10th January 2003, 5:09 PM
I gotta wonder if that could cause your hearing to become less sensitive. I don't think it's too loud or anything, as you didn't mention volume, but when I have total silence to listen to (okay, I never hear total silence, because I have this glitch with my hearing that causes me to constantly percieve a high pitched "eee" right at the upper edge of human hearing), my hearing becomes very sharp. After listening to the TV or a little music, the sensitivity drops for a while. You know, silence is golden and all that rot. It's the same reason I sometimes just close my eyes for a bit, so I don't have to see things all the frickin' time I'm awake.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)