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Originally posted by a psychologist, posting about Stairway to Heaven
The "Satanic" messages are a psychological illusion called pareidolia. When you are interacting with something very vague, for example an image, or in this case a sound, people are generally in a state of increased suggestability. So if you are told there is a "Satanic" message hidden in a barely audible sound, then you hear it, your mind will make things fit and you will really believe it. Very simply, you are hearing what you want to hear. Another popular example of pareidolia is people seeing images of Jesus in their toast. Vague images being misinterpreted.[/b]