"Hello, thank you for calling" I love these quirks of perception so much.

For some reason I expected the audio to say "like and subscribe", the fact that it wasn't that baffled me

This is also the phenomenon behind a lot of the backmasking panic of the 90's. Parents didn't like rock or metal music and so were predisposed to hear all kinds of things when the music was played backwards. They would then write what they thought they heard, and put that text for people to read as it played backwards. and the text would prime people to hear what they were told to hear. I realized what was happening when a friend had 3 "messages" that he displayed while a song played backward and i heared them all when he played the same song backward. I then grew skeptical and always questioned what people told me i should hear.

Philosophy or philosophy of consciousness is something I love to learn about and this video helped fill in gaps that only I could see/hear after watching this video. Not only am I impressed but I'm eager to watch more from your channel. Loved the vid. :)

I heard "Hello, thank you, I'm fine" - super interesting to see in the comments how many different versions there can come out from what each of our minds had expected.

This subject is fascinating! For anyone interested in reading about it, Lisa Feldman's book "How Emotions are Made" delves into more examples of this new theory of mind.

"Hello, thank you for calling." was first thing I heard. But there is also the FACT that the human brain CAN be Manipulated into thinking that it is hearing things it isn't. Or seeing, feeling and taste, even smell. It would have been interesting to hear that in the video. It's an all around cool subject, thank you!

i heard "hello, speak to the sign!" i have very bad social anxiety and i'm always worrying about talking to people, interacting with others, etc. i think maybe i heard the sentence command me to speak to 'the sign' because of this. very very cool! on a separate note, they'll probably never see this, but i've loved asapSCIENCE since i was probably like 9 years old. i'll turn 18 this summer. thank you asapSCIENCE for making life a bit happier and a bit smarter

Y'all never disappoint...

I personally understood "like and subscribe" which I think perfectly fits with the context you talked about. Freaking awesome great video!

I love you dude.... your energy is the the absolute best. Thanks

Clicked on this video randomly, after 1 minute was like “I need to subscribe “ love it ALL!

I heard "Wow, I think she was fine", then "Wow, Stacey was fine." I could see the horse in the image but not the girl. I like to think of the Adelson's Checkerboard illusion as the result of our brains having color-correction capabilities rather than a mistake. We can often see things in very unusually colored lighting as the proper colors and some people get better at it with training.

“The lamb speaks to the sign” Hey, I had a surprising amount of syllables right. I don’t think this really reveals much about my subconscious though.

im from colombia i am glad you liked my country, you are very welcome here in bogota

That blew my mind🤯 I had no idea of either.

“The bells seem to sign” is what I heard Crazy how quickly my perception of what I heard changed once I knew the words

I heard "I'll (pause) paint you a sign", which is really close. It's still hard for me to see the woman and the horse afterwards though. It's there if I look for it but I see a person juggling a ball on very abstract art.

I heard "Good bye! Thank you for watching". In fact, after the real phrase, I was still hearing that.

"Wow, you're so kind!" I also thought the picture was a detective looking through a magnifying glass. after I saw the color version when I looked at the altered one again I could see the actual picture AND the detective. Like I can consciously switch between them! So weird and cool!

What I thought I heard: "Hey, I speak through a sign!" Took me about five listenings to infer this specific phrase, but kept feeling that I had to say it in my head every time it came up again just to reconfirm what I was supposedly hearing. Originally, it was just a garbled mess of acute sounds, but asking me to think what I heard made my brain create something somewhat sensible, even though I actually believe there's no actual words being said (reminds me of Mark Rober's talking piano from a month, or so, ago). And lo and behold, I was half right and half wrong. I believed that there wasn't any meaning to the sounds at first, but after you egged me on to find meaning, my brain created a sentence. And would you have it "The man is painting a sign." is at least one word correct to my "Hey, I speak through a sign!". Had you not told me to find meaning, I would not have; but then again, I wasn't expecting to find meaning either.

Funny...for me it sounds like "Now, take your time." How interesting, finding something give you a result based on your current perception and context of things.

hello.thanks for your time.

Love this guy, halarious and smart!

“i’ll speak just fine” noticed a lot of other people also heard “sign” as “fine. not entirely sure how this reflects on me but this was a really interesting video! love learning things abt consciousness

I assumed the sentence said " dont worry, everything is fine." Which makes sense because my boyfriend and I have been in and out of the airport the past 2 days, and life has been crazy and we've been reassuring each other that everything will be okay!

omg!! this is actually very crazy. You can't unsee or unhear it. Sh!t is awesome.

Hello! thank you for calling!

"Hello, thank you for coming" or "Hello, thank you for calling." I think this is how EVP's work. People fill in the blanks. I was still able to see the illusions even after knowing what they really were. Matrixing makes it easy to see multiple images in the picture.

I heard "yeah, he seems fine" Remember The Dress or Yanny/Laurel? Difficult to believe, but I could actually "see"/"hear" both. I could switch it to see/hear it in both ways. So there's something to learn about consciousness. P.S. You went to Colombia and didn't tell me?! Come on, I live there.

at 3:16 I paused and cut out 2 holes in a sheet of paper, held it over the paused image. So cool to see the difference uncovered, and to have it magickly appear the same color through the holes.

Yes, thank you I’m fine!

Audio first impresison was "hello, how are you doing?" Replaying it a few times was something along the lines of like... "Bros, empty your souls!" Which was the weirdest shift in perspective ever... can't wait to see what it "actually" says.

"no! stick to the sign" this was so interesting! its crazy how the brain does things that achieve the opposite goal and how we can trick it into doing that

Your energy and facial expressions make my day! :D

So I just proved you can’t see this only once. I watched this a year ago, and now I’ve watched it again after forgetting it, and have seen it twice!

Just started the video: I'm having trouble hearing _anything_ decipherable from the sentence, and I bet this is intentional, but the closest thing I can piece together from listening to it a couple of times is "Oh no! Stupid phone!". I'll come back at the end of the video to see what it actually was. EDIT: Very interesting! I'm not typically one to get too frustrated with technology myself, but I currently live around people who absolutely do. So I can understand how I would have interpreted it like that! "Oh no, stupid phone" is a phrase I've probably heard many times. I won't say what the phrase really was to avoid spoiling people going through the comments.

The sentence sounded like "Hello! Everything's fine!" to me. It took seeing the image side-by-side both ways before I could see the original shapes in the hard-to-see version, and it's still hard for me to see the ground truth in the test image. In my human-computer interface class back in the 90s we had a similar example of a cow that you can't unsee, and even 25 years later I can still see the cow when I see the test image.

At my age, that centre frequency is too high, all I make out is the brief word of "I" and "am to" and "fine"

Yo creo que esta teoría tiene muchísimo que ver con el aprendizaje de idiomas también. Excelente video.

As an artist, I was taught in art school to “draw what you see, not what you THINK you see”. A guy I used to work with dropped out and said it was because that phrase was stupid, your brain is what you think you see. I had to explain to him this whole concept, you have a vision of what your brain think “a dog” looks like and it’s not nearly as accurate as looking straight at a dog, dropping preconceived ideas of what “a dog” is, because your brain is probably wrong.

The sound is perceived as your mind predicts what it is or what you believe it is. For me it says "hey seems you're fine" but even from fully hearing the sound "The man's painting a sign" you can always go back think of what what heard and replay it again and it will play it from what you think it is based on sound and recognition. Might be just fully saying random stuff but that's what I believe it is.

im doing this cause he told me to, but i heard it say hello im doing fine, after finishing the video it is clear i thought this as its very akin to how i reassure people im fine when im not.

Every once and a while I go back to this video

Personally, I heard "Yes, thank you, you're kind." I find it cool that I picked this up and everyone else has their own different version that they picked up, really cool guys keep it up.

It sounded like, “wow, this is fun” to me. once your aware of the answers you can’t unsee it, until you forget again and you hear what you want to hear.

I actually saw the picture 4 times because you showed it in four separate instances before you revealed what it depicts

Even after seeing the source image, it still took me a considerable effort to really see the woman and the horse on the black & white image. But with sound, it was effortless.

“Wow, i baked you a sign” I honestly couldnt really hear anything out of the middle part so the baked part is just cuz it at first reminded me of the muffin song where it says “i baked you a pie” I also had to listen to it several times because at first i just heard nothing but a tune going up and down

I thought it said “Man, space is sign” which is shockingly close to the original. I got the words from the vowels I was able to make out, since I couldn’t hear many consonants. Perhaps it means I play things by ear when I don’t know what’s going on 😆

“Hello, thank you for calling.”

I revisited this video after a year and a half, and I forgot what the image was. So, I saw the image twice before relearning what it was.

“The world thinks you are fine” I saw the woman’s face after a while but I couldn’t recognise the horse at all haha I thought the horse was some distorted man’s face lol

I got "No, you didn't see the sign" which was very likely influenced by being a passenger helping someone navigate a long drive yesterday. Wonder if I'd have got the sign part right still if I hadn't just had that experience

i hilariously heard hello this is asap science and i saw two astronauts originally in the photo and i think it was the fact that i had asap science on my mind as obviously im watching your video... which made my brain deem it relevant info and made that sentence make sense by saying that like a intro

Did this video rephrase what we already know ("the brain interprets sensory input and uses things that it's experienced and learned in its interpretation") or am I missing something? Or is this not a common perspective/knowledge?

I'm reading what everyone else heard and I think I got one of the most cryptic phrases with "the wells give you a sign." One thing to mention is that at first glance I saw a woman in where the bridle was in the image. After reading that there was a horse, I immediately saw a distorted horse at the bottom. Upon seeing the full image I can now see all three interpretations. I see the horse and woman where they actually are and the other two independent of it which is quite surreal

I'm hearing "C'mon, the painting is fine!"

1st I heard "World same to you sign". After hearing the original audio, I still haven't changed what I hear.

Hello, thank you is fine!

I thought the sentence said “Well everything is fine”. My best guess is I heard that because of my own denial with my psychiatric disabilities. I’m aware I’m in denial now but during an episode I genuinely convince myself I’m fine. Problem is I’m not fine.

Sure I can see the horse and the girl now when I couldn't before, but I still see the robot girl and the dragon skull walking along the bridge in front of the city scape rotated like 120 degrees. I can still hear what I thought the original sentence was too. And still see the changed color of the checkerboard after it's shown. Something with heavy disassociation maybe since that affects consciousness? No idea. I can't recognize faces so. I dunno.

"Thanks, today's just fine!" pretty much my response when I'm under mountains of stress like today lol.

Wow! It sticks to the sign!

I feel like this is actually why I can hear and understand better when there are accurate subtitles

The last 2 syllables in the sentence sounded to me like "unsigned," which is a common term in computer science. Makes sense considering how much compsci I do :D

Hello thank you for all

I heard "wow, it seems fine" and I can't unhear it!

Now, even knowing what the picture is (though I kinda managed to see the eyes/ear/snout before the reveal) it's actually still pretty difficult to not see the picture as abstract nonsense

I’m gonna go in a mini rant: This is interesting to me because I have something called social pragmatic communication disorder (as well as the occasional hallucination caused by ptsd). I don’t inherently understand social cues, or misinterpret them. I’m often missing the context of situations, which makes sense as to why I struggle so hard in any kind of interaction(especially legal jargon, which is intentionally hard for regular people) I have difficulty making connections because to most people, all of these cues are often unspoken and coloured entirely by our experiences. So when I do or say something (that I think is a normal or correct response), it’s like that person predicting the coffee cup, but seeing a glass of water instead. It definitely throws people for a loop. Tho sometimes I do wonder how aware of it people are, because I also have a stutter and most people are shocked when I tell them, but can hear it afterward. So yeah, this video is very interesting to me. It does feel like I’m going about, experiencing life in that two tone or altered audio. I have a book of experience that tells me that’s a horse and a woman, even if I still can’t really see it. But I just keep on keeping on because it’s the only way I know. I’ll end with a quote from Komi Can’t Communicate “An important thing to remember is, just because a person has problems communicating, doesn’t mean that person doesn’t want to communicate with others.” Thanks for the insight

I heard the voice say "Space makes you slow". I can still hear "Space makes you slow.", even though I have heard the original sentence say "The man is painting a sign".

i can unsee the A and B difference but that makes the entire shadow look a lot darker when im doing it

"Hello, space is fine!" This is still what i hear after the video. I can sort of make out the other ones people got (and the one it actually was) by thinking of them when listening to it, but "Hello, space is fine!" is still my default.

I heard "hello I feel fine", and I actually feel like after the answer was revealed, I can flip back and forth in my perception, kinda like the whole Laural Yanny thing from a few years back. I really find it fascinating how priming in terms of sound can colour our perception so much.

This video is mind blowing

Hello I'm so glad you're home

I heard "No, it's safe to sign." before and even after the context. Personally I think it reveals that I always have a worry something isn't safe which does make sense I'm the oldest of my siblings. I guess it can also allude to my trust issues, but that's just my guess.

I heard "So! Thank you for calling!". Which is odd because I hate answering phonecalls OR making them. Also, I remember seeing the checkerboard image before around the time the Black and blue dress debate came up and even though I knew the checkerboard pieces were the same colour,my brain STILL perceived it to be different shades of grey!

Hello, thank you for calling

When I first heard to audio, I thought it said “Woah, this must be a sign” and reading the comments, its weird to see how others perceive things compared to myself.

I personally heard "Hey, ASAP Science!" As for what I saw in the image, 3 things. If the black is the image, it's a weird comic-like face in the left. If the white is the image, it's one of 2 things. Either a cool outline of a person crouching down holding a light or something, or it is a horned person in what would be the "arm" of the second image with long hair, a doorway on the right, and light on the floor Edit: Hey, my first guess wasn't far off. The thing on the left I said looked like a face... that was the horse's face. Not too bad as a guess! Also, weirdly despite seeing the context of that image, I still can't see it when we move back to the original

I love this channel! I always learn something cool by the end of every video. Your uploads about human perception and the mind is my favorite. Thanks ASAP science 🙏🏽💛

Hello! Thanks for your response! or No! my senses are fine!

I first heard it as "wow i saved your life" but then i heard what the comments said in reference as to the tiktoks that have multiple words and says you hear what you are reading

I recently earned my psych degree and one of the courses I took was sensation and perception- and it totally changed how I perceived psychology (pun intended!!). The visual and auditory illusions these examples explain are great starting point for explaining the mental and emotional ones we deal with all the time but are unaware of! Biases and heuristics are amazing fields to look into because we deal with these daily, not including distortions for disorders! Amazing videos guys keep it up 😍

“Hello, thinking is fun!” Bc we were talking about consciousness and also it sounded like a sentient robot, horror movie vibes lol

"Then, Spacey was sighing", then after like 20 replays of it I heard "friends made you a sign" or "friends painted a sign". As for the picture, in the bottom right quadrant/ right half I see of the side profile of a woman/ feminine face looking up to the top left corner or center top of the image, and along her line of sight I see a male/ masculine face wearing maybe a marching band or similar hat and facing the camera/audience, head tilted 45degrees to his right or my left.

Good one.

"Oooh, what you see" is what I heard. Crazy and cool stuff! On a similar note about the colors, this is probably also why when you tint an image with any given color, your brain can still tell which parts are supposed to be red or blue or green, because they see them in relation to others, even when the _actual_ color is actually a grey without that color in it at all! It does the same thing as the image of shadowy tiles in the video. I think that one exists in particular because the sun tints the world around us in different tones depending on time of day and weather conditions. We still need to be able to identify colors in relation to each other and identify shapes and find faces. The black and white photo makes me think of those visual illusion drawings where you can see either a little girl or an old woman.

Great subject! I thought the message said, "wow, thank your phone." I know that doesn't make sense, but it was so fast that was the best I could do. The picture I thought was a rapper/rocker singer with a microphone, leaning to the left, the round dot on the upper left the microphone, under it his hand in white, mid right his pants have a bandana hanging out. His head and face look a little funny and smashed.

How did you transform the speech sounds so that they became unrecognizable? I would like to generate some of my own. Thanks!

The book The Developing Mind (I've only read part) explains consciousness in a very interesting way, would recommend! Also, it explains that the mind isn't just the brain, but the neural pathways as a whole system heavily including some parts of the body like the gut and heart.

About the Spanish aspect of this video, two things. I can tell from experience that knowledge of a sentence clarifies immensely the understanding of what's heard. Many times I don't understand a thing of what a song in English says, then I find the lyrics, and magically I understand everything. The other thing, regarding you learning Spanish, first, congratulations. Second, watching TV or videos with subtitles in the same language helps a lot to get the meanings; I suppose it will be easier in Spanish, as the writing is phonetically close to the speaking. Third, in Spanish, Toronto is stressed in the second "o," not in the last. It doesn't mean something else as you said it, just sounds funny ha ha. Most important, and harder to explain, is that in Spanish we have two verbs that mean "to be," and they are "ser" and "estar." If you want to speak about permanent things, like being Canadian, you use "ser" (soy canadiense). If you mean something not permanent, like being tired, you use "estar" (estoy cansado). Of course, there are nuances and little details in this general rule, like, when you speak about something/someone being alive or dead, you use "estar," the non-permanent verb. Quite a philosophical statement in a grammatical characteristic. Good luck, y después seguimos conversando en español. 🖖😁

"wells, i speak to a sign" was mine! Very interesting

"we only have fives senses" but i have a sixth outside of that, a sense that tells me when someone is staring, even if i can't see them when they do.

Being You is so fantastic. Really glad you were inspired to make this. That book impacted me a lot too. Anil Seth is a great writer and an even greater thinker. If you haven't, also check out The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms.

"The man is telling the time" was my guess for the sentence. I could also see the woman with a hat but the rest was just random space to me before the reveal. Fascinating!

Very interesting.

0:22 "hello thank you for calling"

"Yo *estoy* muy cansado" you can also ignore the "yo" something like "estoy muy cansado" but very good so far! keep at it! And visit México *on* your way to Colombia!