Cast your mind to the heady days of 2018, when fresh off the back of the Yanny Laurel debate, we had a new sound to dissect.
In an audio clip that did the rounds two years ago, you could hear a voice say either ‘brainstorm’ or green needle’.
0f course, polarising videos have much viral potential, and over on TikTok it’s been gaining traction.
After TikTokker Emily Sophie, from Wales, shared a video using the old sound, she went viral, with people watching her TikTok more than five million times.
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In the clip, Emily asks viewers to watch the clip twice, once reading brainstorm – which should mean they hear that word – and then trying it again with green needle.
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After being liked more than 170,000 times, the clip was also shared on Twitter, where it found more fame.
@emilysophie.m Watch it twice and try both words 🙌 #mindblown #greenneedle #brainstorm #greenneedleorbrainstorm
♬ Shoutout to the dead creators using this for likes – redlobsterz
The video has fascinated celebrities including actor and comedian Ricky Gervais, who retweeted the video alongside the caption: ‘It also works if you close your eyes and just think of the one you want to hear’.
Not only that, others pointed out that you could get your brain to find a middle ground between the opposing words.
If you think ‘brain needle’ or ‘green storm’ or read those words, you can also hear them in the audio.
Those who hadn’t come across the old audio – which initially got shared on Reddit in 2018 – were amazed.
One person wrote: ‘OMG… IM KINDA FREAKED OUT, YET VERY VERY IMPRESSED’.
Another wrote: ‘What wizardry is this???’.
If you’re wondering why our brains play this trick on us, it may be because people’s hearing and brain function may ‘latch on’ to different sounds.
When the phenomenon first surfaced, University College London Professor Valerie Hazan told the Huffington Post: ‘The reason that a person can see their perception switch without explanation may also mean that our ears and brain have latched on to the other acoustic pattern than the one they were previously latching on to.’
And interestingly, it was previously revealed that the original audio actually said ‘brainstorm’.
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