Everything you perceive is filtered through your brain and post processed into something you can figure out. Your brain is altering everything you experience.
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Sometimes in fiction someone hears someone say a thing in another language and they repeat the thing they heard to a speaker and they discover oh, wow, it’s an amazing clue! And this is very, very unlikely to happen because your brain would be an asshole about it.
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There’s a staticky version of someone saying both, overlaid, and your brain is trying to figure out what’s signal and what’s noise. So it filters out the noise. Sometimes it’s filtering out the staticky “brainstorm” and sometimes it’s the “green needle.”
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Most people filter out a LOT of static and just don’t realize it. That’s how we can understand each other in loud and crowded places with a lot of ambient noise. My brain is not great at filtering, to the extent I thought I had bad hearing for a while.
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But I got tested and my hearing is great! I‘m just really bad at filtering.
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I am a huge, gigantic introvert no matter what, but one of the things I learned is that the reason I often get exhausted in crowds isn’t the crowds—it’s the cognitive load of trying to understand what’s going on with all the noise.
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Replying to @courtneymilan
I am also very bad at filtering, as is my mom. Our hearing is great, mine is actually incredibly sensitive. But if there is other noise happening or I’m not paying attention then people speaking will sound totally garbled. I hate socialising because of this.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I like one-on-ones or small groups, but large groups are just a noise bomb, and people expect me to pay attention and hear what’s going on. :(
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Replying to @courtneymilan
Yeah one on one is okay or maybe two or three but when it’s large groups and music and ambient noise it is a total nightmare.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @courtneymilan
My mom was told when she got tested was that it’s a neurological thing where the sound doesn’t convert properly to signals in the brain, but that it’s something that a lot of people have. For me, it manifests also when I listen to things on my headphones.
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Meaning that when I watch stuff on my headphones or listen to music I am unable to hear anything in the background for some reason, like if someone was calling my name. Even on really low volume.
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