Background noise
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you. -
First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.Crickets are okay, but only when I feel like they’re okay.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I alternate back and forth all day long.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I used to get really annoyed by noises that were out of my control, but after years of meditation practice, I learned to accept them (among other things) and am a much happier person. Just remember that these parts of you aren't fixed and can change if you want them to, or sometimes totally unintentionally.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I am wagnetic.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.sometimes when I feel really agitated I remember to try turning off the music/podcast and go "ooooh so that was it" even though 2 hours ago I absolutely needed that music/podcast to not lose the entirety of my shit
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.Mostly the former, but occasionally the latter if I can’t control the latter noise.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I don't know why, but someone speaking in the background in a language I don't speak drives me insane. It doesn't have to be loud, I don't have to be trying to concentrate on anything especially hard, but if it doesn't stop after a couple of minutes, I basically just have to go somewhere else.
No idea why. I don't think it is any subtle racism, because it's every language. It's like my brain won't let go of trying to understand, and keeps wanting to notify me that it's having trouble and needs my help with it.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.Music in headphones: good
A show I picked by am not really watching: good
A conversation I am not part of: I WILL MURDER YOU ALL WITH A SAFETY PIN -
First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I should get that diagnosis.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.The second one but my wife is the first one…
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I don't know why, but someone speaking in the background in a language I don't speak drives me insane. It doesn't have to be loud, I don't have to be trying to concentrate on anything especially hard, but if it doesn't stop after a couple of minutes, I basically just have to go somewhere else.
No idea why. I don't think it is any subtle racism, because it's every language. It's like my brain won't let go of trying to understand, and keeps wanting to notify me that it's having trouble and needs my help with it.
I've heard that we hate having to hear people talking on the phone because of how jarring it is to only hear half a conversation. It sounds like you're experiencing something similar where you can't quite make out what's happening, and that keeps pulling it into the foreground of your attention.
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I don't know why, but someone speaking in the background in a language I don't speak drives me insane. It doesn't have to be loud, I don't have to be trying to concentrate on anything especially hard, but if it doesn't stop after a couple of minutes, I basically just have to go somewhere else.
No idea why. I don't think it is any subtle racism, because it's every language. It's like my brain won't let go of trying to understand, and keeps wanting to notify me that it's having trouble and needs my help with it.
That would make sense, your brain definitely is trying to make sense of it because syllables, sentences, vocal emotion, etc are all there, so there are certainly patterns that can be picked up on, but none of it matches the existing language centers you have.
As to why you might get more frustrated than others about it, who knows, brains are weird and I’m not a neuroscientist
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I can't have anything going on in the background with speaking/singing, otherwise I'll post too much attention to it.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.wrote last edited by [email protected]I prefer the sound of silence.
I don’t mean the song but I’m also fine with the song (it gives me Frission every time I hear it, so it gets a pass.)
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That would make sense, your brain definitely is trying to make sense of it because syllables, sentences, vocal emotion, etc are all there, so there are certainly patterns that can be picked up on, but none of it matches the existing language centers you have.
As to why you might get more frustrated than others about it, who knows, brains are weird and I’m not a neuroscientist
Alternating languages kind of makes me insane. I have to try even harder to understand it, and often it can even take me a minute to figure out what the language is, even if it is my native language.
Minute isn't exaggeration. Many times I've been listening to some "foreign language" for a while until it finally clicked, "Oh, that's Slovak, my native language."
If this is in movies I just prefer single-language subtitles.I would describe it as my brain having to switch languages on-demand rather than just catching on.
But for background this is fine. Today the Hungarian I was hearing from ceiling speakers at work didn't bother me, just background noise, only when it didn't make sense it clicked that it's Slovak, again. Quite different even. But when I unfocused it sounded like the same speech junk.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.I like music. In silence there is almost always something else, far more distracting. A faint conversation my brain wants to listen to, music, just background noise.
I also tried noise generators at some point, but that was weird. White noise is annoying as fuck. Brown noise was better, but it made me sweat a lot when I kept it on, and just added some stress.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.Hey, that's me! When I go to the water park, I accept their music, when I go camping, I wanna take an axe to the RV of anyone with a speaker outside. I have one but I keep it low enough that I have to be within 10 ft to even hear it, 5 ft to understand it.
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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.What if the background noise is in fact a series of overlapping, never-ending streams of thoughts in your own head?
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Music in headphones: good
A show I picked by am not really watching: good
A conversation I am not part of: I WILL MURDER YOU ALL WITH A SAFETY PINDang you must be a good surgeon, I would think it would take mad skills to kill with a safety pin.
