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Can you hear this silent GIF?

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Deozaan:
I don't really hear it, but I do get some kind of sensation that's hard to explain (could be an acoustic reflexw). That said, this one does more for me than the power lines one:

https://twitter.com/lisadebruine/status/937677036923113472

Some people suggest that the auditory sensation is all in the camera shake (perhaps triggering the acoustic reflex). Edvard, can you still hear it with this one?

https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/937613516927889408

mouser:
It does seem like its all in the camera shake.. Yeah I don't hear anything but I kind of get a funny vibration-like feeling.
Not so surprising -- the brain integrates all sorts of information in order to interpret incoming sensory information and vision is our dominant sense.

Edvard:
I don't really hear it, but I do get some kind of sensation that's hard to explain (could be an acoustical reflexw). That said, this one does more for me than the power lines one:

https://twitter.com/lisadebruine/status/937677036923113472

Some people suggest that the auditory sensation is all in the camera shake (perhaps triggering the acoustic reflex). Edvard, can you still hear it with this one?

https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/937613516927889408
-Deozaan (December 08, 2017, 04:40 PM)
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For the first one, I still hear a low decaying "thuddd" when Totoro hits the ground, but I also hear the sign rattling around; kind of a brief "pen rattling in a plastic cup" sort of sound.  For the second one, the effect is much more muted than the original; kind of flicking the end of a rubber eraser. 

Again, it doesn't come from my ears, but somewhere... deeper; more like sensations than anything, but I do perceive distinct characteristics to them depending on the visual stimulus.  Maybe like Mouser said "It's all in the camera shake", like the camera shake is the stimulus, and the noise is the response, and in some people the association is stronger than the observation.  Or something.  I'd be interested in seeing those GIFs without the shake and see what happens.

Thanks for the Acoustical Reflex link, I've noticed that sort of sensation when trying to listen to something I don't want to listen to, like when someone is loudly expressing an opinion that makes me uncomfortable.  Like when my wife talks about going Vegan.  :'(

IainB:
I suspect that, once it has first been suggested that one might hear something, the level of one's suggestibility will then determine whether one hears something, or not - i.e., suggestion can be a pretty powerful sort of hypnotist's psychological trick.

It's nonsense anyway, as everyone knows that electricity pylons don't play skip-rope. That would be just plain silly, as my 7 y/o son has just pointed out to me. I think he might be right.

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