Our son Ben has made piano his instrument. He's the piano player for his middle school jazz band. The result is that I hear a few pieces over and over. Practice is essential to get it right. The fallout is that I get to hear those musical themes enough that they become part of my dreams at night.I have a difficult time filtering music out of my consciousness. It's front-and-center, whether I like it or not.
What noise is there in your life and how do you deal with it?
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white noise. I find white noise.
but not often enough.
No matter how quiet music is when I hear it, I strain to listen. I guess I just need music. My wife tunes it out, and doesn't realize it is playing, or at least has no idea what is playing.
An Arkie's Musings
What you might call beautiful music in your house is still often noise in ours--oboe! Kristen is doing really well, but there is the occasional scary note.
I like quiet. I work with only quiet on nearly every day. I love my music, too, but it usually distracts me from actual work.
I love quiet too. I love (some kinds of) music - but only when I can give it my attention.
And my wife is much better at filtering out music than I am, too!
I'm much better at filtering out music that really drives me nuts than I am music I like or know well. If I like it, my brain keeps wandering back to it, wanting to tune into it, no matter what else I need to focus on. Whereas, if it's annoying, my brain just decides it doesn't want to hear it, so it shuts it out. I can usually do that with kid noises unless it escalates to arguing.
Also, I find that I and the other people who share my MBTI "S" tendency seem to have an easier time blocking out background noise, than the "N"s I know. I don't know if there is anytyhing to that, or if it's just coincidence among my friends.
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