Lavender Town Syndrome?

I hate to burst your bubble, but the Lavender Town Syndrom is not real. While it is true that people might get headaches and feel uneasy after listening, the main reason for that would be because they believe it to be true. Almost everyone knows about the Lavender Town Syndrom creepy pasta, and that eeriness sticks to you as you listen to the song. If you believe it will make you feel uneasy, it probably will. The human mind is pretty powerful.

It is a very interesting creepy pasta, but I highly doubt that Game Freak would actually still exist today if one of their games had triggered mass suicides. The games are tested before being brought to the public, and if the song could trigger suicides, mental illnesses, or even just plain headaches, they would have noticed and simply changed the music. If not, just imagine what kind of trouble they would get in to.

 

Actually, a placebo isn't the only reason people get headaches and such when listening to Lavender Town music!

If I remember correctly the tune was fixed so these were only in the theme in the original Japanese Red and Green games, but the theme contained binaural beats. They can have different effects that range from drowsiness and hallucinations. They affect everyone differently, some people feel negative effects, some positive, some not at all.

The actual Lavender Town Syndrome is of course just a creepypasta, and no the music did not cause children to kill themselves.

 

Some feel at ease listening to lavender town song playing, including when it's 8-bit sounding, It might not scare a lot of people but some do and they said the felt cold, but they know it's just them. It's not real :|

 

Well, the thing is, they don't know it's just them. Those people just assume everything that's on the internet is true, which is not the case. With Lavender Town, there is actually very little proof against it, and it seems creepy enough to be a possibility. Those two things make creepypastas like the Lavender Town Syndrome so popular, and because it is popular, people are more likely to assume it is true.

 

Still, it's really interesting how this became a "phenomenon" of sorts. Such an eerie track within the plethora of upbeat, "feel good" tunes I think was quite jarring to most people and made it all the more eerie, so I'm kind of not surprised this spiralled into such a huge controversy.