[Closed] Can you "hear" this silent gif?

I can't hear it but I can kind of feel it in my ears, like the pressure of it.

Yeah, that's similar to what I "sense". Lol

Nope, I can see the gif shake when the pylon lands, but nothing audible.

I know I can't hear it but I can absolutely visualise- earalise? the sound. Quite odd actually! Cool link

Nah, obvz I can see the pylon “bounce” and when it lands the gif “wobbles” but I get no sound at all.

Clearly I’m not the target audience for this sort of “thing”

Of course not, it’s just a gi........oh!

I get the sensation. The other one with the elephant is cool too.

Wow! If I turn my speakers to 11 I. An hear the static on the lines 😆

IGMC

Never mind the pylons are they seriously saying that dress is white and gold not blue and black?

Surely its just your other senses filling in the blanks, a bit like when your eyes don't fully see something but your brain does some dot to dot to compensate.

Never mind the pylons are they seriously saying that dress is white and gold not blue and black?

Umm.....

I think it's the signal caused by my brain clearing the decks for the anticipated arrival of an actual sound.

Yeah same as martinhutch. I think your eyes go, "Oh big noise inbound, adjust the amplifier" so you sort of get the volume turning down but no actual thud.

but would you have heard it if you hadn’t been asked if you could hear.....?

Q: if you say you can hear when you watch the GIF, can you still hear it if you close your eyes?

Wow how strange! And even more so looking at the still before hitting play you really don't anticipate it sounding like a trumpet!

The human brain takes a few short cuts to make sense of the world I guess?

Even so.... It can't cope with Brexit! 😀

I can hear it!

Weird! Definately heard a thud 😕

Yeah yeah, these things are always a load of boll- ... wait, what?

legend -
but would you have heard it if you hadn’t been asked if you could hear.....?

Good point - I've seen that gif before, ages ago and never had any thought there was sound with it, imagined or otherwise.

Do you still ‘hear’ it with the sound turned off?

Yes I "hear" it. A regular thump thump sort of sound. Well obviously it isn't a sound, but I still "hear" it. The mind is a strange thing.

I don't hear it nor is my tinnitus affected as some folk claim.

myti - Member
Never mind the pylons are they seriously saying that dress is white and gold not blue and black?

Too obvious, no-one's going to bite! However the weird brain antics are similar for that and the pylon one. I was always certain the dress was blue and black. It was as clear as the day is long, no ifs, no buts, just bleedin' obvious. Then about a year after it first went viral I was showing it to a colleague who had somehow never heard of it. As I was standing by his desk looking at the image on his monitor, it just changed. One second it was blue and black, the next it was white and gold (This was after after a few minutes' looking at it). And from that point on I couldn't even begin to understand how I'd ever thought it was blue and black, it was so obviously white and gold. I was properly speechless for a good few seconds as my brain tried to figure out what it had just seen.

The pylons one though... no sound for me but I do sort of understand the 'feeling' theory. It's almost like you flinch slightly at the expected shock.

The dress thing was a poorly exposed misleading photo.

nope not a bit

I don't "get" the pylons one - I suppose my brain has no subconscious idea of what a skipping pylon might sound like (cartoony "bwoing" would probably be my conscious expectation). A boulder falling to the ground with the same camera shake might work better, I'd have thought

I sense a thud, as TJ it doesn’t affect my tinnitus

I tried "NOT" hearing it..... By listening to the quite noisy room around me ... but I still could hear the thud.

its definitely not silent....... i can hear it sucking 😉

No..

At first I thought I couldn’t hear a thing then realised I could hear a thud as it landed. I then thought ‘nope, it’s just my heartbeat’, switched it off and... the noise immediately stopped.

scaredypants - Member

I don't "get" the pylons one - I suppose my brain has no subconscious idea of what a skipping pylon might sound like (cartoony "bwoing" would probably be my conscious expectation). A boulder falling to the ground with the same camera shake might work better, I'd have though

Don't think that's how 'it' works. There's a version of the gif where the entire top 3/4 or so of the imagine has been cropped. So leaving just the ground occasionally shaking - it still works

Nope - it's silent.
There is a feeling though - almost like you feel the vibrations when it lands.

I think anyone looking for a proper bang/thud/wallop/boing/whatever is going to be disappointed tbh

The wierd thing is, I could hear it last night (a thud) but not this morning!

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The feeling seems more pronounced on a larger screen. I assume that's because the eyes see more shaking in their field of vision.

Try looking at it then closing your eyes with it still running does the sound stop ? it does for me.

so the brain is putting the sound to the video, quite interesting raises a question about what people really hear ...did you hear the gunshot or did your mind put the noise to the motion .

Neither works for me. Very interesting though.

leading, suggesting question.

Question states "silent", so it's openly inviting you to imagine hearing something.

"Can you imagine the sound this would make?"

"Yes."

Not so interesting! 🙂

I can hear the elephants.. "Weeeeee!"

The "feeling" isn't so pronounced on the elephant one for me for some reason. 🙂