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Musings...
Jul. 3rd, 2007 06:32 pmOdd thoughts that have been running through my head of late:
About the concert last week. Yes, I enjoyed the concert, but maybe I'm just weird but I thought the music was way too loud. I like loud music, but not so loud that you can't make out what's being said or sung. Maybe it's just my odd sense of hearing or the fact that things said sometimes take a moment for my brain to decipher it. Not real sure, all I know is that the volume on everything was turned up so loud that I only made out about half of the spoken words and the only songs I picked out lyrics to where the ones that I already knew. Wish I'd had my ear plugs with me. Then, maybe, I'd have been able to understand things a bit better. Yes, I did pick out the beats and most of the music, but with the ear plugs I'd have been able to make out the lyrics as well and so much of it would not have become so much loud white noise or static to my brain.
Yes, for those of you who didn't realize it, I do seem to have a problem with my hearing that regular hearing tests don't detect. Most hearing tests check only to see if you can hear certain tones. They do not test to see how well your brain processes what you hear. If you've ever been around me and notice that I don't react to something said immediately, or if I ask you to repeat something and then say never mind, here's why. When it's first heard, all I hear are garbled sounds. Sometimes it takes as long as 20 seconds for my brain to sort out the sounds into coherent words. Sometimes, my brain doesn't process it beyond the garbles and I wind up asking people to repeat things they've said. I hate this because it makes me slow and seem to be more naive than I am and some take it as though I'm not really paying attention to them. It wouldn't be so bad if this were something that only happened once in a while, but it's pretty much a constant thing with me.
Also, been having lots of weird dreams of late. Friday morning, I kept having waking dreams of the sugar gliders getting out of their cage. In one, I found them outside being attacked by a squirrel. In another, they were running around in the closets. In another, Dave woke up late because his alarm didn't go off, and that one turned out to be sort of a premonition as that actually happened. Other dreams I don't remember after waking.
Not much else going on. Got some other musings, but they're a little more personal.
About the concert last week. Yes, I enjoyed the concert, but maybe I'm just weird but I thought the music was way too loud. I like loud music, but not so loud that you can't make out what's being said or sung. Maybe it's just my odd sense of hearing or the fact that things said sometimes take a moment for my brain to decipher it. Not real sure, all I know is that the volume on everything was turned up so loud that I only made out about half of the spoken words and the only songs I picked out lyrics to where the ones that I already knew. Wish I'd had my ear plugs with me. Then, maybe, I'd have been able to understand things a bit better. Yes, I did pick out the beats and most of the music, but with the ear plugs I'd have been able to make out the lyrics as well and so much of it would not have become so much loud white noise or static to my brain.
Yes, for those of you who didn't realize it, I do seem to have a problem with my hearing that regular hearing tests don't detect. Most hearing tests check only to see if you can hear certain tones. They do not test to see how well your brain processes what you hear. If you've ever been around me and notice that I don't react to something said immediately, or if I ask you to repeat something and then say never mind, here's why. When it's first heard, all I hear are garbled sounds. Sometimes it takes as long as 20 seconds for my brain to sort out the sounds into coherent words. Sometimes, my brain doesn't process it beyond the garbles and I wind up asking people to repeat things they've said. I hate this because it makes me slow and seem to be more naive than I am and some take it as though I'm not really paying attention to them. It wouldn't be so bad if this were something that only happened once in a while, but it's pretty much a constant thing with me.
Also, been having lots of weird dreams of late. Friday morning, I kept having waking dreams of the sugar gliders getting out of their cage. In one, I found them outside being attacked by a squirrel. In another, they were running around in the closets. In another, Dave woke up late because his alarm didn't go off, and that one turned out to be sort of a premonition as that actually happened. Other dreams I don't remember after waking.
Not much else going on. Got some other musings, but they're a little more personal.
