is, is this...

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For anyone who hasn't seen it, both squares, A and B are the same shade of gray. This is only of the only illusions I actually went to the extra effort of personally verifying cause I found it so amazing. Sadly I've now stared at it so long I can quite easily tell that they're the same. But I had to see it a lot of times before that happened.

When I've been able to choose which way to perceive an optical illusion, it's usually been by visualizing the way I want to see it in my minds eye and trying to not focus too hard. Blinking seems to help sometimes too with getting the brain to basically "try again" with perceiving it. But I've only experienced it with some illusions of this type. Never was able to do it by will with the dress color thing either. Again blinking or trying to not focus on it then start over sometimes helps, but, for me anyway, it seems like over time my brain decides a "correct" perception and it gets increasingly harder after that to experience it differently.
 
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I heard people talking about this on the radio today for like 10 minutes.

Jess, I couldn't believe it could actually be true so I copied it and put it into Photoshop and indeed, they're the same color (hex #787877 as it happens). Despite verifying it, there is no way I can make my brain think those are the same colors.

It's actually just the TINIEST bit off-gray actually... if it were true grayscale it would be 787878, or 777777 or something... the 3 sets of 2 hex digits have to be equal to really be grayscale.
 
Xorkoth said:
I heard people talking about this on the radio today for like 10 minutes.

Jess, I couldn't believe it could actually be true so I copied it and put it into Photoshop and indeed, they're the same color (hex #787877 as it happens). Despite verifying it, there is no way I can make my brain think those are the same colors.

It's actually just the TINIEST bit off-gray actually... if it were true grayscale it would be 787878, or 777777 or something... the 3 sets of 2 hex digits have to be equal to really be grayscale.
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Yep, I had to verify it too. If you look at it long enough, eventually you might end up seeing how they're the same. I can see it without trying now. Mainly cause my brain seems to be trained to focus on just the squares and ignore everything else. But it a while before I could see it. It helped to see it with everything blacked out except the a and b squares. But it's still pretty amazing. Probably one of the best optical illusions I've seen.
 
My Mum's switched over to yanny now, from Laurel for the first few days. The brain's a lark.

What colour is this shoe?

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The original laurel/yanny clip I listened to sounded like both were being said simultaneously. That video has since been removed from youtube. I suspect that clip was some kind of sinister ruse intended to further convolute an already puzzling situation because now all that I hear is laurel.

The shoes appear to be light gray with turquoise to me.

There is no red in this picture:

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I can only hear yanny. Listening through my computer speakers. How the hard "y" in the beginning could ever translate to an "l" is beyond me. Also the "ee" sound that the final "y" makes for me seems about as far away from an L as the first. Cdugs, could you post the different link that you heard "laurel" from? I want to try it.
 
herbavore said:
I can only hear yanny. Listening through my computer speakers. How the hard "y" in the beginning could ever translate to an "l" is beyond me. Also the "ee" sound that the final "y" makes for me seems about as far away from an L as the first. Cdugs, could you post the different link that you heard "laurel" from? I want to try it.
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Okay! I did a deep dive for the link, and although I didn't find it, I listened until I found one. <3

I hear yanny, but on this one I can hear Laurel clearly.



Ummm... now I hear yanny on the above.

At about 1:10 left, I can hear Laurel with pitch adjusted in this one:



Hopefully one of these works. :)
 
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Surprisingly cdugs, this time I heard: "Go and buy a strawberry tart with double portions of creme patissiere."

This may be Kaden_Nite's fault.
 
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