Have you ever tried playing a record backwards because someone has told you it holds MYSTERIOUS messages...?

David John Oates, an Australian researcher, originally coined the phrase "Reverse Speech" and is most often credited with discovering the phenomenon.  Described as another form of human communication, he states that "language is bi-level, forward and reverse. As the human brain constructs the sounds of speech, it forms those sounds in such a way that two messages are delivered simultaneously. One forwards, which is the conscious mind speaking, and the other in reverse, which is the unconscious mind speaking"..

Oates doesn't claim a paranormal origin for reverse speech, but rather believes it is a natural function of human communication that is present with us since birth. In fact, he believes that children speak backward before they learn to speak forward - only we hear it as infantile goo-goos.

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