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By the way, you're wrong, it doesn't make noise.
Sure you don't want to phone a friend???
I'm just laughing because it's comedy, ok.
I'm just laughing because it's comedy, ok.
That's witch-hunt!
Is it logical to play me a sound recording to prove the tree makes a sound when it falls?
Are you experiencing a blind spot trying to convince me that I can hear the sound for myself?
Is it my fault that I can't hear, or your fault that you can't think of a way to prove to me that that the tree made a noise when it fell?
What do you need to do to convince me?
But since we're talking about them
Do you know every time a tree falls down, we have one less in the world.. FACT
Is it logical to play me a sound recording to prove the tree makes a sound when it falls?
Are you experiencing a blind spot trying to convince me that I can hear the sound for myself?
Is it my fault that I can't hear, or your fault that you can't think of a way to prove to me that that the tree made a noise when it fell?
What do you need to do to convince me?
When a tall tree falls, the air around it is displaced and it makes a sound as it hits the ground. Also... you can feel the earth move under your feet. A good word to describe this is thud.
With technology, there are sound pressure meters that register (in decibels) how loud a sound is. If you have a cellphone, activate the voice recorder application and speak into the microphone. There is a visualization of the recorded sound. Faint sounds only move a little and louder sounds the graph.
The image below shows both frequency with low notes at the left side and loudness where the taller bars are louder.
If you've been in a venue where they play loud music, you can feel the pulsations from the music. The bass having the most affect.
But since we're talking about them
Do you know every time a tree falls down, we have one less in the world.. FACT
I've seen videos where huge machines cut and strip tall pine trees in logging operations. The world needs a constant supply of lumber.
I knew a guy who frequented a chat room. He was born with some hearing impairment and doctors told him he would be totally deaf by the time he reached adulthood.
They were correct.
He had gone to a college for the deaf where he met a woman who was born totally deaf. They married and he became a farmer, she was a housewife and assisted him in farming.
Some of the 'sound teaching' for the deaf was to blow up a balloon, hold it in your hands near your mouth and speak sounds. You can feel the vibrations through your fingers.
Lots of adjustments to be made. Vibrating alarm clocks or flashing lights because a ringing bell wouldn't be heard.
In a modern world there are many hazards in the environment that your awareness to your surrounding must be acute or you could suffer consequences. Stepping off a curb to cross a road and not hearing oncoming traffic from around the corner for example.
I would expect you have been trained for things like this.
When I first had access to a hearing aid, I kept getting vivid flashbacks to my childhood just from hearing rain on an umbrella, or paper scrunching. It was delightful, but noise messed with my tinnitus and my usual positive mental attitude towards it.
My guess is that I've been losing my hearing very gradually for most of my life, so I've just adapted. If I'm crossing the road and my sinuses start feeling like a swarm of tiny bees have been let loose in them, my head starts whipping round to find the car that's appeared out of nowhere. Seeing graphs of my hearing and having a hearing aid to play with have allowed me to understand my hearing and become aware of my coping strategies.
My hearing is different in each ear, so my biggest problem is never having adapted to where sound is coming from and being able to identify sounds. Is my neighbour in the flat below me doing some kind of DIY on their ceiling, or is someone from the flat next door walking around in their attic? It turns out, so another neighbour told me, Jackdaws like nesting in my attic. Three years of confusion sound laid to rest.
So, in the noisy pharmacy she gave me a simple test, but I could see what both her right and left hand were doing on the buzzers, so I could scarcely stop myself from laughing - I told her she should at least shield her hands from view, and tried to avert my eyes, but still hard not to giggle. Of course they were touting for business by offering free tests in a pharmacy... In the high frequencies my hearing is distinctly sub-optimal, but I still speak with headphones online 5 hours a day.
I sobbed fairly uncontrollably through the middle 15 minutes because it was such a profound communication experience.
Thank you.
Another TED talk I sometimes use with my students along with the Glennie talk. My daughter, as it happens plays theremin too, a weird instrument where body movement, apart from hands, is out of the question.
So, in the noisy pharmacy she gave me a simple test, but I could see what both her right and left hand were doing on the buzzers, so I could scarcely stop myself from laughing - I told her she should at least shield her hands from view, and tried to avert my eyes, but still hard not to giggle. Of course they were touting for business by offering free tests in a pharmacy... In the high frequencies my hearing is distinctly sub-optimal, but I still speak with headphones online 5 hours a day.
I'd have to look up an old blog where I mentioned it. jac had made some comments there.
I've thought about getting something more sophisticated, but the conventional way of 'making things better' isn't always the best way for everyone. It's a bit like Thalidomide children being forced to wear prosthetics because parents and doctors felt better about them being more normal. The children often felt disabled by the cumbersome, non-tactile contraptions and in perilous danger, but not necessarily by their own bodies. Their bodies are their normal.
I'm good with my normal. It gives me a different perspective that I enjoy. You wouldn't have inspired me to a different way of listening to other people's opinions had I been reading this blog without my deafness.
Fargo would never have been inspired to show me that Ted Talk.
Just in the last few hours I've gained so much from being deaf. I can't even begin to express the complexity of my new insights from this blog, but it outweighs any hearing losses by far.
Mine is tinnitus, they say that is a prelude to hearing loss??? mine competes with noise, it hisses louder when noise tries to drown it out
I've been told by an audiology nurse that tinnitus doesn't affect your hearing and doesn't compete with other noise. I have always been confused by that claim because it's not my experience, either.
I've had 2 ENT specialists tell me tinnitus doesn't start with the ears, it's where the nerves connected to the brain that causes all the 'hissing' sounds. I say hissing because ringing is only sometimes. If I'm around some really loud noises hissing overcomes the ringing.
Monday, I was on a jobsite where they were doing demolition and banging on metal studs to remove a wall. I was unprepared and didn't have earplugs. Hopefully some of the roar will subside.
I've had 2 ENT specialists tell me tinnitus doesn't start with the ears, it's where the nerves connected to the brain that causes all the 'hissing' sounds. I say hissing because ringing is only sometimes. If I'm around some really loud noises hissing overcomes the ringing.
Monday, I was on a jobsite where they were doing demolition and banging on metal studs to remove a wall. I was unprepared and didn't have earplugs. Hopefully some of the roar will subside.
She wasn't hearing impaired herself and she could empathise to a certain extent because she was visually impaired, but I came away thinking she must be trying some placebo shit on me, thinking I was disturbed by my tinnitus. I find the more I have come to understand my sense of hearing, the easier and more fun it is to navigate it.
I'm sorry to hear about your roaring. I find the intermittent and temporary noises far more annoying than than the constant ones.
Maybe 90, aye?
Do you know why?
I'm not sure if you can buy aspirin in the UK again. It was taken off the market about 30 years ago because of problems with intestinal bleeding. For a long time it was only prescribed in low doses for angina, or something of the like.
I certainly haven't had any since trying (rather unsuccessfully) to gargle with it as a small child because of chronic ENT infections.
It's been used as a first line of defense to treat heart attack.
In the USA, it's commonly obtained without a prescription in pill or capsule form as high a dosage as 500mg.
1,000mg will knock out a migraine so it doesn't soon return.
I believe what happens is Aspirin dilates the blood vessels and that could be the reason for ringing in the ears side effect when taking large doses.
Low dose under 100mg daily is recommended by the FDA as heart attack preventative.
It's been used as a first line of defense to treat heart attack.
In the USA, it's commonly obtained without a prescription in pill or capsule form as high a dosage as 500mg.
1,000mg will knock out a migraine so it doesn't soon return.
I believe what happens is Aspirin dilates the blood vessels and that could be the reason for ringing in the ears side effect when taking large doses.
Low dose under 100mg daily is recommended by the FDA as heart attack preventative.
Now you've reminded me, the 'mini' aspirin for angina is 75mg.
I don't get why dilating blood vessels would increase tinnitus, but I'll take your word for it. I think trying to google how that mechanism works might be a bit of a tall order.
Thanks for the detail and explanation.