You too sometimes when no one is in the room Do you hear familiar sounds? Don’t worry, you are not alone and there is a very interesting explanation for what you are experiencing.

The name of this phenomenon “audio pareidolia” and here are the scientific facts behind it.

What is this audio pareidolia?

Audio pareidolia, random you perceive words from noise A strange, but common experience. The trigger of the phenomenon varies from person to person.

Some people are bothered by fan noise, others are in the sound of running water or they may experience this situation in the aquarium filter bell sounds.

Although the phenomenon feels like a hallucination, this is not actually the case. That’s what hearing and psychology experts say mishearing real sounds in unusual ways They emphasize that it consists of

So, unlike hallucinations, we are actually here existing sounds, We misinterpret it.

But why does our brain create these sounds?

According to Neil Bauman, our brains are always looking for something, visual or auditory. your brain from random information The desire to find familiar things explains why pareidolia occurs in all sensory systems. Because we see faces in the clouds or we feel like something is crawling on our skin.

Our brains receive everything tries to understand sensory input and delves into his archives to understand this complex sound. As a result, we hear the background noise that is rationalized by our brain.

Bauman, this incident “Not what your ears hear, what your brain perceives “You’ll hear it.” he explains. In short, don’t worry, you’re not schizophrenic. 🙂

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