Geek Habitat

If you’ve never encountered the Reverse Speech website in your Net wanderings, you need to check it out. It is more than a little unnerving. The basic premise is our unconscious thoughts or desires are evident in our speech patterns, when examined in reverse of normal speech.

One of the examples is the voice of a purported business man speaking during a meeting. When his speech is reversed and slowed down, however, he clearly says, “I am so full of shit.”

Anyway, go check it out. It’s eerie, but knowing the untapped power of the human mind I’m inclined to believe there’s a grain of truth to the concept. What do you think — is it pure horse-hockey?

There’s an interesting aspect of this, which is how I was first introduced to the website — it’s analyzing the reverse speech of children, most of whom are pre-verbal… or are they?

With three cats in the house, one of which meows often and intently, I’d like to see this guy find human speech in, literally, a cat’s meow.

“Clean my litterbox,” is one of the first phrases I’d expect to hear… that or, “We are staging a coup!”