Why we can hear the words even though it’s just a bunch of chaotic piano sounds We’ve all heard the original song multiple times, and our brains have memorized that when certain sounds are in a certain order, that’s the song. now when midi files are created from mp3s, they interpret those sounds into notes to be played on piano (or whatever instrument). every single sound. so basically a piano is trying to preform the vocals, drums, the backing vocals, the real piano, the audio effects, and literally everything else that obviously creates a weird cacophony of piano smashing. however when our brains hear those smashings, they get kinda confused. because those sounds are bohemian rhapsody’s sounds. they’re the exact same sounds. but they don’t sound right…. but they’re sounds…? what’s going on? and in an attempt to make it stop sounding so weird and wrong, they put in the sounds that we know are absolutely know are supposed to be there. these are usually vocals, because our brains are already good at hearing human voices, even when distorted. we’ve all been hearing them our whole lives, after all. so our brains helpful supply what voice we should be hearing. but it’s not actually there. we’re literally hallucinating because we’ve listened to bohemian rhapsody so many times.