more noise and anti-noise
We have tickets to X and Rollins Band on Wednesday night. All-original personnel in both bands this tour. Dizzy with anticipation.
All my life I’ve put my hearing-aid in the second I woke up. But this summer I’ve been leaving it out while I’m fiddling around the house in the morning. Mister Husband is still asleep, so there’s no one I need to hear. Mornings are pretty quiet times anyway, but this is Big Silence. I’m finding that temporarily removing one more sense concentrates the beginning of my day.
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I knew a professor of education at the University of North Alabama who used to do that.
You know, it seems like being able to turn off one's hearing would come in handy in other situations too -- for example, when someone next to you is snoring.
Posted by: Clancy | August 5, 2006 1:17 PM
I sleep with earplugs, even though I now sleep alone and in a pretty quiet part of downtown Sparkle City. Now I can't sleep without them. Apparently I've gotten used to the feeling of being closed in with my only own bodily sounds like circulation and breathing.
"We have tickets to X and Rollins Band on Wednesday night"
You might not need your hearing aid on Wednesday night.
Posted by: George | August 5, 2006 5:13 PM
It is helpful if someone else is snoring. But it also makes you a terrible roommate (if you are me), because you don’t ever hear yourself snoring, either. I snore so loudly that with my hearing-aid in, I wake myself up.
Re X & Rollins: Heh. But then I’d completely miss the higher-pitched stuff, so I’ll leave it in. ;) This is a digital Phonak aid that actually throttles down when there’s excessive noise. Handy for preserving what hearing I have, I guess, but annoying when I want to seriously rock out.
Posted by: Krista | August 5, 2006 10:16 PM