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I also agree with the other's explenation. I would like to add that some T.V stations put there commercials on different levels, so you have to turn it down so you don't hurt your ears.

I also hate being in a sound proof booth. I get pain in my ears. And loud static sounds. It's freaky for me.
 
Abby Normal said:
I also agree with the other's explenation. I would like to add that some T.V stations put there commercials on different levels, so you have to turn it down so you don't hurt your ears.

I also hate being in a sound proof booth. I get pain in my ears. And loud static sounds. It's freaky for me.
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Pain? What kind of pain? Is it like your ears popping or what?
 
Abby Normal said:
It's like sharp needles. (Don't mean to be graphic, sorry)
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No, no not at all! It's just that I never knew that complete silence could be so uncomfortable for a hearing person...You're being a good teacher already!
 
Thank you so much. I have been a teacher's aid for most of my life and I am always nervous about my teaching ability.

When you are surrounded by total silence, when you haven't had that in your entire life, you get spooked out by the sounds your brain "blocks" out. You see, us hearing people take for granted the back ground noise you strain to hear. Our brain just blocks it out after awhile and replaces it with whatever is loudest.
When you take away the sound you are left with, creeky doors, branches against windows, and eery winds blowing. This is all pretty unsettling if you don't hear it all the time.
 
Abby Normal said:
Thank you so much. I have been a teacher's aid for most of my life and I am always nervous about my teaching ability.

When you are surrounded by total silence, when you haven't had that in your entire life, you get spooked out by the sounds your brain "blocks" out. You see, us hearing people take for granted the back ground noise you strain to hear. Our brain just blocks it out after awhile and replaces it with whatever is loudest.
When you take away the sound you are left with, creeky doors, branches against windows, and eery winds blowing. This is all pretty unsettling if you don't hear it all the time.
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True that, but then again, silence is a wonderful thing, so exploit it if you can!!

It provides solace from a loud hearing world and gives your ears rest, if you get what I mean!!
 
wow really interesting ... i never knew abt hearing ppl to block out the quiet sounds out so when tehy finally hears it it becomes creepy... hmm cool thank you!
 
When the "digital communications breakthrough" ( ha ha ) made it possible to elimintate background noise and static and stuff from between words on the telephones. They quickly learned that was no good. Us hearing people's brains just find something wrong with a telephone without background noise.
This is especially true with digital cellphones. Artificial noise is added to the telephone call so that our subconcious can tell that we still have a connection with the calling party.

Not hearing something is just as important as hearing something sometimes. Like when parents get freaked out when the kids are quiet (they must be doing something bad !)
 
fyborg said:
Hearing 24/7 all of the sudden would be scary for me.
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Hearing people have their ears "on" 24/7, and have the ability to hear everything at all times BUT our brains "filter" out much of the sound, so we aren't even aware of routine background noises. It's a matter of adjustment over time.

It's kind of like your sense of smell. Your nose is "on" all the time, 24/7 but you don't notice every smell in your routine environment. Only when a "new" or exceptionally strong odor hits your nose do you become aware of an odor. That's also the reason why people who live in very stinky, pet urine drenched or heavy smoker hazed houses aren't bothered by the smell. They become used to it, and their sensory connection in the brain filters it out.

Visually, your brain filters out backgrounds unless you focus on them. For example, if you are outside and watching a bird build a nest in a tree, the rest of the yard is "out of focus" and not noticable even though you still "see" it. Think of a camera with adjustable lens. You can adjust the lens to focus on the foreground to emphasize your subject, and blur the background so it doesn't detract from the subject.

Our senses are more than just the organs that receive the outside stimuli--the brain's function of interpreting those sensations is very important also.
 
hulsw said:
... Not hearing something is just as important as hearing something sometimes. Like when parents get freaked out when the kids are quiet (they must be doing something bad !)
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Very true! If the kids are yelling and bumping around in their room, no problem. If they become totally silent, mom yells, "What's going on in there?!" :P
 
Reba said:
Very true! If the kids are yelling and bumping around in their room, no problem. If they become totally silent, mom yells, "What's going on in there?!" :P
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Thats precisely what happens at home!! (especially with me, because I happen to be a chatterbox!!)

Wow!!

Kashveera
 
kashveera said:
Thats precisely what happens at home!! (especially with me, because I happen to be a chatterbox!!)

Wow!!

Kashveera
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:giggle: I can believe it!

Too much noise can be overwhelming, especially if it comes from multiple sources...one of the reasons I hate it when students won't settle down.

And too little can be overwhelming for hearing people..
 
fyborg said:
:giggle: I can believe it!

Too much noise can be overwhelming, especially if it comes from multiple sources...one of the reasons I hate it when students won't settle down.

And too little can be overwhelming for hearing people..
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Hey Fyborg, thanks, I am sure you are one chatterbox too!!

Oh me as well, but you can imagine the noise with 600/800 students in one lecture venue, I could cry, because normally you wouldn't know where to turn your head!!

I like my moments of silence, although I love escaping from the silent world, to experience the joy of noise!! (HAHAHA!!)

Kashveera
 
kashveera said:
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I like my moments of silence...
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Funny, I used to enjoy that when I had my HA. Now with my CI, I don't seek it anymore. Why? The only thing I can think of is that I don't get tired anymore listening all day.
 
how do people sleep with so much noises going on? i remembered one time i tried to sleep with cochlear implant and i heard too many noises and people told me at bedtime is usually when its most quiet. im not talking abt creaking on floor or pipes cracking or buzzing sounds from Ref. im talking abt cars, animals, noises outside. i remember how i wake up from thunder and that time i didnt wear c.i. so how can hearing people sleep through that? those are not exactly quiet sounds so its not something to filter out like u guys were talking abt earlier in the thread. those sounds im talking abt are loud types and i have seen people slept right through it. how?
 
SpiceHD said:
i know that closed door make noises sound a bit muffled and opened door allow more louder noises... but im wondering... partly open door does that change the volume of noises?
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Not only does it affect the volume, it also makes the sounds reflect differently (so it sounds slightly different at different angles).

SpiceHD said:
I notice sometime hearing like to turn up volume on one channel on tv but turn down other channel.. why? If hearing people can hear tv on a bit lower volume so why bother turning it up?
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Different channels broadcast with different volumes. Around here, TV Land is quieter than the Hallmark channel, for example. Other channels blast the ads louder than the shows.

SpiceHD said:
Suppose you have a mustang car exactly same as other person's car (same engine, same model, same year etc). and both of u turn ur back on car and have someone turn on engine on one of those car... can u tell which car is yours or other person? or do they sound same?
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Nope. I don't even care about this anyway...

SpiceHD said:
Do big airplane sound different than small airplane? (see i understand small airplane is quieter than big airplane but... waht i m curious abt is.. suppose big airplane is far away and small airplane is a bit closer can u tell which one is bigger by just hearing it?)
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Perhaps, if the engines worked differently--sometimes a smaller plane is louder because its engine makes more noise.

SpiceHD said:
And one more question... how loud is a gunshot? one time a while ago a person told me that person heard gunshot and pointed abt 6 blocks away. I was like holy cow! its that LOUD?!? if it was that loud how can hearing people stand it? especially cops if they use it?
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So loud that you can go HoH if you don't use earplugs with a rifle.

SpiceHD said:
and how far can hearing people hear the sound? With cochlear implant i can only hear the room sounds and sometime hallway sounds. any farther than that and i wont hear it.
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Well, that depends. I can hear a whisper or pindrop on the other side of a room, and I can hear conversations from the next room. It would depend on how loud the sound is--I can hear a gunshot over a mile away, for example.

I hope this answered your questions.
 
I'm lucky I can take off my hearing aids whenever I want pure peace and quiet sleep
 
well......for the first question, if a door is halfway closed then the sound waves are coming in through that portion of the door that is open. depending on where they bounce, you might be able to hear things or not. then with the car, i don't think that you would be able to tell. then the airplane, well it depends on the distance of the airplane i guess. large airplanes make a louder sound than smaller ones so if it was close, like just a bit ahead of the small airplane, then the sound waves coming from the large airplane's engines would be louder than the ones coming from the small airplane. its just a matter of how far away the sound is. then with the gunshot ive never heard one upclose. but i have on a t.v. show. but that doesn't count. well im guessing that they would be pretty loud since ppl have to use earmuffsk, that muffle the sound of loud sounds so that the eardrum doesn't get damged, when using a gun in target practice. im guessing that the cops have earplugs, or they are just used to the sound of a gun.
edit. : sry. forgot about the t.v. question. i guess we do that to just drown everything else out. we do the same thing with ipods and c.d. players, just crank up that volume full blast. lol. but i don't do that. i usually turn the volume down so i don't get my eardrums damaged.
 
SpiceHD said:
how do people sleep with so much noises going on? ... those sounds im talking abt are loud types and i have seen people slept right through it. how?
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People can become used to even loud noises, if they are the same kind of noises every night.

When Hubby was in the Navy, his berthing area (bunk) on one ship was near the after-steering screws (large propellors), that churned (turning in the water and out, with the waves) all night. But he was tired, and became used to the noises and the motion of the ship bouncing up and down.

On another ship, he slept every night on the deck (floor) of his office because it didn't rock as much as the berthing area. (That was to reduce his sea-sickness.) But his office was very noisey from the constant loud diesel generators. But he got used to it, and could sleep.

It is really the brain adjusting to make it possible for sleep.
 
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