Losing our perception of hearing in this world of audio visual....

This is a very good discussion to which I can relate myself very much.You have taken me to the days of Amin Sayani and the BBC radio crime series to which I was an addict.Even now I always find a great difference between hearing a song in my car stereo and watching it in television.We definitely loose the nuances of the audio on TV and are distracted by many visual elements that kill the soul of the song. Thanks for giving me a chance to pour out what was nagging me for quite some time.

There are many aspects to this Mimpi. Firstly the fact that we are bombarded by sound pollution everyday, the noise of traffic,horns,people and the digital sounds of the mobile phones and the long perod of our using them. Also with the oncoming of digital sound, the true sense of music seems to be getting lost and we seem to be unable to audibly distinguish and recognise the same. Secondly is the fact that we the pace of life itself has increased, the tensions, the stresses, so much to be done in life. Our priorities ou preoccupations all seem to distract us from really relaxing in the ways we used to. Further as age comes so does responsibilites which also adds to it. We do seem to be loosing that perception and you will notice how different things are when you are in the surroundings of nature over a period of time. It is scary and the more we adopt to the city life and trying to cope up with the modern technolgy and age the more i feel our perceptibility and senses may deteriorate. As long as your discussion may seem, it's most apt and a great one. Thanks

I think losing these perceptions depend on so many things.talking to cell phone is also one reason. I think many articles say so.

Heya, I do think that humans are generally inclined to visually learn things. We learn faster that way. Like the saying goes "To see is to believe" and when we see things we believe that it exists. We see the shape, texture, form, just the overall physical appearance of things. On the other hand when we hear things, it might be associated to be just in our heads and in our imagination. To people, seeing things has more credibility than hearing things. But yes, I do agree with you that the more multimedia develops especially in the favor of more realistic visuals, the audio component of the experience might be shut off to a degree. We would be more preoccupied in scrutinizing every detail of the things that we see and not minding what sound it can make. I guess it just is more of a distraction of the things that we really need to focus on visually or auditory.

Hmmmm, I haven't really noticed not hearing things. I am the one in the house who hears the tiniest little thing, even when there are tons of noises going on around me. I LIKE hearing, so I make a point to listen to music, and actually hear it, the lyrics, the different instruments in it, etc. I listen for birds when I go outside. Heck I even listen for airplanes. I guess it makes me more secure in my world when I listen carefully and hear the normal everyday sounds around me.

I haven't given this much thought. But yes, for some phone calls and even actual conversations, my attention tends to drift. I don't know why. I know I was good at focusing on one thing when I was younger. Anyway, I still like to stay in my room and just turn the music on and just listen. That relaxes me. But if it's oral or verbal or without any kind of music, I probably would not stay in that room for a long time. It is a scary thought.

i do seem to be able to concentraate less nowadays.previously,i could finish reading a chapter of a book within half an hour.now the same thing takes about an hour.also i need perfect quietness,to concentrate on any job.i thought maybe my kids cacophony maybe the cause of this.also one has to admit that,one cannot be as carefree as one was in their teenage years.now there are lot of responsibilities(previously also it was there but they could be shared due to nuclear family)now times have changed and also their are lot of tensions now like the economic crises,terrorism etc.all these may be contributing factors.

You are correct Mimpi, In this fast paced world.. no matter how hard we try to live a calm life,i mean, tend to outsmart this world..but it ends.. only.. in " Okay next..Okay next.., what next.. we hardly think.. Mimpi, leave alone the subject of passionate hearing.. the habits of even reading books.. newspapers has lost its significance.. To be frank with you,friend.. even in reading this long discussion i have no passion to read it to the core.. just grazed over it.. and started responding... Take care friend.

I had to make some business phone calls this morning and through extreme luck I managed to get two really good service reps in a row. They spoke flawless English and spoke slowly in a modulated tone so that it was easy to understand them and pleasant, too. I remarked on it and gave an example of what I had been expecting: "What do YOU want? We don't DO that! Mrrrumblllll Grrr Growl!" It was so refreshing. Sometimes the people on the phone try to make me feel lik there is something wrong with my hearing when actually they are not being at all articulate. Sometimes it seems hardly anyone concentrates anymore, and then we get a couple of good people and everything is OK again :-)