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Yea, I do. and it's a fairly complicated series. To put it bluntly, the Internet was a real world in it's own right, and when people die they go there and evolve. Lain was backwards though, an AI like Aura or Morganna taking a human form with false memories. This bad guy though created a program that would merge the two worlds and let him be God, but Lain pretty much killed herself and released a program that restored everything like Aura did at the end of Quarantine.

Think about the sound heard when Bear, Mimiru and Tsukasa are at the Upside Down Dungeon where they meet Harold. I know it's not much but it might help a little.

do you meen the area with the broken man that's data was all... whats the word... corrupted i guess. that area?

Yes.

The sound is heard when they get close to Herald. A friend of mine told me the sound might have meant that they triggered an event.

um, since this has already been irrelevantly bumped, can I ask further about this A note-seizure connection that was mentioned on the first page?

Auratwilight wrote: Sure, anyone can hear the A tone, but it's the highest note that the human eardrum can hear, and as such, it's faint and slips into the human subconsciousness (actual scientific fact) unnoticable because it's a suggestive tone meant for aversion tactics.

i'd like to see this scientific proof (not doubting, necessarily, but it's interesting and i'd like to look into it further.

The infected areas that have the "A" note sounds like a banshee screaming. LOL!

Nice theories! I never thought THIS deep into the comas before...XD

The show does a good job with the mystery/conspiracy.

Now, at first, I didn't believe it when everyone here said that you could hear that note in the infected dungeons of .hack. I had no recollection of ever hearing it before. Ever. And I'm right at the part where you fight Corbenik in Quarantine.

...Buuuut. ^^; I got a new controller so I could play Quarantine, and I went into the infected dungeon where you face off with Cubia for the last time. I heard it perfectly. o_o; I suppose that I used to always freak out at boss dungeons, so I was so focused in on playing the game to such an extent... Once I heard it, I felt a vague feeling of deja vu. Perhaps I'd heard it previously, but my mind dismissed it.

I suppose I can attest for this theory, then. If you're deeply focused on the game, you don't hear the note, and you can be drawn in hook, line, and sinker.

Are you sure the note in the dungeons is the same as the one in Liminality, though? When I caught it, it sounded different from the A in C Major scale in Liminality. I don't have the greatest ears yet, but... Well, to compare it to two people singing, the Liminality note sounded like someone singing using their "chest voice" (or singing normally, I suppose) and the one played during dungeons sounds like someone's singing the note in falsetto ("head voice").

And how can the note in Liminality possibly be the highest one the human ear can hear? o_O That's really odd, because I think we sing higher in madrigal choir. The constant ringing in my own ears seems to be higher.

People come together to put their theories to the test. Impressive.

Satu wrote:And how can the note in Liminality possibly be the highest one the human ear can hear? o_O That's really odd, because I think we sing higher in madrigal choir. The constant ringing in my own ears seems to be higher.

the guy who mentioned that also mentioned that in liminality, they took the note down an octave so that people wtcing it wouldn't go catatonic, they seem to have a problem with that in Japan, ever since the infamous pokemon seizure episode, most if not all anime shown on tv there have a little warning to keep a light on and not sit too close to the tv etc. anyway, what that person said probably is true, that the "A" note is the highest that the human ear can hear, just not the "A" in the octave they have it at in .hack//

I believe your theory may be right DarkAngel! I have long thought along the same lines. I was only missing some minor information. Piece one for me was her incredible hearing cuased by intensive studies of music. Piece two was that in The Legend of The Twilight Bracelet. They explain how the people were tricked into believing themselves dead (A.K.A. the comas) Third piece was that the bracelet was protecting Kite so it probably generated its own note to save Kite from coma. ... thats about all the info and stuff i had. So, Good Job!