![]() Saying the same thing over and over, mantras, Ohm, are all the loop function applied to human thought. What if you put thought through it? What if we applied this loop to ourselves?īut hypnosis also contains the concept of a meditative state. But then they took this premise to it's logical extreme. If you put an image or video through it, you would get a GIF. If you put sound through that loop function, you would get music. They began by thinking about a loop as a function. Now, this powerful illusion tells us that repetition is so deeply rooted in music that we can turn words into music merely by repeating them in a loop!Īnd… if we can repeat a few words over and over to become music, what happens when we repeat other things over and over? Applying Loops More WidelyĪ year or two ago the inventor of Giphy, Alex Chung, and video artist Paul Pfeiffer asked the same question. What is especially insane about this speech-to-song illusion is that you can never unhear it - you will ALWAYS, from now on, hear "sometimes behave so strangely" as a song. And just in case you think you're the only one, see how the exact same thing happened to these children. If you are like most people, at some point the “sometimes behaves so strangely” started sounding like a melody. We know the difference between speaking and singing, right? Well, let's see for ourselves what happens when we listen to what Diana did. After a little while she started wondering - what is that singing? She realized it was her own voice, on repeat, that she had confused with a song. ![]() So one night she was editing a bit of audio, and left the tape running on a loop while she went to the kitchen to make tea. Typically, Deutsche conducts these experiments by having people listen to tapes that she records and edits herself. ![]() San Diego who studies how people perceive music and pitch and how that's affected by all sorts of things, like whether you're right- or left-handed, where you grew up, or even our expectations or beliefs about what we're about to hear. To illustrate this, let me tell you the story of Diana Deutsche.ĭiana Deutsche is a psychologist at U.C. Transformationįinally, another reason loops are so powerful is that they can transform something mundane or average into something completely different. And every time our imagination is right, every time our expectations about what comes next are confirmed, it's a surprise, and we get a big rush! In a way this is why the little bouncing ball on old Disney sing-a-long music videos works so well-we can imagine and prepare to sing what comes next. ![]() When you hear a few notes of a song you know, you're already imagining what's coming next-your mind is unconsciously singing along. One reason why psychologists think music is so powerful is that we become imagined participants in a song. But if you heard your favorite song for the 18th time, it would probably be just as great! So if anything can help us solve the mysterious power of loops, it should be music. If someone told you a joke for the 18th time, it’d likely be very annoying. Besides children stories, which most of us grow out of anyways, there are very few areas in life where we’re absolutely fine with repeating the same thing over and over.
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