I’m taking this new course on Edx – Science of everyday thinking and there’s some pretty interesting material that I will like to share.
When you tap out the tune of a common piece of music, such as ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ or ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’, how many out of 100 people do you think can correctly guess the song that you are tapping to?
Most people guess 50% but the answer is a staggering…. 2.5%! Reason being that when you tap out a song, you hear the tune in your head and you know when you are not tapping, whether that’s a pause in the song or a prolonged note. My point being that when you already know an answer, it seems exceedingly obvious but if you are not specifically looking out for it, it’s a lot harder to see it than you think.
Pastor Greenwald argues that good Christian (or otherwise if I may add) kids can identify the source of messages conveyed by heavy metal rock songs played normally and thus reject them objectively. However, if there are subliminal messages in these same songs when played backwards, these kids can’t identify the source of the messages and may then confuse them as their own thinking and potentially making ill-informed decisions.
Now, I’d like to conduct an experiment. Pastor Greenwald claims that there is a hidden message when you play Queen’s “Another one bite the dust”. So click on this video link (which is part of the course material) and go to exactly 5:33 before pressing ‘Play’. This is critical as the answer is revealed just seconds before that part of the clip. Can you hear what the message is?
More research has been done on this area, join the course to find out more!
A Smile A Day 