Yanny or Laurel?

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This is like that dress that looked different colors, and the pink sneakers.

So weird! I just asked my husband, thinking we would hear the same thing…nope.
 
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I don’t know either! Thought it had to do with geography, but as I said, my husband heard Yanny. Did your husband hear the same as you?
 
From hat I’ve heard it is somehow related to hearing frequencies. Those who hear Yanny tend to be younger. That’s strange because I heard Yanny and am not in that group!
 
Of the 2 choices I had to pick yanny. However, what I heard was yarrie. One of the sites has that speeded up or slowed down by 30%. Then the slowed was much closer to yanny and the sped up much closer to laurel.
 
I hear Laurel. Personally, I suspect that this is some kind CIA mind control experiment.

It reminds me of Dollhouse, “[…] where the mind-wiping technology of the Dollhouse has developed to the extent that vast numbers of people can be remotely wiped and have new personalities implanted […]”.
 
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I hear Laurel. Personally, I suspect that this is some kind CIA mind control experiment.

It reminds me of Dollhouse, “[…] where the mind-wiping technology of the Dollhouse has developed to the extent that vast numbers of people can be remotely wiped and have new personalities implanted […]”.
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Oh good grief.

It’s not “mind control”

Have you ever seen the “speech Banana”

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Notice that “Yanny” --the a and n are above the l and the r of “Laurel” when you turn the sound up, Laurel can emerge for those who are hearing “Yanny”. However, many people hear laurel because they can already hear all the sounds at lower decibles.
 
Laurel is plain as day to me. 🙂

But in this video it changes to Yanny when the frequency changes.

 
I swear I think this is some sort of horrible April Fool’s Day prank! 😭

Or a government conspiracy. 😠🚬

This morning on the news, I hear “Yanny.” I kept trying to hear Laurel, preparing my brain to hear it, but absolutely couldn’t.

In the car after school (and 90 minutes after my last class), NPR had a little segment talking about same thing as @Xanthippe_Voorhees, that it has to do with ability to hear different frequencies.

Here’s that story:


Again, at 3:55, I’m hearing “Yanny” clear as anything. And no matter how hard I try to force myself to hear an L and an R, I just can’t.

Then I go to my son’s middle school music concert, and I end up with a choice seat right in front the kid playing the trap set (drums).

It’s loud.
It’s killing my ears.
I even cover my ears for a minute or two.

Then I get in the car to go home, and the NPR story is repeating (it’s two hours later). This time, clear as anything, I hear Laurel.

What the hey??? 😠 😠 😠

My best guess is that my ten minute exposure to the trap set caused my ears to “shut down” a bit, as it were, making them less sensitive to certain frequencies.

Fast forward to ten minutes ago (8:30)… I’ve been home a couple hours, it’s quiet, I find this thread and listen to the clip. It’s back to Yanny.

So, it’s either:

a) an April Fool’s Day prank in May
b) a government conspiracy
c) something scientific having to do with ability to hear high and low pitches.

I hope it’s C, because science is just really cool. 🤓 😎
 
Gertabelle said:
So, it’s either:

a) an April Fool’s Day prank in May
b) a government conspiracy
c) something scientific having to do with ability to hear high and low pitches.

I hope it’s C, because science is just really cool. 🤓 😎
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It’s C. It’s funny because the speech path was just explaining the same thing to me except with the other end of the banana–involving th and k. Someone who’s lost the ability to hear in the 5000 range will often hear kick and thick and sick as all the same word.
 
That’s really interesting.

I’m wrapping up my 21st year as an elementary school music teacher, and noise is my life. I love to have the kids play instruments, so it can be quite chaotic acoustically when they’re all practicing at once. I used to get my ears checked once a year when the kids got their hearing checked, but my schedule at my current school makes that near impossible. I’d be curious what I’ve lost with age and “exposure.” 👵 🎶
 
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That’s weird…I heard it on the radio yesterday as yerlaural ,today on the iPad laurel 🤔
When I turned the radio on yesterday it was already playing and I said yerlaural several times,then wondered what the heck they were talking about…tuned in to the explanation.
Are all the recordings they same?
 
I think this whole “controversy” was cooked up by the musician Yanni’s agent to bolster his career 😠
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By the way, I hear laurel. I must be old. I am old 👴 😠
 
I think this is the auditory equivalent of a color perception (or color-blindness) test image.

Here is an example. (There are many.)

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People with color perception deficits will see a different figure.
 
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