Is it normal that songs played backwards scare the hell out of me?

subliminal messages...

Don't ever listen to "Stairway To Heaven" backwards. Scared the sh*t out of me!

I think it might be because the sounds are recognizable, but make no sense to you. So for a moment its like you have lost the power of understanding as your brain tries to figure out what it is hearing.

one time a bunch of friends and i were listening to old beatles records and we decided to play "lucy in the skye with diamonds" backwards for fun, and i swear to god it kept saying lucifur lucifur repaetedly... well i heard it three times and we all got freaked out and stoped. omg so creepy.

Who plays songs backwards??

Nope, not to me. Is it completely irrational? Did something trigger it in thd past? Some songs sound beautiful played backwards.

It probably has something to do with what you've been told before-hand about listening to backward music.

Granted it sounds "weird" duh! but, did you know that as a species, we all more or less have an instinct that repels us from things, actions, noises, etc. that are unfamiliar to us?

I've listened to music backwards before and felt spooked b/c an idiot older friend who's a religious prick told me that the devil and such delivers his messages in backward music... so very ignorant of a 35 year old to say back then.... poor fool

It happens to me all the time where I am just on Youtube and something pops up saying satanic sayings in "this" song when played backwards, so like of course being curious and all i click on it and then it is like I lose my train of thought for a few seconds while listening to it, my heart starts pounding, my eyes start watering and i just get this very odd feeling in my gut. Like I am not supposed to be hearing it.

I am thinkin that it might matter if the music is intentionally backmasked or not. I record original music and i have jokingly backmasked messages such as "Mow the lawn" and "Turn off the lights before you go to bed. And that should not scare anybody. If a song is intentionally backmasked with Satanic mssages and you hear them. It may or may not scare a person in trying to understand why someone would do that, However if nobody touched or modified the original song in any way and then while playing backwards it began making clearly identifiable statements of any subject matter, Then ya' that can be pretty scary. especially if it refers to you by name, oh ya.and tells you what to do. Watch out buddy because. That is definately not normal and yes i have seen it occur.

I get the exact same feeling as the original poster about backwards music!

You should listen to the reversed version of Blue Jay Way by the Beatles... It's super scary and btw my eyes also start tearing when I listen to backmasked songs :D

I think they're cool!

In the days of records we played prince backwards during the cold war and it kept saying don't worry everybody has a bomb some other mish mash too but the ones with messages terrify me too

I've heard the Dora theme song backwards before, as well as Stairway to Heaven.

NEVER, never do that!!!! It just freaks the crap out of me! And I know it would too!

I love hearing songs backwards. It always makes me laugh!

Never listen to Boards of Canada, then. :P

But seriously, I think it's pretty normal.

Opeth? Atonement anyone? That's a wonderful track played eitherways.