<P> The iconic dispersive prism of the album's cover purportedly reflects the movie's transition from black - and - white Kansas to Technicolor Oz; further examples include music changes at dramatic moments, such as the tornado near the start of the movie aligning with the screaming section of "The Great Gig in the Sky", and thematic alignments such as the scarecrow dance during "Brain Damage". This synergy effect has been described as an example of synchronicity, defined by the psychologist Carl Jung as a phenomenon in which coincidental events "seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality ." </P> <P> Detractors argue that the phenomenon is the result of the mind's tendency to think it recognizes patterns amid disorder by discarding data that does not fit . Psychologists refer to this tendency as apophenia, or confirmation bias . In this theory, a Dark Side of the Rainbow enthusiast will focus on matching moments while ignoring the greater number of instances where the film and the album do not correspond . </P> <P> Pink Floyd band members have repeatedly said that the reputed phenomenon is coincidence . In an interview for the 25th anniversary of the album, guitarist / vocalist David Gilmour denied the album was intentionally written to be synchronized with the film, saying "Some guy with too much time on his hands had this idea of combining Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon ." On an MTV special about Pink Floyd in 2002, the band dismissed any relationship between the album and the movie, saying there were no means of reproducing the film in the studio at the time they recorded the album . </P> <P> Dark Side of the Moon audio engineer Alan Parsons in 2003 dismissed the supposed effect: </P>

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