Can you also hear the sound of this mute gif?

First of all, pay close attention to the gif below. Turn off your computer speakers or mute your cell phone and press play🇧🇷

So, did you hear anything? O tweetposted by user Lisa DeBruine, who is also a researcher at the University of Glasgow, has been making noise – pardon the pun – in the virtual world. Is that, despite the moving image does not have any kind of sound, 70% of people who responded to a poll on Twitter said they could hear the noise of the swaying tower when it hits the ground.

The gif, “resurrected” by Lisa last weekend, originates from 2008, was created by the Happy Toast website and posted for the first time, that same year, on the social network reddit🇧🇷 after the buzzsome scientific theories are being launched to try to explain the effects that the image causes in the human body.

One of them is the phenomenon of synesthesia, that is, when a sensation in one of the five senses, such as vision, involuntarily triggers another sensation in another sense – such as hearing, for example. It’s as if our senses were so intertwined that one ends up stimulating the other all the time. The same thing happens with the gifs below. Are you going to say that you can’t imagine the noise of the explosion or the clapping of hands?

Another explanation is due to the movement of the camera, which, when it shows tremors, causes a direct reflection of sensations in the hearing – in addition, our psychology, from time to time, induces us to hear sounds that do not really exist.