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ARGH!

Friday 23rd June

My incoming noise filter doesn’t work. I believe that most people can filter the sounds they want to hear from the sounds they don’t want to hear.

I don’t know if it’s working in audio, or my penchant for languages, but when there are three different conversations going on in the room, my brain tries to listen and parse all of them simultaneously. It is so tiring. That’s mostly why I hate busy pubs, and will always where possible go for a single-conversation meeting in a small quiet pub.

Anyone know if it’s something I can learn? Does everyone suffer with it, and I’m just being mardy? Argh! Overstimulation! Make it stop!

Written by stu

June 23rd, 2006 at 11:02 am

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  1. My ears seem to be able to work independently so I can cope with overhearing two conversations at once - if I have to add to either of them I get lost because that involves a third section. I don’t work in audio so haven’t got that reason, but I do like language … but if truth be told it’s because I’m nosy curious.

    JG

    23 Jun 06 at 11:45 am

  2. Mardy? What’s that then?

    Rich

    23 Jun 06 at 11:57 am

  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardy

    stu

    23 Jun 06 at 12:31 pm

  4. I understood mardy. Does that mean I’m not as posh as Rich? :)

    Mort

    23 Jun 06 at 12:54 pm

  5. I find it hard to listen to conversations in groups of people too, and I think it’s because I’m also nosy..oops sorry, that should be curious ;-) I tend to drift in and out of the various conversations going on unless there is a particular one I’m finding interesting.

    Kate

    23 Jun 06 at 12:57 pm

  6. Rich is a southern jessie who doesnt know what mardy means;-)
    But you are right. It is really hard having one conversation across another one.

    Lordhutton

    23 Jun 06 at 1:54 pm

  7. I think working in audio is part of it: You’ve trained yourself to override the filtering process that most people have, so you hear what’s really there. Most people don’t see what’s really there either, but as part of your photography you’ll have been training yourself to overcome that one. Maybe the two are connected?

    And I know what mardy means ;-)

    Gottle

    23 Jun 06 at 1:59 pm

  8. You reguard everyone as equal, so you feel the need to listen to everyone, so that no-one is ignored. If that’s the case, then you’ll probably find that you’re the person who tends to notice when someone’s trying to get a word in, but is being ignored.

    Duncan

    23 Jun 06 at 10:36 pm

  9. i drive myself nuts doing that as well :D

    boo

    24 Jun 06 at 5:45 am

  10. It’s inherited - I am exactly the same. I blame my family when 3 sisters, 2 aunties and a mother all talked simultaneously at ‘weaving mill’ volume (check your ‘up North’ ancestry) I used to go under the table and hold my ears and scream inside - I still do!!!

    Pops

    24 Jun 06 at 1:47 pm

  11. I do it too. I also find it hard to hear one conversation over a lot of background noise of any type. It makes me hate noisy pubs too- I don’t hate them because I’m a grumpy old git at all.

    chrisb

    1 Jul 06 at 5:28 pm

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