I've been too science heavy lately, so let's turn this to the world of entertainment.
The Dark Side of the Rainbow. If you play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz it magically synchs up. Can't say I'm surprised that this was brought up. The myth of this synchronicity is perfectly suited towards the mindset of those that are willing to accept that 15 cool moments of magic overrides the 5 million things that mean nothing. Let's call this the Dark Side of the Confirmation Bias. For the most part those that believe this are huge Pink Floyd fans. There ain't a whole lot of die hard Oz fans that light up a doobie and think the movie was actually predictive programming for the album. At least the timeline is right.
For all the places that you can find those that swear how real this is you can find the other side that says it's outright bullshit or more commonly that "it has its moments, but it's just coincidence". Here's a quickie blog post:
http://kmuw.org/post/musical-space-dark-side-rainbow
The full blown urban legend states the album was purposefully made as a soundtrack for the movie. This is blown out of the water immediately by the fact that the album and the movie aren't even the same length. They aren't even that close, 43 minutes vs. 102 minutes. The defense to that sounds just like a numerologist trying to justify bizarre number generating gyrations, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
The real experience has to be shared in a manner similar to what I have. You need at least two people that are hard core believers, one person that never heard of it before they are trying to convince, and one devil's advocate to point out the flaws.
Mostly the information out there points to starting the album at exactly the right moment, usually the MGM lion's third roar. There's another strike to the theory. That's not 100% in agreement. If you're talking about it without actually doing it you have an escape hatch. You didn't do it just right. That's why you missed the full experience.
And what about the extra 60 minutes? Some say you need to start the album over. But exactly when without the lion roaring cue? This is why the test has two believers. We're building up points that they probably can't come in to total agreement on. Like gematria wizards not being able to agree on if the entire language is encoded or just the phrases that they make up. The skeptic devil's advocate can help point this out.
For an example, the good witch shows up in a bubble just as Money lyricizes "Don't give me all that do goody good bullshit". That's all fine, but it's gematria style thinking just because the word "good" was sung. The believers will point this out to the newbie. The newbie might be awestruck. Or (maybe with a little skeptical help) have it pointed out that it would probably make a helluva lot more sense if she was being whisked away in a bubble instead of arriving to match with "Don't give me..."
In the gematria narrative I saw about this somebody suggested that the album was actually made to synch with The Sound of Music. Apparently completely missing that the Pink Floyd band member that said that was clearly joking. Another band member said something like this synching myth was created by someone with way too much free time on their hands. You betcha. Other synch tests have been tried with mixed results. You can find matches in lots of long concept albums and movies as long as you're willing to let your confirmation bias be your guide.
I haven't heard of anyone that decided to dedicate their life to the Dark Side of the Rainbow being the most meaningful thing to their existence, but I suppose it's happened. Probably not the best way to spend your time. I prefer not to waste my time on manufactured reality. And being told that actual reality is manufactured while the manufactured reality is instead real. Which means this also serves as the Psychological Projection award for February.
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