mobobuff
Lifer
- Apr 5, 2004
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Would anything relating to that explain why, in near complete silence, an audible yet very quiet high pitched noise can be heard when a person approaches your proximity but you aren't visually aware of their presence?
Also, what is the sound of complete silence? Say you're sitting in a sealed room far underground, nothing is around to be making noise, but you can still hear fuzz, and you can even draw patterns from the modulations in the sounds... there's still perceptable background noise. Or could this just be explained by the inefficiency of human ears and auditory system?
Perhaps, when a person nears your proximity, something relatively subconcious says "I detect a presence" and then proceeds to boost auditory preception? So much like the noise emitted by a guitar amplifier when the volume is maxed yet no input is defined, you hear a fuzzy tone? But this wouldn't explain patterns in the noise.
Also, what is the sound of complete silence? Say you're sitting in a sealed room far underground, nothing is around to be making noise, but you can still hear fuzz, and you can even draw patterns from the modulations in the sounds... there's still perceptable background noise. Or could this just be explained by the inefficiency of human ears and auditory system?
Perhaps, when a person nears your proximity, something relatively subconcious says "I detect a presence" and then proceeds to boost auditory preception? So much like the noise emitted by a guitar amplifier when the volume is maxed yet no input is defined, you hear a fuzzy tone? But this wouldn't explain patterns in the noise.