blastoff wrote:
Noise not only affects my stress level, it affects my functioning level. I absolutely cannot deal with background noise if I'm trying to think, talk, or listen. It's not really the volume of noise, but the number of different noises that's the problem. Work is sometimes difficult. If someone's on the phone and two people are having a conversation and there's music playing and someone walks by my cubicle and the printer's going and someone outside starts their car, it's just too much and my brain shuts down. If someone tries to talk to me, it's as if I can't even "hear" them. I mean, I can hear the words, but I can't attend to what they're saying.
Yes! I think that's where the stress comes from. Too much to process. I have nothing on now and although there's noise I can tune it out because it's a constant low hum. There's a story about experimental musician John Cage, that he wanted to experience a total absence of sound. So he went somewhere and was placed in a sound proof booth. He said after wards that he could hear a low pitched sound and a high pitched sound and they told him it was the sound his own body was making. Apparently the high pitched sound is your nervous system.
28 Nov 2009, 7:39 am
