No touch, physically stopping noise - Can you?
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Not sure how to word this one. It's it a Health thing... maybe.
Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
A Harrier jump jet once hovered over my head at the British Grand Prix a few years back. It was so loud and violent that it set all the car alarms off in the car park behind us, and it really felt like my ears gave up, waved a white flag and retreated inside my head.
(it was awesome
)
(it was awesome
)durbster said:
A Harrier jump jet once hovered over my head at the British Grand Prix a few years back. It was so loud and violent that it set all the car alarms off in the car park behind us, and it really felt like my ears gave up, waved a white flag and retreated inside my head.
(it was awesome)
I don’t think people realise how loud they are until you have seen one do a display. First time seeing one at Waddingtion early 2000s and it was so loud it made my chest shake and actually scared me ( was about 6 at the time ).(it was awesome
)Regarding blanking noise out I think personally you can to some degree.
EmailAddress said:
Not sure how to word this one. It's it a Health thing... maybe.
Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
Not sure how to explain this (or if everyone can do it) but if I sort of tense, I can hear a 'whooshing' noise that limits external sound. It only happens temporarily. Is this the sort of thing you mean?Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
EmailAddress said:
Not sure how to word this one. It's it a Health thing... maybe.
Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
I doubt you can stop the physical input, the soundwaves / air pressure or any damage to your eardrum. Your brain can switch off your perception of pain and some people can zone out fairly easily when they need to. The scrunching thing is anticipation of forthcoming pain rather than pain management isn't it?Are you able to (without interacting with yourself i.e hands, fingers, external input) stop or restrict noise/ sound entering your ears?
Are humans able?
When there's a loud noise and you do the scrunching thing (vocabulary fail), is that actually restricting soundwaves, or is your mind blanking it out?
Do our ears or minds have a failsafe mode, like a fuse before damage occurs?
durbster said:
A Harrier jump jet once hovered over my head at the British Grand Prix a few years back. It was so loud and violent that it set all the car alarms off in the car park behind us, and it really felt like my ears gave up, waved a white flag and retreated inside my head.
(it was awesome)
As an a/c owner at Biggin Hill I was able to get pretty close to the Vulcan taking off at one of the airshows. Never heard a noise like it(it was awesome
)DorsetSparky said:
Not sure how to explain this (or if everyone can do it) but if I sort of tense, I can hear a 'whooshing' noise that limits external sound. It only happens temporarily. Is this the sort of thing you mean?
This. Puckering your earholes!
Regarding Harriers. A truly epic sound. Gods of thunder.
durbster said:
A Harrier jump jet once hovered over my head at the British Grand Prix a few years back. It was so loud and violent that it set all the car alarms off in the car park behind us, and it really felt like my ears gave up, waved a white flag and retreated inside my head.
(it was awesome)
Oh bloodyhell, I remember that happening to me. Was at the Superbikes at Brands Hatch one summer and there was a Harrier display during one of the breaks. JEEEEZus that was loud. I was way too close while the thing was hovering !(it was awesome
)mikef said:
As an a/c owner at Biggin Hill I was able to get pretty close to the Vulcan taking off at one of the airshows. Never heard a noise like it
I remember being at Biggin Hill and seeing the Vulcan take off into a vertical climb (as I remember it - think it was c50 years ago now?). The ground shook and so did everyone and everything in the area. Incredible!seabod91 said:
I don’t think people realise how loud they are until you have seen one do a display. First time seeing one at Waddingtion early 2000s and it was so loud it made my chest shake and actually scared me ( was about 6 at the time )
Aye, I was at Farnborough Air Show in (I think) 1985 and witnessed a F15 taking off. I can attest to the chest-shaking thing!
Some years back I attended a Nationals Championship dragster event in the States, I was lucky enough to be trackside and near the start line.
Those dragsters have more horsepower than the first six rows of a F1 grid, and there’s 2 of them taking off at the same time.
I felt like I had been assaulted and that was with ear defenders, my internal organs were shaken.
I don’t think you can protect your hearing by bracing for it, perhaps you just prepare your senses for the noise.
Those dragsters have more horsepower than the first six rows of a F1 grid, and there’s 2 of them taking off at the same time.
I felt like I had been assaulted and that was with ear defenders, my internal organs were shaken.
I don’t think you can protect your hearing by bracing for it, perhaps you just prepare your senses for the noise.
I’ve woken up once on a flight and I was completely deaf for about 5 seconds, it’s almost as if my brain had switched my hearing off during my sleep and it took a few seconds to switch back on after I had woken.
To be honest I was as pissed as a mattress so that might have had something to do with it.
To be honest I was as pissed as a mattress so that might have had something to do with it.
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