Report ID 3045671

Dr. Krill

The Gibb council is now accepting my reports, though, I have become aware that they are banned from publication on the Vrul home world. Since I am already slated for termination, have no problem calling the Vrul council a Fascist authoritarian dictatorship attempting to censor information from the people and rule by fear. I say this because, what are they going to do to me? Call my termination order faster? I do thank the Gibb council for allowing me to begin publishing my works again, as I think this information is most beneficial for nonhuman readers to understand humans more readily.

I recently experienced an important lesson in the area of the human supernatural sense of danger, which, to my delight, produced a scientific explanation for their behavior. For the longest time we have known that some humans seem to have the uncanny ability of detecting danger before it even occurs and seemingly without sight or sound of the danger itself. Well, at least in one case, I have found the answer.

First you will require an anatomy lesson. The human ear can detect a diverse range of sound frequencies from around 20 to 200,00 Hz though most humans' hearing deteriorates over time leaving that range a little smaller. However, it has long been known that humans, while they cannot hear sounds lower than this, they can at least detect it. These frequencies are known to humans as Infrasound, and generally require large animals {elephants and whales} to make the sounds organically. However, machines, natural disasters, and large speakers have the ability to produce the sounds as well.

You see that powerful machines powerful animals, and natural disasters are the only things strong enough to produce such a sound, for this reason, we might assume that the things that can make these noises are powerful or manmade.

Now we come to the interesting part of my report. Exposure to such sounds have been known to cause humans panic, paranoia, nausea, and even visual hallucinations.

Techniques like this have been used in horror movies for the past two thousand years to create a sense of unease.

Historical records indicate a movie from a film festival in 2002 where the director admitted to using a continual sound at around 27 Hz through the first twenty to thirty minutes of his already controversial and graphic movie. While the graphic nature of the movie was such that some audiences might not have been able to stomach it, most humans probably would have handled it just fine knowing what they were getting themselves into. Accept that multiple people threw up, some of the goers passed out and others required immediate medical attention. Questions were raised left and right to the graphic nature of the movie until it was found out that this sound was being used to unsettle the viewers.

Sounds within a similar range have even been used for riot control in the past, as it is difficult to riot or protest when you are feeling terribly nauseous. Sound is more difficult to focus than that of light, so it is optimal for an affect over a large area with a large amount of people.

Anyone can produce such a sound and such an affect if they have a large enough set of speakers.

Now, you might ask. How does one explain the mechanics of such a response?

We know that Drev can hear sounds as low as 16hz and do not experience the same affect as humans despite having the most similar auditory system.

The answer to that lies in the powerful nature of these sort of sounds in themselves.

We already know that in order to create a sound this deep you need a powerful animal, machine, or natural disaster. When these sounds are made, they are forced to travel through the air just like any other sound in waves just like everything else.

Even though human beings cannot detect the sound itself, the waves still have to move through their bodies.

Without an explanation, the brain can still feel the body moving, but it cannot tell from what source the movement is coming. In fact, this causes a harsh vertical vibration that can cause eyes to wobble inside their sockets putting pressure on part of the eye and causing visual hallucinations.

If you were not aware, strong up and down motions have been known to cause nausea in humans, though that is not the only explanation for the nausea that might be experienced when humans are subjected to infrasound. Furthermore, anxiety and paranoia can be easily explained through the disconnect between what the body is feeling and what the brain is sensing. A sudden knowledge that one is moving and experiencing visual artifact without a sound or sight to go along with it?

The human brain is not particularly good at handling things that it cannot explain and will often make up other explanations.

Now I might also take this time to make the argument that sudden paranoia when subjected to infrasound is actually an evolutionary adaptation for humans.

Remember how I mentioned that natural disaster gives of infrasound, this being things like avalanches, earthquakes and rockslides?

When hearing these sounds, a sudden sense of impending doom might be just the thing to get a human running in the opposite direction just in time to avoid getting crushed. If not that it at least stars the sympathetic nervous system firing early before action must be taken to avoid the situation. This might also go for humans meting large animals capable of producing these sort of sounds. Most animals these days are not large enough, and do not produce such sounds, however, back when humans were still experiencing one of the ice ages and before that, large animals were not yet extinct and still roamed the earth, these including mammoths, cousins to the elephants.

Would it not make sense then that evolutionary adaptation allowed for an early warning system in humans to avoid both natural disasters and large, dangerous animals?

Now this may be just a theory, as humans are the dominant species on their planet now and tend to handle both natural disasters and large animals with ease, however this brings us onto our next issue, and that issue being infrasound caused by manmade machines.

For the longest time, humans have believed in ghosts, experienced shadows and haunting and even objects moving without cause to move. However, I propose a different explanation.

For instance, I heard the story of a man who worked at an office who one day began experiencing extreme paranoia and even started seeing apparitions while he sat at his desk. He was convinced that he was haunted and productivity went down, however he later discovered that the newly installed fan at the center of the room was giving off infrasound that was being concentrated specifically at his work station.

He never saw any ghosts, but the paranoia and the visual hallucinations caused by the infrasound was enough to make him feel as if he was.

Think about this for a moment? If a human lives in a location and claims to often experience feelings of paranoia nausea and even being watched. Maybe even sightings of ghostly figures, could it be, rather than being haunted, they are simply seeing artifacts from their own visual systems as their bodies are shaken up and down.

For the humans who might be reading this, and potentially experiencing this. Do you live next to large machinery? Does your building contain large machinery, and are there large fans in your vicinity. If this is the case, you might want to consider the reality that you may be suffering from attacks of infrasound rather than the supernatural. Follow me more closely into this delve into the rabbit hole, and you might consider that objects moving on their own could also be explained by the deep vibrations produced by these sounds. If a bottle or a dish is already sitting close to the end of the table, a continual vibration might be more than enough to tip it over the edge.

If you live in a city, near a construction sights, generators or heavy equipment this might be more likely to happen to you than it would out in the country. It might at least be enough to consider the idea that maybe what they are hearing isn't do to any supernatural sense of danger, but an adaptational ability to detect and respond early to something they cannot either see or hear.

In this case, while it may seem strange, it is important to indulge a human's danger sense even though there seems to be no visual or auditory explanation.

Infrasound does not account for all the times that humans might experience this, but it is an interesting and important point to examine.

Either way I always suggest following a Human's instincts even if they won't follow them themselves. While humans have a more acute danger sense than most aliens, being a younger species than most, the often chose to ignore these sensations and continue onwards assuming their own instincts to be wrong.

Just the other day we were out exploring a new planet, and this same situation occurred. The humans started to feel very uneasy and panicky. I was under the impression we should just leave, but they brushed it off.

Against my warnings, I might add!

Let it not be said that Dr. krill was EVER the reason for out immanent death.

I vow one of these days, that the last words on my lips are going to be, "I TOLD YOU SO."

Either way, as it turned out the infrasound, which our Drev could actually hear, though she was having trouble, was actually caused by the large algae eating herbivore that inhabits the planet. As large as humans extinct dinosaurs. Angering the creature could easily have been enough to cause it to charge and immediately trample us and we still would have had no defense against it.

Even thought it may seem irrational.

Humans often have rational explanations for their fears.